Creating a Joomla! Module Position to appear in the Content area of your Joomla! site

The front end contents of a Joomla! site are comprised of "content" and "modules". Modules usually appear as side blocks of information to the left or right of the main "content" area. EasySSP is a module. So how do we make it so that EasySSP will appear in the main content area? The answer differs depending on which version of Joomla! you are using.

Creating a Module Position in Joomla! 1.0

First, navigate to Mambots>Site Mambots and make sure "Load Module Positions" is published/active. If there is a red "x" beside this Mambot, click it to make the mambot active.

The mambot you just activated will allow you to use a syntax such as "{mosloadposition left}" in your content item(s) in order to render modules. So now, we want to create a custom module position for EasySSP.

Navigate to Site>Template Manager>Module Positions and in one of the blank fields, type "easyssp". We have just created the "easyssp" module position.

Now you can create a content item within a category or a static content item if you prefer, and within the wysiwyg editor box just type {mosloadposition easyssp}. Go back to the Module Manager as described in the second part of step one in the documentation and make sure the EasySSP module is published in the "easyssp" position.

Creating a Module Position in Joomla! 1.5

First, navigate to Extensions>Plugin Manager> and make sure "Content - Load Module" is published/active. If there is a red "x" beside this Plugin, click it to make the plugin active.

The plugin you just activated will allow you to use a syntax such as "{loadposition left}" in your content item(s) in order to render modules. So now, we want to create a custom module position for EasySSP.

To create a module position for EasySSP, you will need to open yourjoomlasite.com/templates/your_current_template/templateDetails.xml. You should see an array of predefined positions such as:

<position>left</position>
<position>right</position>
<position>top</position>

Add this to the array:

<position>easyssp</position>

Save the file and upload. We have just created the "easyssp" module position.

Now you can create a content item within a category or a static content item if you prefer, and within the wysiwyg editor box just type {loadposition easyssp}. Go back to the Module Manager as described in the second part of step one in the documentation and make sure the EasySSP module is published in the "easyssp" position.