Hey there. I have a client that would like to have the 3 latest articles advertised in a module when the user is viewing an article. But she doesn't want it on the category view.

 

How can I do that?

 

btw, I've tried using "item navigation" which shows next and previous items... not what she wants. I've also thought of showing related items by tag, but that won't work because it will bring in items from other categories.

 

tl:dr how can I show a module on a item view without it appearing in a category view?

OK. Nobody replied, but I think I figured out how to do this (thanks to this thread: forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1793337)

Now, how can I get this module to appear above the Disqus comments? Disqus appears to be part of the article, so I can't put a module position in-between the article contents and Disqus.

Suggestions?

Hi geoff mack,

 

Maybe use the {loadposition moduleposition} at the end of your article ? The easiest way :) see here

Thanks Kannan. I thought about that. But that's not really going to work unless I can make it automatic. This client has several writers publishing up to 10 articles per day. Making them add this code to the end of every article seems a bit much.

 

I'm wondering if there's some way to sneak something into item.php to load a module. When I tried it, I put the load position code in there but it doesn't render the module... it just shows up as text.

No, you can't add loadposition syntax into item.php. You can get more info from this thread in K2 and forum post in Joomla.