#42 - How to find your Joomla 1.6 Template Positions

Today a nice handy tip, straight from the horse's mouth (the Joomla community team). Sometimes, you need to know which are the positions currently being used by your template. You can do this either by checking out the Module Manager in the administrator, i.e. viewing the positions which have modules assigned to them, or else use this tip.

Joomla 1.6

On Joomla 1.5 , we used to just add tp=1 to the index.php url and we were able to view all the module positions on the frontend template. But on Joomla 1.6 you need to perform an additional step before this works correctly

In order to see the Module Positions on the template on Joomla 1.6 , here is what you have to do :

Goto :

Administrator --> Template Manager -->Options  --> Templates Tab --> Preview Module Positions .

Just ENABLE IT.

Now you can type "index.php?tp=1" on your frontend and you can see all of your module positions.

So to view the module positions will be :

http://www.domain.com/index.php?tp=1 

Joomla 1.5 

To activate this function you just need to add ?tp=1 to the end of your current Joomla address. As an example take a look at the following link: http://www.dart-creations.com?tp=1 As you can see, you can know see all the positions which are template makes use of. You can use this on any Joomla version, on any Joomla site and on any Joomla page (though you might need to use &tp=1). The following parameters can be used: 

• ?tp=1 (for horizontal view)
• ?tp=-1 (for no wrapper niew)
• ?tp=0 (for normal view - no view of positions)