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Joomla! 4 Masterclass

You're reading from   Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238975
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Marzo Luca Marzo
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box
2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content 4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management 5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules 6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System 7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions 8. Part 2: Advanced Features
9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best 10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages 11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks 12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates 13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface 14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website
15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates 16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides 17. Chapter 14: Child Templates 18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks 19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security 20. Part 4: Case Studies
21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla 22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla 23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Module positions and assignments

Modules are considered the most flexible content unit in Joomla, even more than articles, because modules can be placed in specific positions and be assigned to selected pages.

Each module should be assigned to a position. A position is a place in the layout grid in which a module is displayed. Every template has several module positions in which modules can be placed. Depending on the template structure, a position might host one or more modules; we will explore templates and their positions in depth in Chapter 12.

Figure 4.3 – Some of the module positions of the Cassiopeia template

Figure 4.3 – Some of the module positions of the Cassiopeia template

In the preceding figure, you can observe some of the module positions available in the default frontend template of Joomla 4: Cassiopeia. As you can see, each of the positions has a specific name, such as top-a, top-b, sidebar-left, sidebar-right, breadcrumbs, main-top, and main-bottom.

In Figure 4.3, you can also observe that...

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