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#194714

Hello buddies

I’ve gone through all the questions in this forum and still not sure if my problem is an unique one.

I’ve created a new module and want to put it in a new menu item. The module should be placed on the content position as shown in the attached picture. What should I do next? Thanks!

Ken

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#522341

Hi Ken,

This is an interesting request on adding new position on Smashboard. However, as you know Smashboard is a special template which we just create 2 layouts (Default, Component) to display the Blog Category with infinity scroll and navigation with wheel-scroll.

While we also just define header, mainav, mainbody and footer blocks. So, it will be NOT good idea to add a module position at the place as you want in snapshot. Hope you understand this !

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#522350

The ‘content’ position is used for the articles. You can always load a module within an article using the {loadposition xxx} or {loadmodule yyy} call built into Joomla.

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_put_a_module_inside_an_article%3F

http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/loadposition-loadmodule/

and lots of other help if you google.

Hopefully that will achieve what you want!

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#522352

Hi Swissa

Thanks for your reply. I have tried what you said but I can’t even create a single article and place it at the content position. After I have selected the ‘single article’ as the menu item type, the article was popped out instead of locating like the “category blog”. Please see the attached file for better illustration.

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#522355

When you set up the menü item for this article make sure you set it up like all the other menü items. These are ‘Category Blog’ and then picking off a particular Category. You might want to make a new category and then assign your single article to this. That way it should just pick off the single article with the look you want.

Give it a try and see if that works.

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#522360

Hi Swissa

I have followed your instruction and now I have a new menu item with just one single article in it. How can I edit the css of this single blog without affecting other blogs? e.g. removing the image of the blog and filling the whole block with text? As well as setting the width of the blog as 100%?

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#522363

<em>@skillfulken 410905 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Swissa

I have followed your instruction and now I have a new menu item with just one single article in it. How can I edit the css of this single blog without affecting other blogs? e.g. removing the image of the blog and filling the whole block with text? As well as setting the width of the blog as 100%?</blockquote>

Go to the menü item, go to Advanced Options tab and most probably you can do everything you want there. There are options for the category, the blog layout and the article.

If you need to resort to css then simply add a new suffix for this page and write the css. Not having seen the page or the site or what you are trying to achieve makes it difficult to suggest what css to write!! 🙂

Try the options listed above within the menu item first and remember to do this on a dev site (not a live site) and use Akeeba backup to ensure you can restore if anything goes wrong.

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#522372

Thanks for your nice explanation 🙂

My purpose is placing a new module on the content position by using {loadposition xxx} or {loadmodule yyy}, so I need to make a fit-sized plain blog which just displays text. I have searched all the advanced options but seems no good options there (see the attached picture). I will try to edit the css file :(( Thanks for your kind advice :laugh:

Hi Swissa

How could I locate the single blog “EXACTLY” in the middle of the “main content”? Thanks!

Hi Swissa

The module is successfully loaded from the article, thanks for your wise advice that reduces lot of my workload 🙂

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#522422

Hi Leo

I understand it. I know there are header, mainav, mainbody and footer blocks. So I am not going to create a new position but rather to edit the blog in order to call a module from it. This approach will be much easier for us to extend the uses of this template and I think other users as well will love it very much.

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