How to show a module in Joomla when it's not a Menu item

Question

I am trying to show a module, but the article I want to show the module on is not linked to a menu item. Is this possible? Seems like a module can only show when it is a menu item. But I have a ton of articles that are not menu items - so what is easiest way to show the module? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Step 1: On the front end of your website, click to the specific article that you want, highlight and copy the URL.

Step 2: Create a menu item, item type is URL and paste your article URL in there. (You can have the menu item be in an unpublished menu i think)

Step 3: Select it from the Menu Items list in the module.

Answer 2

The way to do this is as follows.

Let's suppose you have a group of articles that you wish to all display the same modules on.

(1) Create a new category using the "category manager" option from the content menu

(2) Ensure all the articles are published into this same category.

(3) Create a new menu which you won't actually ever display anywhere (I like to publish the menu into a module position which is not present in the template)

(4) Add a category blog layout option to this new menu

(5) Now go through each of the modules that you wish to display for the group and add them to the new menu item you have created.

Hope this helps!