Energize Energize Themes Templates Changelog

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 The 6.1.3 package shipped with an out-of-date copy of the Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet, and with that stylesheet loading in the wrong position in the page.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 — including, on this template, the phone menu. Both are fixed here, and twenty-nine further corrections have been added.

Fixed

• The phone menu could not be opened. The menu button in the phone header was being drawn with no width or height at all, so there was nothing to tap and nothing happened when you tried. It is now a normal 44-pixel button and the menu drawer opens and closes as intended.
• 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.
• A large empty dark band appeared in the phone header, between the logo bar and the row of icons beneath it, with nothing inside it. The template reserved a fixed 154-pixel strip for its old phone layout while the content that survives in it measures 84 pixels, so the remainder painted as an empty box. The strip now sizes itself to its contents.
• On desktop the logo hung below the menu bar and the menu sat on the bar's bottom edge. The header row was being sized by the search column rather than by the bar itself, which pushed both down. The search box still sits where it was designed to sit, but it no longer drags the rest of the header with it — measured at 1400px, the menu text and the bar now share the same midline exactly, and the logo sits fully inside the bar.
• Breadcrumb links ran off the right-hand edge of interior and account pages at 1024 and 768 pixels. The row containing them was resolving to zero width, so the links had no width to wrap inside and simply continued past the edge — 58 pixels past at 1024 and 66 at 768. The home page was unaffected, which is why this went unnoticed.
• The header search box pushed the page wider than the screen at tablet widths. The field is set to a fixed 220 pixels, which is deliberate on a wide screen, but the column holding it narrows at tablet sizes and the field kept its full width regardless. It is now capped in those two sizes only, and the intended desktop appearance is unchanged.
• 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, and the dialog has gained a proper × in its top corner in addition to the Close button at the foot.
• 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. 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.
• Icons in the phone header were 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 — measured on this template as a contrast ratio of exactly 1.00, which is to say nothing was drawn at all. Their colour is now derived from the button's own background.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Close button at the foot of the log-in dialog is now a real button rather than a link, so it behaves correctly for keyboard and screen-reader users.

Requires Joomla 6.1 or newer and PHP 8.3+.

Added

Bootstrap 5 foundation

• Template now runs on Joomla core's bundled Bootstrap 5 — loaded through the CMS (bootstrap.loadCss + framework), so it stays patched with every Joomla update instead of shipping a frozen 2012 copy.
• A dedicated Bootstrap 2 → 5 compatibility layer (bs2-bs5-bridge.css) preserves the original 1170-pixel boxed grid, span-column widths, responsive breakpoints and visibility utilities, so the layout is faithful to the original design on every screen size.
• Automatic cache-busting on the template's stylesheets — customers see CSS fixes immediately after an update, with no hard-refresh support tickets.

Modern social network lineup (13 networks)

• New networks: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and Discord — each with its own URL setting and on/off switch in the Template Style.
• X (formerly Twitter) rebrand: current X logo and label; your existing Twitter URL setting carries over untouched.
• Icons render with Font Awesome 6 brand glyphs, with accessible screen-reader labels and rel="noopener" on every external profile link.

Font Awesome 6

• Font Awesome upgraded to 6.5.2 with the version-4 compatibility shims loaded, so any fa fa-* icons in your existing articles and modules keep rendering without edits.

Changed

JavaScript modernization — jQuery plugin retirement

• Drop-down menus now run on pure CSS hover styling (with the original submenu widths preserved) — the Superfish/Supersubs jQuery menu stack is gone.
• Styled select boxes use the native browser control — the Dropkick plugin is gone.
• Full-page background image uses CSS background-size: cover — the Backstretch plugin is gone.
• Google Fonts load through a direct stylesheet link with preconnect hints — the WebFont JavaScript injector is gone, removing a render-blocking script from every page load.
• Login form upgraded to the Bootstrap 5 modal: properly centered dialog, standard open/close behaviour, no legacy inline handlers.

Template settings

• All 32 on/off options in the Template Style converted to Joomla's modern switcher controls.
• Social settings fieldset rebuilt around the 13-network lineup; retired-network settings removed.

Fixed

• JavaScript console is now completely clean — removed the obsolete jquery.mobile touch script that threw a TypeError on every page view.
• Footer copyright no longer overflows the dark footer panel — text now sits inside the box with proper padding.
• Header alignment: the top bar and menu shading now stop exactly at the page-box edge instead of running past it.
• Menu bar height restored, so the logo panel sits fully inside the shaded bar at every desktop width.
• Top information bar shading matched to the main menu bar for a consistent header.
• Mobile fixes: social icon strip aligned edge-to-edge with correct top spacing; LOGIN FORM / REGISTER links properly centered; search box spaced above the slideshow; eliminated a horizontal scroll caused by an 11-pixel layout overflow; the 5-pixel white strip above the header is gone.
• Template manifest: removed a duplicate <version> tag that had shipped since 2013; versioning is now clean semantic numbering (5.4.0).
• Dead update server: disabled a defunct Akeeba FOF 3.x update-site entry that pointed at a retired CDN — no more failed update checks on fresh installs.

Removed

• Bootstrap 2 stylesheets (bootstrap.css, responsive.css) and the legacy 970-pixel grid.
• jQuery plugins: Superfish, Supersubs, Dropkick, Backstretch, jquery.mobile, and the jQuery.browser Internet Explorer detection shim.
• IE-era conditional blocks and polyfills (Selectivizr, Modernizr, html5shiv).
• Retired social networks: Google+, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blogger (including their language strings and settings).
• The leftover Bluestork admin template (Joomla 2.5-era donor cruft) — the install now ships only the templates it uses.

Security

• Output-escaping pass across the template: every admin-controlled Template Style setting echoed into the page (colours, dimensions, URLs, free text) is now validated or escaped — hardening the template against stored-XSS via template settings.
• Template ships as a proper Joomla package (pkg_energize) with coherent update handling.

Quickstart

• Quickstart bundles Joomla 5.4.7 (current at release) with the full demo content — a fresh install starts on up-to-date, supported software.
• Standalone package (pkg_energize-5.4.0.zip) installs on any existing Joomla 5 site via Extensions → Install.
• Demo content ships clean: article hit counters zeroed, no stale post-install messages waiting in the admin, template overrides pre-reviewed, and the footer copyright shows the current year out of the box.
• Extension updates verified current at build time — a fresh install starts with no pending update notices.