Joomla4: How to create new module from backend?
Go to backend (administrator) where you can see there you can see “site” container left side area and within that area you can see boxes of important links like plugins, media, modules etc.
So click on modules and then you will redirect to the module manager and where you can see all defaults modules. If you want to create new default module which are provided by Joomla you can create by click on New Button and then you can see their list of module types so select your required type of module.
There are approx. 24 default modules in Joomla 4. So we can create any type of module from 24 modules.
For example we select Latest Users type which will be display all users list in the front end.
Follow the steps as bellow –
Enter the title of the module
Select the number of users
Enable /Disabled the Filter Groups option = >Yes or No
Select the option at right side Title Show = > Yes or No
Select the position of template like : position-right
Select the option Status at right side => Published/Unpublished
Start Publishing = > This is the option where you can set date to publish you module accordingly.
Finish Publishing => This is the option where you can set date to end the publish module accordingly.
Menu Assignment => Select the menu in which you want to allow to display. There are 4 option in the dropdown as below –
On All pages – if you want to display on all pages or menus
No pages – if you don’t want to display anywhere.
Only on the pages selected - In this option you have to select only those menus where you want to display this module.
On all pages except those selected – if you want to display on all pages except those selected menus.
Advanced – In this tab you can set design of the module like layout of module, you can add the Class of the module, Module Style, Heading Tag, Module Tag, Header Class and Bootstrap size.
In this tab you can also set Cache, So there are 2 options Caching and Cache Time.
Permissions - This is last option of module that we don’t use normally so it set as default. But we can change setting for edit, delete Front-end edit etc.











