Joomla 6.2.0. The Quickstart now installs Joomla 6.2.0 (Joomla 6.2.0 release notes), and the template version is now 6.2.0 to match.

Error pages. "Page not found" and "access denied" pages now show inside the template, with its header, menus and footer, and fit a phone screen.

Account pages. The password reset, login and username reminder forms show again when they have no menu item of their own (the home page layout was hiding them).

Phones. The boxed feature text no longer runs off the side of the screen.

Quickstart. A fresh install no longer lists stale update notices.

Quickstart fix. The Quickstart no longer fails to install on MySQL hosts with a "prepared statement protocol" error. Thanks to Iryna for reporting this. The template itself is unchanged apart from its version number.

Joomla 6.1.4. The Quickstart now installs Joomla 6.1.4, a security and bug-fix release (Joomla 6.1.4 release notes), and the template version is now 6.1.4 to match. There are no visual changes. Installing the template update does not update Joomla itself; update Joomla from System → Update → Joomla.

Fix. The login module's "Create an account" link now opens Joomla's registration page when VirtueMart is not installed.

Quickstart. Leftover VirtueMart shop tables and menu links are no longer installed. The "Register" button opens Joomla's registration page.

Fix. After the previous security update, print and email views, popup windows and the VirtueMart checkout step (pages served with tmpl=component) could return an error page. The template's component.php now defines the escaping helper it uses. There are no visual changes. Please update if you installed the previous version.

Security update. Module, menu and tab titles are now escaped wherever the template writes them into your pages (module headings, title attributes and the mega menu), so a title containing a quote or markup can no longer break out of its place in the page. There are no visual changes. Recommended for all sites.

Security update. Every template setting that is written into your pages is now escaped for the place it lands in (HTML, attributes, CSS and JavaScript), so a setting value can no longer break out of its context. The error page now escapes its message and title too. There are no visual changes. Recommended for all sites.

Fixed a problem where a large logo could fill the whole screen on phones. The stylesheet that keeps this template working with current Joomla was letting the header logo draw at its own full size on small screens instead of scaling it down to fit the space, so a logo wider than the phone screen — common, since logos are usually exported at 1500 pixels or more to stay sharp — pushed the header out and showed visitors a giant close-up of one or two letters instead of the site. Logos now scale down to fit on every screen size, and a logo already small enough to fit is displayed exactly as before. Update the template to pick this up; if you built your site from the Quick Start, a rebuilt one is on your downloads page.

Fixed the built-in homepage slideshow collapsing to a thin strip. This was a template CSS issue in the modernized Swiper slideshow — the slide area lost its height, so the images no longer filled it. Updating to this version restores the slideshow to its full height.

Concern 6.1.3 is a major rebuild — the first release of this template under Cybersalt, and the first that is Joomla 6 native. The design is deliberately unchanged: your layout, colours, fonts and menu choices all carry over. What changed is everything underneath, so that Concern runs cleanly on current Joomla instead of depending on code Joomla has been retiring since version 4.

If you are already running Concern, install the template package over the top — your template settings are preserved and no re-configuration is needed.

Joomla 6 native

• Concern now installs and runs on Joomla 6.1 without Joomla's backward-compatibility plugin. That plugin exists to keep very old extension code working, and Joomla 6 requires it switched off before it will allow the upgrade at all. Templates that still need it leave you stuck: turning it off breaks the site, leaving it on blocks the upgrade. Concern now uses current Joomla APIs throughout and is tested with that plugin disabled.
• The template version matches the Joomla version it is built and tested against — this release is 6.1.3, built for Joomla 6.1.3.

Fixed: the menu was empty on phones

• Tapping the menu button opened an empty panel. The mobile menu is built by copying your real menu into a slide-down drawer, and it was picking up the wrong list — first an invisible one made only of icons, and then, once that was corrected, the small footer menu. Either way the pages you actually navigate by were unreachable on a phone. It now finds the real menu, and Home, Blog, Features and the rest open in a proper accordion.

Modern framework

• Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5. Concern previously shipped Bootstrap 2, which Joomla dropped years ago. The grid, buttons, forms and drop-downs now use the framework Joomla itself loads — removing a large duplicate stylesheet from every page and stopping the two versions fighting over your layout.
• Compatibility layer added for jQuery 3.7. Joomla 6 ships jQuery 3.7, which removed several functions templates of Concern's generation relied on. Without the new compatibility script the slideshow controls and parallax bands stop responding on Joomla 6 — the page looks right but nothing moves.
• Legacy code removed — old jQuery plugin loaders, Internet-Explorer compatibility code and unused stylesheets.
• Login and other pop-ups rebuilt on Joomla's current modal, and the log-in dialog is visible again — on the mixed stack it could open completely transparent, dimming the page around a box you could not see.
• The pop-up's close button shows an X again. It had been painting as a solid coloured block sitting across the dialog's own title, with no glyph in it.
• The “Remember Me” tickbox on the sign-in pop-up is a normal checkbox rather than a box stretched across almost the whole width of the dialog.
• Tooltips and popovers no longer render as invisible empty boxes.
• Page content sits where it should again. Bootstrap 5 adds an inner gutter that the original design did not expect, and because this template nests one container inside another it was inherited twice — leaving every page shifted about 12 pixels to the right.

Testimonials

• The testimonials section is a rotating carousel again. Its slider had stopped being started up, so instead of one testimonial at a time with arrows you got all ten stacked one below the other, adding roughly 1,500 pixels to the home page.

Security hardening

• Settings are now escaped before they are written into your page. Colours, sizes, image paths and text taken from the template's Options screen pass through dedicated escaping helpers — 191 places in the template's main file — instead of being printed raw as the original code did. These are administrator-only settings, so this is hardening rather than the closing of an exposed hole: it removes the class of problem where an unexpected character in a setting could break the page or put unintended markup into it.

The template Options screen

• All 22 colour settings are real colour pickers with a live preview, instead of plain text boxes needing a hand-typed hex code.
• Every on/off setting is a native Joomla switch — 61 of them — replacing the old image-based toggles, so the Options screen matches the rest of your administrator and works on a phone or tablet.
• The version displays correctly. Extensions → Manage had been reporting a 2018 date for this template regardless of the build installed.
• A new Favicon tab lets you select any image and have the template build every icon size browsers and devices ask for, with a crop tool for non-square images.
• Two headings that were meant to display in capitals now do. A find-and-replace in the original build had corrupted the styling rule behind them, so they rendered in ordinary case.

Header controls

• The menu button no longer appears to have four bars. Bootstrap 5 underlines links by default where Bootstrap 2 did not, and the underline fell directly beneath the three-bar icon in the same grey — so it read as a fourth bar. The same stray line sat under the account, register and search icons.
• The account, register and search icons are one matched set. They had each been sized independently — anywhere from 10 to 18 pixels, on three different vertical lines — so they read as unrelated controls rather than a group.
• The menu button is back to its proper size. Bringing those controls onto one shared size and alignment had shrunk it along with them, losing the emphasis the design gives it as the way into the menu.
• A phantom drop-down arrow beside the Login button has gone — it opened nothing and was left over from styling copied out of the header.

Log-in and registration

• The “Sign in with a passkey” icon renders at normal size. Joomla 6 supplies that icon without a size, and because this template pre-dates that style of icon it expanded to fill the space, appearing as a large dark shape across the log-in area.

Slideshow

• The previous and next arrows are back. They were switched off in the home page's own settings, so the slideshow could only be advanced by waiting. They are on by default now, always visible rather than appearing on mouse-hover, and sized as a proper touch target.
• The slide dots sit along the bottom, in a row. They had been stacked in a vertical column pinned to the top-left corner of the slideshow.
• Slide images size correctly instead of overflowing or leaving gaps at some screen widths.

Phones and tablets

• The menu button sits beside the logo and opens an accordion menu below the header, where opening one section closes the others.
• A utility row puts account, register, search and social controls together as properly sized touch targets, evenly spaced and fitting inside the screen instead of being clipped off both edges.
• Those icons are actually visible. Several were being drawn in the same colour as the button they sit on — an icon at 1:1 contrast with its own background, i.e. a button with nothing on it — and the Register chip could come out blank white with no pencil at all, painted over by a donor style loaded after ours.
• Two empty bands removed on phones — a dead strip of header background up to 200 pixels tall between the logo and the icon row, and a further gap of about 100 pixels under the page trail, left over from space the design reserved for a search box that no longer sits there.
• Sub-menus now have one open/close control, not two. Each item with children was showing both a plus and a down-arrow.
• That plus is legible. It had been pale ink on a pale background — under 2:1 contrast — which made the deeper levels of the menu hard to find on a phone.
• The “Follow us” social panel opens on a phone. It had been set to appear on mouse-hover only, which never happens on a touch screen, so it could not be opened at all; and when it did open the icons could be dragged outside the panel, leaving it looking empty.
• Article details stay on the page. The author, category, date and hit-count line under a heading could run off the right edge instead of wrapping onto a second line.
• Content modules are no longer clipped at the screen edge, which had been cutting the last word off banded sections.
• The “back to top” control is a proper circle rather than a stretched oval with its arrow sitting low.
• The page trail no longer takes up half the screen. On a deep page such as registration it wrapped onto five lines and stood over 200 pixels tall, pushing the form down and leaving the header image showing through behind it. It is now a single line you can swipe along.
• The search box is a usable size — a full-width panel under the header with a proper touch-sized field, instead of a cramped drop-down.
• The search button shows a magnifying glass rather than rendering as a blank white square.
• Sub-menus scroll instead of being cut off when a menu is longer than the screen, and the page can no longer be dragged sideways.

Icons, fonts and menus

• Font Awesome 6 replaces the Font Awesome 4 icon set, so icons render as sharp glyphs instead of blank squares.
• The social network set is up to date — X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Pinterest and Discord.
• The social icons are visible, and there is only one of each. The original design hid each link's text by pushing it far off the left of the screen and painting a picture behind it — so once the icons became real glyphs they inherited that shove and went off-screen with it, and where the old picture survived it showed through behind the new icon as a second, overlapping symbol.
• Drop-down menus no longer close before you can reach them. Moving the mouse from a heading down to its drop-down crossed a gap where neither was hovered.
• Menu modules placed in a sidebar render as a proper vertical list again. Bootstrap 5 redefines the list style those menus use as a horizontal row, so a menu in a left or right column came out as a strip of wrapped, jumbled links.
• Pagination arrows render correctly on article lists and blog layouts, and tall articles are no longer clipped to their title in the featured-article layout.
• The show/hide password control renders as an eye rather than a small dot.

Forms and search

• Search and text fields keep their proper height. Bootstrap 5 measures a field's box differently from Bootstrap 2, so fields sized by the original design lost their padding out of the declared height.
• The search field sits square in its row on full-size screens instead of riding high with empty space beneath it, and the button beside it stays flush against the field.
• Contact and registration fields fill the width on a phone and are tall enough to tap, instead of staying in the narrow side-by-side columns meant for a desktop.
• The label above the search box no longer prints as tiny grey text — it is hidden properly, the way an accessible label should be.
• Sidebar menus with sub-pages can be opened on a desktop. Those levels previously had no control to expand them at all.

Housekeeping

• Build artefacts and stray files that had been shipping inside the package have been removed.
• The Quick Start installs Joomla 6.1.3 and, unlike the older Akeeba-based quick starts, lets you create your own administrator account during installation instead of shipping a shared password.

With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.0
• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.3.0
• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4?