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Encore Energize Themes Templates Changelog
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September 3, 2026
Version 6.1.3.2
Maintenance release.
- Updated the Bootstrap 2→5 compatibility stylesheet to the current version, bringing this template in line with the rest of the range.
Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.
August 19, 2026Version 6.1.3.1
Maintenance release — recommended for everyone running 6.1.3. The 6.1.3 package shipped with an out-of-date copy of the Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet, and with that stylesheet loading in the wrong position in the page. Between them, those two problems meant a number of the layout corrections this template is supposed to carry were never reaching your site. Both are fixed here, and twenty-nine further corrections have been added.
Fixed
- The log-in dialog could not be opened. Clicking the log-in link dimmed the page but showed no dialog at all. An animation left over from the template's Joomla 3-era code was firing on the same click as the current Bootstrap 5 dialog and collapsed the panel to nothing while the page shading still painted. The old animation has been removed and the dialog opens normally again.
- The compatibility stylesheet was being overridden by the template's own styling. It was being added to the page before the template's stylesheets instead of after them, so any correction in it that did not explicitly force priority silently lost. It is now emitted last, which is where it has always been meant to go. This is the single most significant change in this release: corrections listed in earlier changelogs were present in the package but were not all taking effect on the page.
- The close button on the log-in dialog appeared as a solid coloured block sitting on top of the "Login Form" heading rather than as an ×. The dialog's dismiss control had been converted to the Bootstrap 5 style, where the × is supplied by the stylesheet rather than by the button itself — and this template does not load Bootstrap's own stylesheet, so nothing drew it. The glyph is now supplied directly.
- Article details ran off the side of the page on a phone. Written by, Parent Category, Category, Published, Created, Last Updated and Hits were laid out on a single line that was not allowed to wrap, so the later items simply continued past the edge of the screen — measured at 375px, they ended 113px outside the content column and 73px outside the visible page. They now wrap onto as many lines as they need.
- Joomla 6's "Sign in with a passkey" button drew a very large black shape across the log-in page. Joomla 6 draws that button's icon as an inline graphic with no size of its own, and no template in our range was written to expect one, so it expanded to fill whatever space it could find. Inline icons of that kind are now capped to a sensible size and take the button's own colour.
- The page could be scrolled sideways at tablet widths even though nothing visible was overflowing. The menu's drop-down panels are parked off-screen vertically, which hides them but does nothing horizontally, so they continued to stretch the page's scrollable width.
- Icons in the phone header could be invisible. The small round buttons for account, search and social links took their symbol colour from the surrounding header, which on a white button meant white on white. Their colour is now derived from the button's own background, so they are always legible.
- The phone header could show an empty coloured band with nothing in it. The template reserved a fixed-height strip for the old phone layout, which the current mobile header no longer fills. The strip now sizes itself to whatever is actually in it.
- Breadcrumb links could run off the right-hand edge on interior and account pages at tablet widths, because the row containing them was resolving to zero width.
- The slide-out "Follow Us" tab was unusable on touch screens and left a dead bar across the foot of the page. It only ever responded to a mouse hover, and the phone header already offers the same links. It is now hidden on phones.
- Social icons copied into the phone's social panel could land outside it and appear as an empty panel, and could pick up stray bullet graphics from the template's general list styling.
- Search fields and other older form fields could collapse to less than their proper height, in some cases cutting off the submit button beside them.
- Header controls across the top of the page were each sized independently and did not line up with one another. They now share one size and one midline, on both desktop and phone.
- Assorted further corrections to drop-down and mobile menus, tooltips and popovers, spacing in the phone utility row, and full-height column panels.
Changed
- The mobile header and menu are now built by our shared script rather than a per-template copy. The behaviour is the same, but every template in the range now gets the same fixes at the same time.
Removed
- Two stray developer archive files were being installed onto your site — a copy of the Bootstrap source in the template's stylesheet folder and a copy of a Joomla layout override in the overrides folder. Neither was ever used at runtime. They have been removed from the package. If you installed 6.1.3 you can safely delete
templates/encore/css/bootstrap.zipandtemplates/encore/html/com_content/category/blog_item.zip; updating to 6.1.3.1 does not remove files left behind by the previous install.
Requires Joomla 6.1 or newer and PHP 8.3+.
August 18, 2026Version 6.1.3
Encore 6.1.3 is a maintenance release. It renumbers the template to match the Joomla version it is built and tested against, refreshes the Quick Start onto the current Joomla release, and brings the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet up to the current shared build. There are no changes you need to make after updating — your settings, colours and menu choices carry over.
Version numbering
- The template version now matches the Joomla version it ships against. Encore 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.2. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.2, so the update comparison in your Extensions Manager behaves normally, and nothing about how you install or update the template changes. We are applying the same convention across the whole template range so that the number on the download tells you at a glance which Joomla release it was tested against.
Quick Start
- The Quick Start package now installs Joomla 6.1.3. The previous Quick Start bundled Joomla 6.1.2. If you are building a new site from the Quick Start you now get the current Joomla release straight away, instead of installing and then immediately having to run a core update.
- The Quick Start is a standard Joomla installation package — upload it, extract it, and run the normal Joomla installer in your browser. Akeeba Kickstart is not needed.
Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet
- Brought up to the current shared build, adding twenty-five further layout guards since 6.1.2.2. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Encore is protected against the same classes of problem rather than waiting for one of them to surface on your site. The areas covered are: drop-down menu behaviour and flow; mobile header layout, ordering and spacing; slideshow controls on touch screens, which are revealed on hover and so were unreachable by tap; social icon rendering where a template's own image sprite competed with the Font Awesome 6 glyphs that replaced it; tooltips and popovers becoming visible on the page before they were triggered; page bands that pin themselves to a fixed desktop width and so scroll sideways on a phone; grid children that lost their block display; and full-height column panels that clipped the content they were meant to wrap.
What is not in this release
- No template file other than the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet changed between 6.1.2.2 and 6.1.3. Everything shipped in the 6.1.2.x line — the Joomla 6 native rebuild, the removal of the JavaScript errors that fired on every page load, the jQuery compatibility layer that keeps the slideshow and parallax bands working, the log-in dialog that now opens fully visible, the mobile overflow and drawer fixes, and the drop-down menu positioning corrections — is carried forward unchanged in this package.
- Known limitation, unchanged and disclosed: the template still loads jQuery and a number of carried-forward jQuery plug-ins. These are dependencies the template genuinely uses, not dead code, and removing them is a larger piece of work than a maintenance release should carry.
With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to the maintenance pass across our templates that several of these compatibility-stylesheet guards came out of.
August 10, 2026Version 6.1.2
Encore is now a Joomla 6 native template. This is a full rebuild of the template against Joomla 6 — it no longer depends on the backwards-compatibility plugin, and every part of it has been brought up to current Joomla and Bootstrap standards.
- Joomla 6 native. Built and tested against Joomla 6.1.2. All Joomla 3-era API calls removed.
- Bootstrap 5. The template's Bootstrap 2 markup and styling are bridged to Bootstrap 5, including the log-in dialog, which now opens correctly.
- Rebuilt mobile experience. A proper mobile header with a main menu drawer, a section-menu panel, and single-tap access to search, social links, log-in and registration — all with 44px touch targets. The old phone menu, which depended on a library Joomla no longer ships, is gone.
- Social links brought up to date. Google Plus, StumbleUpon, Digg, MySpace and Blogger have been retired; Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok and Discord added; Twitter is now X. Icons are Font Awesome 6.
- Faster fonts. Google Fonts now load through a direct stylesheet link instead of a script that had to run first.
- Favicon suite. Upload a favicon straight from the template settings, with Apple touch icon support.
- Colour pickers throughout the template settings instead of plain text fields.
- Accessibility and correctness: screen-reader labels on social links,
rel="noopener"on external links, and all template output escaped. - Error pages are now responsive on phones.
Requires Joomla 6.1 or newer and PHP 8.3+.
August 10, 2026Version 6.1.2.2
- Drop-down menus no longer appear open before you hover them. On some templates every sub-menu was drawn on the page from the moment it loaded. They are hidden again until you move the mouse over the menu.
- Drop-downs sit directly beneath the menu they open from. They previously appeared a short distance below, and moving the mouse across that space closed the menu before you arrived. Sub-menus that open to the side are likewise flush against the column they come from.
August 10, 2026Version 6.1.2.1
- Drop-down menus now sit directly beneath the menu they open from. They previously appeared a short distance below, and moving the mouse across that space closed the menu before you arrived. Sub-menus that open to the side are likewise flush against the column they come from.
November 6, 2025Version 06.11.2025 6.0.0
- Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.0
- Minor Bugs fixed
June 24, 2025Version 24.06.2025 5.3.0
- Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.3.0
- Minor Bugs fixed
July 18, 2024Version 03.07.2024 5.1.1
- Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
- Minor Bugs fixed
February 9, 2024Version 09.02.2024 5.0.2/4.2.0
- Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
April 10, 2023Version 01.04.2023 4.2.8
- Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2
