By default, Joomla can only assign modules to any page that has a “Menu Item” linked to it. MetaMod completely removes this restriction, allowing you to place modules on any page, at any time, to whoever, from wherever you want!

• set module start and end dates, or recurring start and stop dates and times (great for radio/TV stations)
• show/hide modules on individual article pages, or any article in a particular section or category
• show/hide modules for individual users, guests, logged-in users, or any user group
• show/hide modules based on the user’s web browser (e.g. show one module for IE users, and another for any other browser)
• show/hide modules based on site language or the language of a user’s browser
• control modules on individual sub-pages of many Joomla components, such as VirtueMart, SOBI2, MyBlog, CommunityBuilder, JReviews and many others!
• GeoIP-based selection: select based on the user’s country, state or city, based on MaxMind GeoIP location

By default, Joomla can only assign templates to any page that has a “Menu Item” linked to it. MetaTemplate completely removes this restriction, allowing you to assign a different template to any page, at any time, for whoever, from wherever you want!

• set template start and end dates, or recurring start and stop dates and times (great for radio/TV stations)
• switch template on individual article pages, or any article in a particular section or category
• switch template for individual users, guests, logged-in users, or any user group
• switch template based on the user’s web browser (e.g. show one template for IE users, and another for any other browser or bot)
• switch template based on site language or the language of a user’s browser
• switch template on individual sub-pages of many Joomla components
• GeoIP-based selection: switch template based on the user’s country, state or city, based on MaxMind GeoIP location

Why? MetaMod is a module-within-a-module solution. Empty MetaMods (where MetaMod decides not to include any other modules) can cause layout issues on the page, because some HTML is usually output even for “empty” modules.

MetaMod Pro prevents this from occurring by completely removing all traces of the MetaMod “wrapper” module from the HTML output. Empty Mods will no longer cause your template to reserve left/right column space for non-existent modules. Extra HTML can no longer affect the CSS of your page.

Perfect.

MetaTemplate Pro has an advanced interface for configuring most of the “rule conditions” above.

Wave Goodbye to writing PHP rules, say Hello to a friendly form-based interface!

• select users, user groups, articles, sections and categories to include/exclude
• select browsers from a list
• select components from a list, and dates/times from a date picker
• select menus and menu items to include/exclude
• special VirtueMart support - page types, cart contents etc.