Question

Is it possible in Joomla to place a certain article in a template, additionally to the normal content? I want the article to show up on every page.

Answer 1

You can simply take it from the databse and print its content. In the template, where you want to show the article, write this:

$id=/*Id of the article to show*/;
$db=&JFactory::getDBO();
$db->setQuery("SELECT * FROM #__content WHERE id=$id");
$item=$db->loadObject();
echo $item->introtext;

UPDATE: ENABLE PLUGINS

I can’t find where i’ve used that code and i can’t copy-paste it, so i try to write it again by looking at the view.html.php of the com_content:

JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$dispatcher =& JDispatcher::getInstance();
$params = &$mainframe->getParams();
$dispatcher->trigger('onPrepareContent', array (&$item, &$params, 0));
//The last line triggers the onPrepareContent event, so if it does not work maybe you need other events, so try with onAfterDisplayTitle, onBeforeDisplayContent or onAfterDisplayContent