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

• set module start and end dates, and recurring time periods
  e.g. great for radio/TV/sports schedules
  
• show/hide modules for particular articles, sections or categories
• show/hide modules for particular users, guests, logged-in users, or any user group
• show/hide modules based on browser type
• show/hide modules based on site or browser language
• control modules on page types within common components
  e.g.VirtueMart, SOBI2, MyBlog, CommunityBuilder, JReviews, K2 and many others!
• GeoIP-based selection
  select based on the user’s country, state or city

With Chameleon, you can switch templates, remove or rename individual menu items, set a different home page, add CSS/JS files, change site language, and perform other actions on any page of your site, at any time, for whoever you want!

• set template start and end dates, and recurring time periods
  e.g. great for radio/TV/sports schedules
• switch template for particular articles, sections or categories (including K2!)
• switch template for particular users, guests, logged-in users, or any user group
• switch template based on browser type
• switch template based on site or browser language
• switch template based on page type
  e.g. article, category, search, contact, K2 or VirtueMart page types
• GeoIP-based selection
  switch based on user’s country/state/city

MetaMod is a free module-within-a-module solution. It can show and hide modules based on all the same rules as MetaMod Pro, but has some layout limitations because of the way modules are placed inside the MetaMod “wrapper” module. Nevertheless, it’s powerful and FREE!

Chameleon Lite can do almost everything that Chameleon can do but requires that you code the rules with basic PHP syntax. Help and examples are available on this site and in the forum.