Added

Bootstrap 5 compatibility layer

• New css/bs2-bs5-bridge.css. It lays out Evo Store’s Bootstrap 2 markup on Joomla 5’s bundled Bootstrap 5:
  • The Bootstrap 2 grid: .row-fluid rows and .spanN columns (also inside Bootstrap 5 .row containers), .offsetN, row clearfix, and the 1,170 px container width.
  • The Bootstrap 2 helpers: hidden-phone / visible-phone and the other responsive utilities, pull-left / pull-right, tab panes, collapse, the .in → .show state of dialogs, and base body type.
  • Phone stacking of .spanN and .col-md-N columns.
  • Joomla’s own icon classes (icon-eye on password fields, icon-angle-left / -right / -double-left / -double-right on pagination) mapped to Font Awesome 6 glyphs in the colour of the button they sit on. The Bootstrap 2 Glyphicons sprite is retired.
• The bridge is the last stylesheet in the page head, with a file-time version marker, so its rules sit above the template’s own CSS and a change shows straight after an update.
• New js/cs-jq-compat.js: restores three jQuery 1.x calls that Joomla 5’s jQuery 3 removed and the bundled scripts still use (.live(), used by the camera slideshow’s play/stop controls; .offset() on the window; .load(fn) as a load-event shortcut), plus a harmless selectnav() fallback for menu code pasted into module content.

Phone layout (up to 767 px)

• New js/cs-mobile.js. A menu button in the logo row opens a slide-in drawer built from the site’s real nested menu. Sub-menus open in place when you tap the control beside a parent item.
• A phone toolbar under the header with six 44×44 px buttons: Section menu (the shop menu), Log in, Register, Search (a full-width search panel with its own Search button), Follow us (the social links) and Cart. All six are white with dark icons.
• The cart is reachable on a phone. New js/cs-cart-into-utility.js moves VirtueMart’s own cart control into the toolbar at phone width and puts it back in the desktop header on a wider screen. Nothing is copied, so VirtueMart’s cart handlers and item count keep working. Before, the cart sat in a desktop-only header area with no phone equivalent.
• The shop menu module is hidden on phones, where the drawer and the Section menu button carry the same links. It is unchanged on desktop.
• Form fields reach the 16 px size below which iPhones zoom the page on tap and do not zoom back out (16 px text, 44 px height): the login and account fields, the twelve VirtueMart registration fields (12 px before), the currency selector (12 px) and its button (13 px), the products-per-page selector (12 px) and the cart’s coupon box (9 px).
• Brand logos in the manufacturer module sit two to a row instead of one per row, and the footer payment-methods image is centred.
• The page cannot be pushed sideways, and empty header and search bands take no space.

Password show/hide

• New js/cs-password-reveal.js: an eye button on password fields that Joomla does not already decorate, such as the header login form, so you can check what you typed. Fields that already have Joomla’s own control are left alone, so no field shows two. On phones the eye sits inside the field. The password is hidden again when the form is submitted.

Favicon tool

• New Favicon tab (fieldset faviconsettings) with a media field (favicon) and a crop tool (favicontool, field class fields/favicontool.php). Pick one image and the template builds favicon.ico (16, 32 and 48 px), 32, 192 and 512 px PNGs and a 180 px Apple touch icon, and links them for you. With thanks to Gianluca, whose favicon question inspired this tool.
• Two new helpers in index.php produce the set: phFaviconSet() and phIcoBytes().
• 10 new language strings in en-GB.tpl_evostore.ini (70 → 80), e.g. TPL_EVOSTORE_FAVICON_TAB, TPL_EVOSTORE_FAVICON_LABEL, TPL_EVOSTORE_FAVICONTOOL_CREATE.

Colour picker and Options screen

• New custom field fields/colorpicker.php with the open-source Coloris picker shipped inside the template (js/coloris.min.js, css/coloris.min.css), so nothing is loaded from another site. All 65 colour settings are now type="colorpicker" with a live swatch: color1–color72, sitenamecolor, slogancolor, menubackgroundcolor, cam_loaderColor and cam_loaderBgColor.
• New fields/adminui.php: help banners run across the full width of the Options screen instead of a narrow column, and the template’s Details panel follows Joomla’s light or dark admin theme.

Modern social network support

• Eight new social services, each with a URL field and an on/off switch, off by default: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord (instagram/instagramON … discord/discordON). With X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Vimeo and RSS that makes twelve networks plus RSS.
• New URL fields default to #TYPE-URL-HERE, and the Twitter slot is labelled X (formerly Twitter).

Security helpers

• Three helper functions at the top of index.php: phEsc(), phHexColor() and phCssDim(), each guarded with function_exists(). Details under Security.

Changed

Joomla 5 platform

• Built for Joomla 5.4.8 and VirtueMart 4.8.0 (the previous download was labelled for Joomla 5.1.2 and VirtueMart 4.2.12).
• The template loads Joomla 5’s Bootstrap 5 (/media/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css, plus bootstrap.rtl.min.css on right-to-left sites) instead of its own Bootstrap 2 files css/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css, bootstrap-responsive.min.css and bootstrap-extended.css.
• Layout markup in index.php: 15 .row-fluid rows are now .row, and the page’s columns use Bootstrap 5 classes (span5 / span7 header → col-md-5 / col-md-7, the side columns col-md-3, the main column col-md-6 / -9 / -12, the module rows col-md-2 to col-md-12): col-md- 0 → 45. The menu bar and footer columns keep spanN and are laid out by the bridge.
• The template’s own stylesheets carry the Bootstrap 5 class next to each Bootstrap 2 selector they style (for example .row-fluid .product + .row .product, .span6.floatleft + .col-md-6.floatleft), in layout.css, template.css, virtuemart.css, responsive-template.css and the print-only bootstrap.css / responsive.css.
• templateDetails.xml version 16.12.2024 5.1.2/4.2.12 → 5.4.8. The Description tab shows “Template Version: 5.4.8”, and the @version docblock in index.php matches.

J3 → J5 API migration

• All 154 Joomla 3 static class calls removed, each moved to its namespaced Joomla 4+ form: JRoute → Route, JText → Text, JHtml / JHTML → HTMLHelper, JFactory → Factory, JPluginHelper → PluginHelper, JModuleHelper → ModuleHelper, JComponentHelper → ComponentHelper, JDocumentHTML → HtmlDocument, and the rest.
• Template files (calls before → after):
  • error.php 13 → 0, including JError::raiseWarning() (removed in Joomla 4) → new Exception(…, 404); index.php 9 → 0; component.php 1 → 0.
  • html/mod_login/default.php 22 → 0; html/com_virtuemart/user/login.php 19 → 0, edit_address.php 6 → 0.
  • html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default.php 16 → 0, plus default_images.php 4, default_reviews.php 4, default_addtocart.php 3, default_customfields.php 1 and default_showcategory.php 1 → 0.
  • html/com_virtuemart/cart/default_pricelist.php 9 → 0, default_shopperform.php 6, default.php 1, default_coupon.php 1 → 0.
  • html/com_virtuemart/category/default.php 6 → 0, categories.php 1 → 0; html/com_virtuemart/virtuemart/default_products.php 6 → 0, default.php 1, default_categories.php 1 → 0; html/com_virtuemart/askquestion/form.php 3 → 0.
  • html/mod_virtuemart_product/single.php 8 → 0, default.php 6 → 0; html/mod_menu/default.php 2; html/mod_virtuemart_currencies/default.php 2; html/mod_breadcrumbs/default.php, html/mod_search/default.php, html/mod_virtuemart_cart/default.php and html/mod_virtuemart_manufacturer/default.php → 0.
• In all, 27 of the 59 PHP overrides under html/ were modified.

Template Options screen

• 98 field type changes in templateDetails.xml: 33 legacy class="switch" checkboxes are now Joomla’s native on/off switchers (type="radio", layout="joomla.form.field.radio.switcher"), for example logoLinked, H1TitleImgText, H2TitleImgText, usedropdown, cam_turnOn, cam_autoAdvance, vmtsl_auto, useZoom and usetheme; and the 65 colour settings changed from text to colorpicker. With the new social switches the template has 41 switchers and no legacy checkboxes (38 before).
• Fields 166 → 175, tabs 9 → 10. Tab names are shorter: Basic, Site Name & Slogan, Drop Down Menu, Header & Footer Custom Code, Built-in Slideshow, Product Slider, Product Images, Theme.

Fonts and icons

• The Google Fonts WebFontConfig JavaScript loader (webfont.js from ajax.googleapis.com) is replaced by a direct stylesheet link for Raleway with preconnect hints and display=swap (WebFontConfig 1 → 0).
• Front end: Font Awesome 4.6.3 from the shut-down MaxCDN (font-awesome.min.css) → Font Awesome 6.5.2 from cdnjs (all.min.css + v4-shims.min.css), so existing fa fa-* class names keep working.
• The social links are Font Awesome 6 brand glyphs (fab fa-*) with a screen-reader label, in place of one PNG image per network (twitter.png, facebook.png and so on).
• The header cart button shows the Font Awesome 6 trolley in place of the cart-icon.png sprite, so the desktop header and the phone toolbar use the same mark.

Login dialog

• The account link opens the login dialog (#LoginForm) with Bootstrap 5’s data-bs-toggle="modal" and data-bs-target instead of Bootstrap 2’s data-toggle. The dialog has the Bootstrap 5 .modal-dialog.modal-dialog-centered > .modal-content structure, and its inline display:none is gone.
• The Close link is now a <button> with data-bs-dismiss="modal"; its inline jQuery .hide() / .modal('hide') handler and the jQuery .toggle() on the account link are removed.

Menus, background and selects without old jQuery plug-ins

• Drop-down menus open on hover through nav.css and the bridge instead of the Superfish/Supersubs plug-ins. A transparent strip spans the gap between a menu heading and its drop-down, so the menu stays open while the pointer moves down to it. Because of this, the Drop Down Menu tab’s animation settings (dropopacity, dropheight, dropwidth, dropspeed) and the first drop-down width (dropdownhandler1) no longer have an effect.
• The body background image (bodybackgroundimage) is set with CSS (background-size: cover, centred, fixed) instead of jQuery.backstretch.
• The currency selector is a plain HTML select instead of DropKick.
• The menu modules no longer build a selectnav select box: the selectnav() call is removed from html/mod_menu/default.php, and the phone drawer takes its place.

Stylesheets and scripts

• Every local stylesheet link (blog.css, template.css, text.css, layout.css, nav.css, typography.css, responsive-template.css, print.css, virtuemart.css, camera.css, the bridge), the new helper scripts and the favicon carry a version marker (?v= file time), so changes show straight after an update instead of waiting for browser caches to expire. The slideshow scripts are not covered yet.
• Template-side jQuery call sites: 110 → 89 (in index.php 46 → 35).

Template overrides

• html/mod_login/default.php: $type = $type ?? 'login';, and html/mod_breadcrumbs/default.php: $moduleclass_sfx = $moduleclass_sfx ?? '';. Joomla 5 no longer passes these variables to the layouts. See Fixed.

Fixed

Pages that returned a server error

• The shop’s login page returned a server error on Joomla 5. The VirtueMart login override (html/com_virtuemart/user/login.php) called JHtml::_('behavior.formvalidation') and JHtml::_('behavior.modal'), which Joomla removed (“behavior::formvalidation not found”), and JDispatcher::getInstance(), a class that no longer exists. A customer trying to sign in got an error page instead of a login form. It now uses behavior.formvalidator, drops the modal call, and triggers plgVmDisplayLogin through Factory::getApplication()->triggerEvent(). With thanks to Zoltán Szász, whose report led us to this fault.

Browser errors and dead requests

• The previous version logged two JavaScript errors on every page under Joomla 5’s jQuery, desktop and phone, one of them $(...).live is not a function from the slideshow. This release logs none.
• “Undefined variable” warnings from the login module ($type) and the breadcrumbs module ($moduleclass_sfx) on Joomla 5.
• The slideshow and menu colour blend for old Internet Explorer wrote an empty colour: rm_hash() in index.php had no return, so all four of its call sites printed nothing. It now returns the validated colour.

Maintenance pass

• The @font-face in css/template.css pointing at the removed media/jui/fonts/ IcoMoon font is disabled; it returned a 404 on every page.
• Joomla’s own icons no longer render as empty squares: the show/hide control on password fields and the Previous, Next, First and Last buttons on article and category listings.
• Featured-article intro text is no longer clipped to its title (.blog-featured .blog-items / .blog-item).
• The search button sits flush with its search box (#search-position .btn margin 0).
• selectnav.min.js is no longer loaded on every page.
• With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.

Removed

Legacy scripts and stylesheets no longer loaded

• Scripts: superfish.js, supersubs.js, jquery.backstretch.min.js, jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js, jquery.mobile.customized.min.js, selectnav.min.js, modernizr.js, selectivizr-min.js, html5.js (html5shiv from googlecode.com) and Google’s webfont.js. The template’s own files remain in js/ (26 → 31 files) but nothing loads them.
• The inline jQuery.browser Internet Explorer shim and the Superfish/Supersubs, DropKick and Backstretch start-up code.
• Stylesheets: the Bootstrap 2 files in css/bootstrap/ (they remain in the folder), the Font Awesome 4.6.3 stylesheet from MaxCDN, and the Internet Explorer files ie.css, ie6.css and ie9-10.css with their conditional comments (the files remain in css/).

Old colour picker and archives

• utils/js_colourchanger/ (jscolor.js, arrow.gif, cross.gif, hs.png, hv.png) and the colours_handlers field whose inline script attached a jscolor picker to each colour box.
• Three archives left inside the template: css/bootstrap.zip, html/com_virtuemart/askquestion.zip and html/mod_menu.zip.

Retired social services

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

Security

• Template settings written into the page are escaped or validated at 124 places in index.php, through the new helpers:
  • phEsc() (53, plus 8 on the generated favicon links) for HTML text and attributes and for values inside the inline <style> and scripts: the content, site-name and slogan font sizes, the site-name and slogan positions, the site-name, slogan and menu background colours, the header social-panel label and height, the drop-down column widths (dropdownhandler2–5), the slideshow minimum height and caption position, the menu, quote-band and body background images, the logo and slogan images, the theme preset name, every social link URL and the custom social icon classes.
  • phHexColor() (67) for 57 colour settings: color1–color72 in the inline colour stylesheet and the slideshow’s cam_loaderColor / cam_loaderBgColor. Anything that is not a hex colour falls back to a fixed colour. rm_hash() also validates through it.
  • phCssDim() (1) for the header height (topheight), and an integer cast for the slideshow loader size (cam_pieDiameter, 3 places).
• The Site Name and Slogan text (H1Title / H2Title) are written through phEsc() as plain text.
• Social links that open in a new tab carry rel="noopener" (18 links).
• htmlspecialchars / escape calls across the template: 37 → 43.

Quickstart Installer

The Quickstart (EvoStore-5.4.8-Quickstart.zip) is a complete Joomla 5.4.8 site with VirtueMart 4.8.0 and Evo Store installed as the active template, with the demo content.

• It installs through Joomla’s standard web installer, replacing the previous Akeeba Backup archive (.jpa) and Kickstart.
• Bundled extensions: Akeeba Backup 10.4.0, Weblinks 5.1.0, Search 4.0.0, MCP For J 2.6.0 and StageIt 5.7.3.
• Only the templates the site uses are included: cassiopeia, evostore and system for the site, atum and VirtueMart’s vmadmin for the administrator. The leftover VirtueMart demo templates horme_3, vmbasic and vmbeez3 are gone.
• The two VirtueMart 3 Klarna payment plugins (plg_vmpayment_klarna, plg_vmpayment_klarnacheckout) are removed. VirtueMart 4 does not ship them, their update listing never offered a usable download, and no payment method or order used them.
• An orphaned template style left over from another template is removed, and the VirtueMart admin template’s style, which showed the untranslated key JLIB_INSTALLER_DEFAULT_STYLE, is titled “Vmadmin - Default”.
• A clean starting state: article and VirtueMart product view counters start at zero; 12 of the 16 post-installation messages (robots.txt, statistics, web-server advisories and similar) are dismissed, while Joomla’s own prompts about action logs, privacy, multi-factor authentication and automatic updates stay on; two update-site addresses (plg_vmpayment_eway, plg_vmuserfield_realex_hpp_api) had a stray line break in front of the URL, which is trimmed.

Package format

• Standalone template: pkg_evostore-5.4.8.zip, a Joomla package (pkg_evostore.xml) that installs the evostore template extension and registers it in the package manager. It declares method="upgrade" and <blockChildUninstall>true</blockChildUninstall>, so the template is removed through the package rather than on its own. The previous download was the bare template zip.
• Quickstart bundle: EvoStore-5.4.8-Quickstart.zip, a complete Joomla 5.4.8 install with VirtueMart 4.8.0 and Evo Store pre-loaded as the active template.