Please update if you downloaded Creativa on 18 or 19 August 2026. The 6.1.3 package went out with a copy of our shared Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet that was a week out of date, with the older mobile-header script, and with a stray build archive left inside the template folder. Its release notes described fixes that were not actually inside the file you received. 6.1.3.1 is that same release with the correct files in it. Nothing you have configured changes; install it over the top as usual.

This is a packaging correction plus a substantial catch-up of the shared stylesheet. Creativa goes from 78 to 106 layout-guard blocks, covering everything found across our template range between 11 and 19 August. Every item below was measured on a rendered page, not inferred from a file.

Fixed

• The register button in the phone header was a blank white square. Measured at 375 px on Creativa: a white pencil icon on a white button, a contrast ratio of 1.00:1 — the control was there, 44 × 44 px and tappable, and painted nothing at all. Creativa's own tweaks file was forcing a white background and dark text onto every button in that row, which overrode the accent colour the shared stylesheet applies to the register button. Those two declarations have been withdrawn from the tweaks file so the shared rules can own the button colouring; everything genuinely specific to Creativa in that file — size, border, corner radius, cursor — is untouched.
• The phone social panel opened with bullet graphics beside the icons and the icons wrapped onto two rows. Creativa's typography stylesheet puts a bullet image and a 24 px indent on every plain list item, and the social icons are copied into the panel as a plain list, so they inherited both. Measured before and after: the panel was 138 px tall with bullets and two rows of icons, and is now 72 px with one clean row.
• The log-in dialog's close button was a solid coloured block sitting on top of the "Login Form" heading. The Bootstrap 5 close control draws its × from Bootstrap 5's own stylesheet, which these templates deliberately do not ship — so it painted an empty box with no cross in it. The dialog now closes from a proper ×, and the button no longer covers the title.
• Joomla 6's passkey button drew an enormous black graphic across the log-in page. The "Sign in with a passkey" icon is supplied by Joomla as a drawing with no size of its own, and no template in this generation sizes one, so it expanded to fill whatever space it could find. It is now capped to a normal icon and takes the button's own colour.
• The article information line ran off the side of the page. Written by, parent category, category, published, created, last updated and hits were laid out on one line that was not allowed to wrap, so on a phone the later items simply ran past the edge of the screen — and that was the whole of the page's sideways scroll. The line now wraps.
• Icon buttons in the phone header could be completely invisible. Where the template's own stylesheets set a white icon colour, the icon landed on a white button and disappeared. Icon colour is now decided by the button's own background rather than inherited, so account, search, social and menu icons are always readable.
• The phone header icon row was unevenly spaced and clipped at both ends. Two spacing systems were fighting; the row now uses one, and the whole set fits and centres on a 375 px screen.
• The slideshow's previous and next arrows were too small to hit reliably on a touch screen and the chevron sat off-centre inside them. They are now a 44 × 44 px target with the arrow drawn centred.
• Pages could be scrolled sideways at tablet widths even though nothing visible overflowed. The drop-down menu panels are parked out of sight above the page, but only vertically — horizontally they still sat inside it and still counted towards the page's width. They are now parked out of the way in both directions.
• The controls at the top right of the desktop header were different sizes on different midlines. Register and account now share one box, one icon size and one baseline.
• A navigation bar containing a floated item no longer pushes the next row of content sideways. Bootstrap 2 shipped a clear-fix on navigation lists that Bootstrap 5 dropped; without it the row below snagged on the menu and lost a column.
• Breadcrumbs could run off the right edge on interior pages at 1024 and 768 px. The row holding them resolved to zero width, so the links had nothing to wrap inside.
• Old-style grid rows on category and blog pages no longer collapse. Rows whose children are all floated took no height at all, so the row's own background painted as a thin sliver and whatever followed rode up into it.
• The "+" expanders in the phone menu drawer take a colour derived from their own background rather than a fixed white that could land on a pale panel.
• Registration and account fields were unusably narrow on a phone. Several were about a third of the screen wide with the rest of the width empty beside them, because they were sized for a two-column desktop layout that no longer applies once the form stacks. They now use the full width.
• Tooltips, popovers, mobile menu and drop-down behaviour, phone header spacing, non-responsive page bands and full-height column panels all pick up further guards added across the range in this period.

Removed

• A stray build archive shipped inside the template. html/layouts.zip — a zipped copy of the template's own override folder, left behind by an earlier build — was present in the 6.1.3 package and is gone from 6.1.3.1. It was never used by Joomla, but it sat inside your site's template folder and duplicated template source in a publicly-addressable location. If you installed 6.1.3, updating removes it.

Changed

• The mobile header and menu script is now the shared build used across the whole range (js/cs-mobile-generic.js, replacing js/cs-mobile.js). Behaviour is the same; the template now receives improvements to the phone header at the same time as every other template we publish.
• The Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet moves from the 11 August build to the 19 August build — 78 guard blocks to 106.

Unchanged

• The Quick Start still installs Joomla 6.1.3. Nothing in the sample site, its content or its extensions changed in this release — but the Quick Start has been rebuilt so that a new site started from it gets the corrected template files rather than the 18 August ones.
• No template setting, colour parameter, module position or override changed.

Most of the items above were found by walking rendered pages across our template range during August — Encore, Energize, Oxygen, Vision, Progressive, Crystal, Impulsa and Diversity — and applied here both where they were measured on Creativa itself and preventatively where they were not.

Maintenance release. Three features that had been quietly dead since Joomla dropped the MooTools JavaScript framework are now working again, the template no longer ships any unused JavaScript, and the site console is clean. This release closes the "Known limitations" item published with 6.1.2. No settings change and no action is needed beyond updating.

Fixed

• The collapsible module styles collapse again. Both toggleModule styles were written for MooTools, a framework Joomla removed years ago, so clicking the heading did nothing — this had been broken since Joomla 3. They have been rewritten dependency-free and now open and close with a smooth slide. This was the limitation disclosed in 6.1.2.
• The slideshow parallax effect works again. The Turn ON/OFF Parallax setting had nothing behind it: the effect was also MooTools-based and had only been producing a console error. It has been rewritten in plain JavaScript with the original layer movement preserved, so the setting does what it says once more. A long-standing bug was fixed along the way — the original attached a new mouse handler every time the pointer entered the slideshow, stacking handlers for as long as the page stayed open.
• Touch swipe on the slideshow works again on phones and tablets. The bundled jQuery Mobile build was failing during its own start-up against the current jQuery and registering no gesture handlers at all, so the left/right swipes the slideshow listens for were never delivered. It has been replaced with a small purpose-built swipe handler.
• No more browser console errors. The template rendered three JavaScript errors on every page load at the start of this work and now renders none.

Removed

• 22 unused JavaScript libraries, about 343 KB. None were loaded by the template. Among them was jQuery 1.8.1 from 2012, which has publicly documented security vulnerabilities — shipping it, even unused, is something a security scan will flag. Also removed: superfish, supersubs, dropkick, owl.carousel, nicescroll, selectric, elevateZoom, backstretch, modernizr, selectivizr and others. If you referenced one of these directly in your own custom code, add your own copy — the template no longer provides them.
• A dead template file that used the Joomla 3 module-chrome programming interface, which Joomla 4 replaced. Every style it defined already exists in the modern format, so it was duplicate code that Joomla never called.
• The orphaned "Nice Tipz Labels" setting, which controlled a tooltip script that no longer ships. The setting had no effect.

Requirements

• Joomla 6.1 or newer · PHP 8.3 or newer · Bootstrap 5
• The quickstart bundles Joomla 6.1.2.

Known limitations

• The slideshow still uses camera.js and therefore still loads jQuery. These are working dependencies rather than dead code, but they remain on the list to modernize.