Fusion Changelog

Added

Bootstrap 5 rendering through a compatibility stylesheet

• index.php loads Joomla 6’s bundled Bootstrap 5 (/media/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css) in place of the template’s own Bootstrap 2 sheets (css/bootstrap.css, css/responsive.css and the css/bootstrap/ folder).
• New css/bs2-bs5-bridge.css (revision 2026-10-24.163), linked last in the page head with a file-time version marker, after the template’s own stylesheets. It lets Fusion’s Bootstrap 2 markup render correctly on Bootstrap 5: the .row-fluid / .spanN grid and its phone stacking, the Bootstrap 2 responsive utilities (hidden-phone, hidden-tablet, hidden-desktop and their visible- twins), tab panes, collapse, .well and .page-header, and base typography. It also carries the Fusion-specific rules (phone insets, login and register button alignment, form and button colours, the 1170 px frame, the phone menu button colour).
• New js/cs-jq-compat.js (2,245 bytes): restores the jQuery 1.x calls that Joomla 6’s jQuery 3.7 removed but the bundled Camera slideshow still uses.
• Font Awesome 6.5.2 (all.min.css + v4-shims.min.css from cdnjs) on the front end, including the print and pop-up view. The template’s fa fa-* class names keep working through the shims.

New phone layout

• New js/cs-mobile.js. On phones (up to 767 px) a menu button in the header, filled in the same green as the button row below it with black bars and centred on the logo, opens the main menu as a slide-out panel, with submenus opening in place.
• A row of phone buttons of 44×44 px: a second menu (cs-secondary-toggle), the account button, Search and the social links. The second-menu button reads a new module position, cs-secondary (declared in templateDetails.xml and output in index.php), so a menu module published there appears behind that button.
• Opening a phone panel dims the page below the button row only; the logo, menu button and button row stay clear.
• Phone slideshow. The Camera slideshow now uses a 4:3 slide on phones (height: 75%, no minimum height, set in index.php). The old 2.6:1 slide was a thin strip that its own caption covered completely, so no photo showed. Desktop slideshow sizing is unchanged.
• On the Page Break “Article Index” (Joomla 4+ prints it as a floated card), the card goes full width above the text on phones instead of squeezing the article into a 140 px column.
• On the login page the show password eye sits inside the password field.

Error page

• error.php (new name). The vendor’s download shipped its error page as error_.php, a name Joomla never loads, so a missing page fell back to Joomla’s bare system page with no viewport tag and no template CSS. Fusion’s own error page, rewritten on the Joomla 4+ API, is now in place under the name Joomla uses: “page not found” and “access denied” pages show inside the template, with its header, menus, sidebar, footer and phone navigation, and fit a phone screen.

Template options (administrator)

• New Favicon tab (fieldset faviconsettings, fields favicon and favicontool, field class fields/favicontool.php). Pick one image and the template writes a 32×32 PNG tab icon and a 180×180 Apple touch icon (phFaviconSet(), phIcoBytes() in index.php, cached in images/favicon-generated/); .ico and .svg files pass through as they are, and the template’s favicon.ico is the fallback. With thanks to Gianluca, whose favicon question inspired this tool.
• 10 new language strings (TPL_FUSION_FAVICON_*, TPL_FUSION_FAVICONTOOL_*). The language file goes from 66 to 76 strings.
• Colour pickers. 42 colour settings that were plain text boxes now open the Coloris picker (fields/colorpicker.php, js/coloris.min.js, css/coloris.min.css). The old utils/js_colourchanger/ picker is gone.
• Custom CSS field (customcss, in the Custom Code tab), and support for a css/custom.css file. Both load after the compatibility stylesheet, so your rules win. The file is deliberately not listed in the package, so a template update can never overwrite or remove it, and the field is stored in the database.
• New fields/adminui.php: help rows in the options run the full width of the form, and the template’s Details panel follows Joomla’s light or dark admin theme.
• Template options: 125 → 131 fields, 7 → 8 option groups.

Modern social network support

• Eight new social services, each with its own URL field and show/hide switch: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and Discord. They sit with the existing X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Vimeo fields, all on Font Awesome 6 icons.
• The Twitter slot is now labelled X (formerly Twitter). Social links open with rel="noopener".

Collapsible module styles

• New js/cs-module-toggle.js (3,203 bytes), loaded from index.php with defer. The toggleModule and toggleModule2 module styles in html/layouts/chromes/ print data-cs-toggle; this script is what opens and closes the module.

Changed

Joomla 6 platform

• Built for Joomla 6.2.0 (previous download: version string 06.11.2025 6.0.0), with no need for Joomla’s Backward Compatibility plugin.
• templateDetails.xml version 06.11.2025 6.0.0 → 6.2.0 and creation date 2026-11-06. The version shown in the template description and the @version docblock in index.php match. method="upgrade" is kept, so an existing install updates in place.

Page width

• Desktop pages are 1170 px wide (from 1200 px screens up), like every current Energize Themes template; the template was a fixed 940 px page. The inner boxes keep the template’s own inset and the 920–1000 px background artwork is stretched to the new width. Screens between 980 and 1199 px, tablets and phones keep their layouts.

Defaults for a fresh install

• The site name / logo links to the home page, and the built-in slideshow is switched on with autoplay on desktop and phones. logoLinked, cam_turnOn, cam_autoAdvance and cam_mobileAutoAdvance now default to on; they had no default and started off. Existing sites keep their saved settings.

J3 → J6 API migration

• 19 Joomla 3 static class calls → 0. Each moved to its namespaced Joomla 4+ form (JText → Text, JFactory → Factory and so on). They were in the old error page (13), html/pagination.php (3), html/mod_search/default.php and one more override. In total 18 of the 29 PHP overrides changed.
• html/mod_search/default.php read the Joomla 3 variable $moduleclass_sfx; it now reads the module suffix from the module parameters.
• Template options: 25 on/off settings that were legacy type="checkbox" fields are now Joomla’s radio switcher (for example H1TitleImgText, H2TitleImgText, RSSON, cam_autoAdvance, cam_mobileAutoAdvance). The template has no legacy checkboxes left.

Scripts, fonts and icons

• MooTools code is gone. js/tipz.js and the addEvent script inside toggleModule.php / toggleModule2.php (MooTools calls: 3 → 0) cannot run on Joomla 4 or later. The “Nice tooltips” option (nicetipzlabels) is still on the Options screen, but it no longer loads a script.
• No longer loaded by the page: html5.js (loaded over plain http://), modernizr.js, selectivizr-min.js, superfish.js, supersubs.js, jquery.mobile.customized.min.js, imgSizer.js and the webfont.js loader. jQuery is still loaded: the Camera slideshow needs it. jQuery calls in the template: 29 → 9.
• The Google font (Caudex) now loads through a normal stylesheet link in the page head with display=swap, replacing the WebFontConfig script loader (2 → 0, in index.php and component.php).
• The icons on the template’s Options screen load again. The manifest loaded Font Awesome 4 from MaxCDN, which no longer serves it (MaxCDN references 1 → 0); the screen now uses Font Awesome 6.5.2 with the v4 shims from cdnjs.
• The Camera slideshow scripts (camera.js, camera.min.js, jquery.easing.1.3.js) and selectnav.min.js stay in js/. The folder goes from 28 files to 8.

Template files

• Template stylesheets updated: css/template.css (17,429 → 17,366 bytes), css/layout.css (10,637 → 10,568), css/camera.css (9,969 → 9,628) and the six colour presets css/presets/style1.css–style6.css (about 3,900 → 4,040 bytes each).
• html/layouts/chromes/slides.php, vmdefault.php, toggleModule.php and toggleModule2.php, and the overrides in html/com_content/ (archive, category, featured), html/mod_breadcrumbs, html/mod_login, html/mod_menu and html/mod_search now escape what they print. The login pop-up’s “Create an account” item no longer shows a bare bullet.
• The html/_mod_menu/ folder (a leftover copy of the menu overrides that Joomla never loads) is gone; the live ones in html/mod_menu/ remain.

Fixed

Footer custom code

• Footer custom code. Code entered in the template’s “Insert code into template footer” box was saved but never added to the page. It is now printed just before the closing </body> tag, the same way the header box works.

Pages that failed on Joomla 4+

• Paginated pages returned a 500 on PHP 8. html/pagination.php read $page['data']['active'] as if it were a list, but $page['data'] is a string of link HTML, so PHP 8 stopped with TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string on any paginated blog or list view. The two dead blocks that did nothing but crash are removed, and the Joomla 3 calls in the file went with them.
• Collapsible module style crashed the page. html/layouts/chromes/toggleModule.php had a stray close-tag that stranded $headerLevel and an if( as literal text. The file had a PHP parse error, so any module given that style produced a blank page. The tag is removed.
• Collapsible module styles open and close again. The Toggle Module styles’ old MooTools script, which Joomla 4 and later cannot run, is replaced by a small built-in script.
• Error pages and server details: an error caused by a missing item (for example a missing news feed) no longer prints the server’s file paths and a technical trace outside debug mode; Joomla’s generic message is shown instead. The error page also escapes the message it prints and casts the error code to a number.

Logo and slogan

• The logo and the slogan both link to the home page. The slogan had no link at all, and the logo’s link setting did nothing unless the template style had been saved once. The link is now on unless you switch it off.
• On a site installed at the domain root, the logo link pointed at the current page; it now always goes to the site’s home page.

Maintenance pass

• Pagination arrows: Joomla 4+’s icon-angle-left / -right / -double-left / -double-right buttons had no mapping in the template’s icon CSS, so they showed no arrow. They now show Font Awesome 6 arrows.
• Featured articles: in a one-column featured (home) view, tall intro articles were clipped to their title. They now show in full (.blog-featured .blog-items.columns-1).
• Search button: the global button margin could pull a search button away from its box; search buttons now have margin:0.
• With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.

Removed

Files removed (50)

• Bootstrap 2 and Internet Explorer files (14): css/bootstrap.css, css/bootstrap.zip, the seven files in css/bootstrap/, css/responsive.css and the four IE sheets css/ie.css, ie6.css, ie8.css and ieall.css. Joomla 6’s Bootstrap 5 and the compatibility stylesheet take their place.
• Scripts (24 files from js/): bootstrap.min.js, jquery-1.8.1.min.js, jquery.noConflict.js, jquery.mobile.customized.min.js, modernizr.js, selectivizr-min.js, superfish.js, supersubs.js, hoverIntent.js, imgSizer.js, flexibility.js, tipz.js, dropkick.js, jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js, jquery.selectric.js, jquery.backstretch.min.js, jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js, jquery.equalHeights.js, jquery.nicescroll.min.js, jquery.plusanchor.js, jquery-eu-cookie-law-popup.js, owl.carousel.min.js, scrollReveal.min.js and easypaginate.js.
• error_.php, replaced by error.php (see Added).
• html/_mod_menu/ (5 files), the unused copy of the menu overrides.
• utils/admin-js.js (a Joomla 3-era admin script for the old checkbox switches) and the old utils/js_colourchanger/ colour picker (jscolor.js and its four images).

Retired settings

• Four social slots removed with their switches: Blogger, Digg, MySpace and StumbleUpon.
• The settings that went with the old drop-down menu script: dropheight, dropwidth, dropopacity, dropspeed and dropdownhandler1 (the drop-down column-width settings dropdownhandler2–5 remain).
• The colours_handlers help line that belonged to the old colour-changer.

Security

• Output helpers added in index.php and component.php, 150 calls across the template. Every template setting written into the page is escaped for where it lands:
  • phEsc(): HTML text and attributes.
  • phRichText(): the site-name and slogan fields, which may contain simple markup; scripts, styles, iframes and on* event handlers are stripped.
  • phHexColor(), phCssToken(), phCssNum(), phCssDim(), phCssFont(), phCssSelector(), phCssUrl(): colours, sizes, fonts, selectors and image URLs written into the page’s CSS.
  • phJsStr(), phJsLit(): values written into the slideshow’s inline JavaScript.
• Raw echo $this->params->get(…) output in index.php and component.php: 85 lines (109 occurrences) → 2 lines (2 occurrences), the Header and Footer Custom Code fields (headcode, footercode), which are administrator-only by design. Counts are source lines and occurrences of that exact pattern.
• The logo and slogan image alt text is plain escaped text instead of the raw rich-text field. htmlspecialchars / escape calls in the template: 37 → 76; module titles, menu items and module content written into attributes are escaped in the module chromes and in mod_menu, mod_login and mod_search.
• The error page no longer prints server file paths or a stack trace outside debug mode, escapes the message it prints and casts the error code to a number.

Quickstart

This quickstart is a complete Joomla 6.2.0 site with Fusion pre-configured as the active template, installed with Joomla’s own web installer. It replaces the previous quickstart, an Akeeba Backup archive (.jpa) restored with Kickstart.

• Bundled extensions: Akeeba Backup Core 10.5.0, StageIt 6.6.2, Web Links 5.2.0 and the en-GB language pack 6.2.0.1. The Fusion template package is 6.2.0.
• The demo slideshow shows on the home page only.
• The Smart Search index is built (156 indexed links), so the site search returns results from the first visit.
• The site is not a shop: VirtueMart and K2 are not installed.

Package

• Standalone template: now a Joomla package, pkg_fusion-6.2.0.zip (pkg_fusion.xml), that installs the Fusion template (tpl_fusion.zip) and registers it in the package manager. It declares method="upgrade", so an existing Fusion updates in place, and <blockChildUninstall>true</blockChildUninstall>, so the template is removed through the package rather than on its own.
• Quickstart bundle: a complete Joomla 6.2.0 install with Fusion pre-loaded as the active template.