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  • Version 6.2.0.4

    Login form. The username box was narrower than the password field beside it; every field now takes the full row. The username and password fields are the same height, level with the show-password button.

    Second phone menu. The second phone menu button repeated the main menu; it now shows the site's Main Menu, with all its levels, on every page.

    Phone header. The phone menu script is updated to the current version: opening a phone panel no longer dims the logo and menu buttons, and tapping outside an open panel closes it.

    Phone spacing. On phones the content started 40px in (two side paddings stacked) and the home page heading 40px; both now line up at 20px. Pictures that sit side by side in the home page modules stack on phones, so a heading no longer squeezes in beside them.

    Module positions. The template tested its header and footer position pairs with a Joomla 3 expression that Joomla 4 and later read as a single position name, so the test always failed; each position is now checked on its own.

    Print view on phones. The print view had no mobile viewport, so on a phone it showed a shrunken desktop page; it now fits the screen.

    Error page. An error caused by a missing item no longer prints the server's file paths.

    Defaults for a fresh install. The site name / logo now links to the home page and the slideshow is switched on with autoplay (logoLinked, cam_turnOn, cam_autoAdvance, cam_mobileAutoAdvance default to on). Existing sites keep their saved settings.

    Quickstart. The search box returned No Results for everything (the search index was empty); it is built. The sample Atomic, Beez 20 and Beez 5 category pages showed broken thumbnails of Joomla 3 templates; the broken images are removed. The Site Map's Contacts link opened as a pop-up through a broken address (404); it opens normally.

    Shared stylesheet. The template's Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet is updated to the current version used across our templates. Your own template settings are not changed.

    Removed. 35 JavaScript and CSS files nothing loads (580 KB), among them Superfish, Modernizr and old Internet Explorer stylesheets; the unused Bootstrap 2 stylesheets (css/bootstrap.min.css and its responsive / extended / RTL companions); 5 template options nothing read (old drop-down menu effect settings and similar); template code that read settings the template never offered; stylesheet references to 15 images that do not exist, and links to stylesheets that do not exist.

    Version 6.2.0.3

    Login fields on phones. The username and password fields were smaller than 16px on phones, so an iPhone zoomed the page in when one was tapped and did not zoom back out. Login, registration, profile and password-reset fields are now 16px on phones.

    Template Options screen. The icons on the template's Options screen came from Font Awesome 4.6.3 on MaxCDN, which no longer serves it, so they were missing. They now load Font Awesome 6.5.2 with its version 4 name shims from cdnjs.

    Version 6.2.0.2

    Security. The template's menu layouts printed a menu item's note and link exactly as entered, so markup typed into a menu item's Note or Link field reached the page. Both are now escaped, as Joomla's own menu layouts do.

    Colours with transparency. A colour chosen with the colour picker's opacity slider (saved as an 8-digit colour such as #rrggbbaa) was replaced with black. Colours with transparency are now used as chosen.

    Version 6.2.0.1

    Page language. The page had no opening <html> tag, so browsers, screen readers and search engines were not told the page's language or text direction. It now declares both from the site's language settings.

    Version 6.2.0

    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.

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

    Version 6.1.4.1

    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.

    Version 6.1.4

    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.

    Version 6.1.3.6

    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.

    Version 6.1.3.5

    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.

    Version 6.1.3.4

    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.

    Version 6.1.3.3

    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.

    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.

    Version 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.zip and templates/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+.

    Version 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.

    Version 6.1.2

    First Joomla 6 native release. Encore has been brought forward from the previous download (06.11.2025 6.0.0) to Joomla 6.1.2. Encore keeps its own Bootstrap 2 layout classes and stylesheet and renders on Joomla’s Bootstrap 5 through a new compatibility stylesheet, so existing module and article markup keeps its layout. This release adds a full phone layout, a real colour picker for every colour setting, Joomla’s native on/off switches, a favicon tool and current social networks, and makes the template’s own error page live. The last Joomla 3 API call has been replaced, the template no longer loads its legacy browser shims or the Superfish, Supersubs, Backstretch and Selectnav plug-ins, and setting values written into the page now go through escaping helpers. Across the template, 16 files were added, 17 removed and 7 modified (220 → 219 files). The template version now matches the Joomla version it ships with.

    Added

    Bootstrap 5 compatibility layer

    • New css/bs2-bs5-bridge.css (46 CS-PATCH blocks), loaded on every page with a file-time version marker. It maps Encore’s Bootstrap 2 grid (.row, .row-fluid, .spanN, offsets, column stacking on phones), the hidden-phone / visible-phone responsive utilities, tabs, collapse and the modal shell onto Joomla’s Bootstrap 5, and keeps the page at the original 1170 px width on wide screens.
    • Bootstrap 2 marks an open dialog .in where Bootstrap 5 uses .show; the bridge re-points those rules (CS-PATCH: bs2-fade-in-to-show) so the log-in dialog opens visible, centred and in front of the page.
    • Joomla’s own icon classes (icon-eye, icon-angle-left / -right / -double-left / -double-right and others) are mapped to Font Awesome glyphs (CS-PATCH: joomla-icon-classes-to-fa6, icon-eye-currentcolor), so the password show/hide button and the pagination arrows draw an icon in the button’s own colour.
    • The desktop search box sits centred in the header bar (CS-PATCH: desktop-search-vcentre).
    • A guard for Joomla’s featured-articles view (.blog-featured) so a single-column featured intro is not clipped to its title.
    • Bootstrap 2 .spanN columns inside a Bootstrap 5 .row keep their width as they do inside .row-fluid (CS-PATCH: row-spanN-mirror), so a content column beside a sidebar does not wrap underneath it.

    jQuery 3 compatibility

    • New js/cs-jq-compat.js, loaded right after Joomla’s head scripts: restores three jQuery 1.x calls that Joomla’s jQuery 3.7 no longer has — .live() (used by the built-in slideshow’s play/pause controls in camera.min.js), .offset() on the window, and .load(fn) as a load-event shortcut.

    Phone layout

    • New js/cs-mobile.js: at 767 px and below Encore gets a compact header with a menu button that opens a slide-in menu drawer built from the site’s real nested menu, with + buttons to open each sub-menu.
    • One centred toolbar row of 44 px buttons under the logo: Section menu (the page’s sidebar menu, or the main menu’s top level where a page has none), Log in, Register (when registration is open), Search and Follow us (the social links).
    • The phone search panel is full width and has a real Search button.
    • Open panels close when you tap the shaded area behind them, press Escape, or widen the window past phone size.
    • On phones the page cannot be pushed sideways, and wrappers with a fixed desktop width are capped to the screen (CS-PATCH: mobile-root-overflow-clip, mobile-fixed-width-wrapper-cap), so the drawer and panels fit the visible screen.
    • All of this is hidden at 768 px and wider; the desktop layout is unchanged.

    Own error page

    • The previous download shipped its error page as error_.php, a name Joomla never uses, so visitors got Joomla’s plain system error page. It is now error.php and in use: “page not found” and other errors show the site name, the error code and message, and a link back to the home page, styled with the template’s reset.css, text.css, typography.css and presets/style-error.css, with a viewport tag so it fits a phone screen.

    Colour picker

    • New custom field fields/colorpicker.php with the bundled Coloris picker (js/coloris.min.js, css/coloris.min.css, js/coloris.LICENSE.txt). All 72 colour settings (e.g. bodybackground, bodytextcolor, sitenamecolor, bottom1bg, RestopmenuHlinksBG) changed from text to colorpicker, with a live swatch and a picker that ships with the template.
    • New fields/adminui.php: a hidden field that styles the Options screen, so the Favicon tab’s help text runs across the top of the tab instead of being squeezed into the narrow label column.

    Favicon tool

    • New Favicon tab (fieldset faviconsettings) with a media field (favicon) and a crop tool (fields/favicontool.php): pick any image, drag a square over the part you want, and click Create Favicon. With thanks to Gianluca, whose favicon question inspired this tool.
    • On save, index.php builds the full set through two new helpers, phFaviconSet() and phIcoBytes(): a real favicon.ico (16, 32 and 48 px, also copied to the site root), 32, 192 and 512 px PNGs and a 180 px Apple touch icon, cached in images/favicon-generated/ and linked automatically. .ico and .svg files are used as they are; with no image chosen, the template’s own favicon.ico is used.
    • 10 new language strings in en-GB.tpl_encore.ini (66 → 76), e.g. TPL_ENCORE_FAVICON_TAB, TPL_ENCORE_FAVICON_LABEL, TPL_ENCORE_FAVICONTOOL_CREATE.

    Modern social network support

    • Eight new social services, each with a URL field and an on/off switch: Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, Bluesky, Mastodon, Discord (fields instagram/instagramON … discord/discordON).
    • Twitter is now X: the twitter field is labelled “X (formerly Twitter)” and shows the X logo.
    • The header’s social links now cover 13 services (X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Pinterest, Discord, RSS). Each is a Font Awesome 6 glyph (fa-brands, fa-solid fa-rss) instead of an image sprite, has a screen-reader label, and opens with rel="noopener".
    • The on/off switches are labelled “Show X (formerly Twitter)”, “Show Facebook” and so on.

    Fonts and icons

    • The front end loads Font Awesome 6.5.2 (all.min.css) with v4-shims.min.css from cdnjs.cloudflare.com, for the social glyphs, the phone toolbar and Joomla’s icons.

    Security helpers

    • Three new helper functions at the top of index.php: phEsc() (HTML escaping), phHexColor() (colour values, falls back to #000000) and phCssDim() (sizes, accepting px, em, rem, %, vh, vw and other units). Details under Security.

    Sample-data images

    • New images/legacy-bluestork/ (icon-48-component.png, -language.png, -module.png, -plugin.png, -themes.png): the five sample category descriptions under “Extensions” pointed at administrator/templates/bluestork/, the Joomla 2.5 admin template that no longer exists, so their images were broken. The descriptions now use these copies.

    Changed

    Joomla 6 platform

    • Built for Joomla 6.1.2. templateDetails.xml now declares <extension version="6.1"> (was 3.10) and <targetplatform name="joomla" version="6.1" />, and drops the Joomla 2.5 DOCTYPE.
    • templateDetails.xml version 06.11.2025 6.0.0 → 6.1.2, creation date 23/10/2013 → 2026-08-10; the version shown on the Options screen and the @version line in index.php match. method="upgrade" kept, so an existing install updates in place.
    • The last Joomla 3 class alias is gone (J3 static calls 15 → 0): html/mod_search/default.php used JRoute::_(), now Route::_(); the other 14 were in the unused error_.php, now replaced by error.php written with Factory, Text and new \Exception() in place of JFactory, JText and JError::raiseWarning(). These aliases exist only while Joomla’s Behaviour – Backward Compatibility plugin is enabled.

    Log-in dialog on Bootstrap 5

    • The log-in dialog is a Bootstrap 5 modal (modal fade with modal-dialog-centered and modal-content, was b-modal ahide afade), opened with data-bs-toggle / data-bs-target.
    • Both close controls use data-bs-dismiss="modal". The old Close link ran jQuery('#LoginForm').hide(); jQuery('#LoginForm').modal('hide');, which fails under Bootstrap 5 and could leave the dialog blank the next time it opened.
    • The system-message close button uses data-bs-dismiss="alert". All Bootstrap 2 data-toggle / data-dismiss attributes are gone from index.php.

    Template Options screen

    • 99 field type changes in templateDetails.xml. The 27 remaining legacy class="switch" checkboxes (e.g. logoLinked, H1TitleImgText, RSSON, usetheme, usedropdown, cam_autoAdvance) are now Joomla’s native on/off switchers (35 in all with the new social switches), and the 72 colour settings are colour pickers.
    • Fields 159 → 168, fieldsets 7 → 8. Tab names are shorter: “Basic”, “Site Name & Slogan”, “Drop Down Menu”, “Header & Footer Custom Code”, “Built-in Slideshow”, “Theme”.

    Fonts

    • The Google Fonts WebFontConfig JavaScript loader (which fetched webfont.js from ajax.googleapis.com before any font could load) is replaced by a direct stylesheet link for the same Open Sans weights, with preconnect hints and display=swap (WebFontConfig 1 → 0).

    Menus and background without old jQuery plug-ins

    • Drop-down menus open on hover through a short built-in script instead of the Superfish/Supersubs plug-ins, and stay open for 500 ms after the pointer leaves, as before. The Min column width, Drop Down Speed and opacity/height/width animation settings applied only to those plug-ins and no longer have an effect; the 2- to 5-column widths still apply.
    • The phone menu is the new drawer instead of the Selectnav drop-down list; its start-up call has been taken out of html/mod_menu/default.php.
    • The page background image is applied as a plain CSS background instead of through Backstretch.
    • None of these scripts is loaded any more. jQuery itself still loads for the built-in slideshow, the side menu panel and the log-in link.

    Overrides

    • 4 of the 28 PHP overrides under html/ were modified: mod_search/default.php (above), mod_menu/default.php (Selectnav call removed), mod_breadcrumbs/default.php (falls back to an empty $moduleclass_sfx, which Joomla no longer passes, instead of raising an “Undefined variable” warning) and mod_login/default.php (falls back to $type = 'login', and calls HTMLHelper by its correct name).

    Fixed

    • The Options screen loaded its scripts and images from another template’s folder. The previous download’s template description pulled admin-js.js, the on/off switch images and the colour-wheel icon from templates/concern/, which does not exist on an Encore site, and the colour pickers depended on a jscolor loader. The native switches and the bundled colour picker replace all of it.
    • The built-in slideshow raised a script error on every page that showed it. jquery.mobile.customized.min.js fails while starting up under jQuery 3.7 and nothing in the template uses it; it is no longer loaded.
    • The slideshow’s play/pause controls did nothing. camera.min.js binds them with jQuery’s .live(), which jQuery 3 removed; js/cs-jq-compat.js restores it.
    • The password show/hide button and the pagination arrows (Previous, Next, First, Last) could show as empty boxes, because Encore had no styling for Joomla’s own icon-* classes. They now draw Font Awesome glyphs. With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.
    • Category pages from the sample data showed five broken images (see Sample-data images).

    Removed

    Legacy scripts and stylesheets no longer loaded

    • Scripts: superfish.js, supersubs.js, selectnav.min.js, jquery.backstretch.min.js, jquery.mobile.customized.min.js, modernizr.js, selectivizr-min.js, the remote html5.js shiv from html5shiv.googlecode.com, and the webfont.js loader. The local files remain in js/ but nothing loads them.
    • The inline jQuery.browser Internet Explorer detection block that only Superfish used.
    • The Internet Explorer stylesheets ie9-10.css, ie.css and ie6.css and the Internet Explorer conditional comments that loaded them and the shims.

    Old colour picker, switches and admin script

    • The whole utils/ folder: utils/js_colourchanger/ (jscolor.js, arrow.gif, cross.gif, hs.png, hv.png), utils/images/switch-background.png and switch-mask.png, utils/admin-js.js and the unused utils/bss_fontchanger.php, plus the colours_handlers field that started the old picker.

    Unused files

    • css/bootstrap/, a second copy of seven Bootstrap 2 stylesheets that nothing loaded (bootstrap.css, bootstrap.min.css, bootstrap-responsive.css, bootstrap-responsive.min.css, bootstrap-extended.css, bootstrap-rtl.css, bootstrap-tooltip-extended.css). The stylesheets in css/ itself are kept.
    • error_.php, replaced by error.php.

    Retired social services

    • Five social slots removed with their switches: Google+ (gplus), StumbleUpon, Digg, MySpace, Blogger.

    Security

    • Template settings written into the page go through the new helpers: 124 phEsc() call sites in index.php, plus phHexColor() and phCssDim(). They cover the colour and size values in the inline <style> block, the 13 social link URLs, the logo and slogan image addresses, the theme preset name in the stylesheet link and the page background image.
    • Site name and slogan text (H1Title / H2Title) are escaped, so markup typed into them shows as text rather than being added to the page.
    • Social links open with rel="noopener", so the opened site cannot control the Encore tab.

    Quickstart Installer

    The Quickstart is a complete Joomla 6.1.2 site with Encore installed as the active template, with the demo content.

    • It is now a standard Joomla installation package that runs Joomla’s own web installer, replacing the previous Akeeba backup archive (.jpa), so Akeeba Kickstart is not needed.
    • Bundled extensions: Joomla 6.1.2, Akeeba Backup 10.3.7, Weblinks 5.1.0, Search 4.0.0, MCP for Joomla 2.4.0, StageIt 5.7.3.
    • The five sample category descriptions use the template’s own images/legacy-bluestork/ copies instead of the missing Bluestork admin images.

    Package format

    • Standalone template: Encore now installs as a Joomla package (pkg_encore-6.1.2.zip, manifest pkg_encore.xml) that installs and registers the encore template extension, replacing the bare encore.zip. It declares method="upgrade", so an existing Encore updates in place, and <blockChildUninstall>true</blockChildUninstall>, so the template is removed through the package rather than on its own.
    • Quickstart bundle: Encore-6.1.2-Quickstart.zip, a complete Joomla 6.1.2 install with Encore pre-loaded as the active template.

    Requires Joomla 6.1 or newer and PHP 8.3+.

    Version numbering: from this release the first three digits of Encore’s version match the Joomla release it is built for (6.1.2 = Joomla 6.1.2). A later fix on the same Joomla release adds a fourth digit (6.1.2.1). The previous download was versioned 06.11.2025 6.0.0.

    Version 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.

    Version 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.

    Version 06.11.2025 6.0.0

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

    Version 24.06.2025 5.3.0

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

    Version 03.07.2024 5.1.1

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

    Version 09.02.2024 5.0.2/4.2.0

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

    Version 01.04.2023 4.2.8

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