A small appearance fix for the log-in page. Joomla 6's “Sign in with a passkey” button ships its icon as an inline graphic with no size set, and because this template pre-dates that style of icon it had nothing to size it against — so the icon expanded to fill the space, appearing as a large black shape across the log-in area. It now renders at normal icon size and takes the button's own colour.

This affects the log-in and registration screens only; nothing else in the template changed. Install the template package over the top — your settings carry over.

Magnetic 6.1.3 is a major rebuild — the first release of this template under Cybersalt, and the first that is Joomla 6 native. The design is deliberately unchanged: the layout, colours, fonts and menu behaviour you chose are all preserved. What changed is everything underneath, so that Magnetic runs cleanly on current Joomla instead of depending on code that Joomla has been retiring since version 4.

If you are already running Magnetic, install the template package over the top — your template settings carry over and no re-configuration is needed.

Joomla 6 native

• Magnetic now installs and runs on Joomla 6.1 without Joomla's backward-compatibility plugin. That plugin exists to keep very old extension code working, and Joomla 6 requires it to be switched off before it will even allow the upgrade. Templates that still need it leave you stuck: turning it off breaks the site, and leaving it on blocks the upgrade. Magnetic has been rewritten to use current Joomla APIs throughout and is tested with that plugin disabled, so your upgrade path to Joomla 6 is clear.
• The template version now matches the Joomla version it is built and tested against. This release is 6.1.3, built for Joomla 6.1.3, and we apply the same convention across the range so the number tells you at a glance which Joomla release it was tested on.

Modern framework

• Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5. Magnetic previously shipped Bootstrap 2, which Joomla dropped years ago. The grid, buttons, forms and drop-downs now use the framework Joomla itself loads, which removes a large duplicate stylesheet from every page and stops the two versions fighting each other over your layout.
• Compatibility layer added for jQuery 3.7. Joomla 6 ships jQuery 3.7, which removed several functions that templates of Magnetic's generation relied on (.live(), .load() as an event, and .offset() on the window). Magnetic now ships a small compatibility script that restores them. Without it the slideshow controls and parallax bands simply stop responding on Joomla 6 — the page looks right but nothing moves.
• Legacy code removed. The old jQuery plugin loaders, Internet-Explorer compatibility code and unused stylesheets have gone. Pages carry less to download and there are no console errors on a standard page load.
• Login and other pop-ups rebuilt on Joomla's current modal, so they open as proper centred dialogs rather than dropping inline into the page.
• The log-in dialog is visible again. Bootstrap 2 marked an open dialog with one class and Bootstrap 5 uses another, so on the mixed stack the dialog opened completely transparent — the page dimmed, keyboard focus moved into a box you could not see, and the only way out was the Escape key.
• Tooltips and popovers no longer render as invisible empty boxes.
• Rows built with floated columns no longer collapse to nothing. A row whose columns all float could end up with no height of its own, so the section appeared empty and whatever followed rode up over it.

The template Options screen

• All 71 colour settings are now real colour pickers. They had been rendering as plain text boxes, so setting a colour meant typing a hex code by hand and guessing at the result. Each one now opens a picker with a live preview.
• Every on/off setting is now a native Joomla switch instead of the old image-based toggle, so the Options screen matches the rest of your administrator and works properly on a phone or tablet.
• The version now displays correctly. Extensions → Manage had been reporting a 2015 date for this template regardless of which build you had installed. It now shows the real release version and date.
• Help text and field labels tidied so long explanations span the form instead of being squeezed into a narrow ribbon.
• Two headings that were meant to display in capitals now do. A find-and-replace in the original build had corrupted the styling rule behind them, so they rendered in ordinary case.

Security hardening

• Settings are now escaped before they are written into your page. Colours, sizes, image paths and text taken from the template's Options screen pass through dedicated escaping helpers — 136 places in the template's main file — instead of being printed raw as the original code did. These are administrator-only settings, so this is hardening rather than the closing of an exposed hole: it removes the class of problem where an unexpected character in a setting could break the page or put unintended markup into it.

Slideshow

• The previous and next arrows can be reached on a touch screen. They had been shown only on mouse-hover, which never happens on a phone or tablet, so the slideshow could not be advanced by hand at all.
• Slide images size correctly and fill the slideshow area instead of overflowing or leaving gaps at some screen widths.

Phones and tablets

• The menu button now sits beside the logo, on the same line. It opens an accordion menu below the header, where opening one section closes the others, so long menus stay manageable on a small screen.
• The menu button can no longer render off the side of the screen — the template's desktop width is now capped to the device width on small screens.
• A new utility row puts account, register, search and social controls together as properly sized touch targets, rather than leaving some of them unreachable.
• Social links open as a centred row in a bar beneath that utility row. They had been rendering as a fixed column pinned to the left edge of the screen, overlapping the page content.
• Sub-menus are no longer clipped when a menu is longer than the screen — they scroll instead of being cut off.
• Dead space above the header removed, and the page can no longer be dragged sideways on a phone.
• The footer menu links no longer disappear on a phone, and the “back to top” control is a proper circle rather than a stretched oval.
• The trail of page names near the top flows on one line instead of rendering as a bulleted list with every step on its own row.
• Account and registration fields fill the width of the screen rather than sitting in a narrow column sized for a two-column desktop layout.

Icons, fonts and menus

• Font Awesome 6 replaces the Font Awesome 4 icon set, so social and interface icons render as sharp glyphs instead of blank squares or stray characters.
• The social network set has been brought up to date — X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Pinterest, Discord and RSS — replacing networks that no longer exist.
• Google Fonts now load through a direct link in the page head rather than through a JavaScript loader, so your heading and body fonts appear immediately instead of after a delay.
• Drop-down menus no longer close before you can reach them. Moving the mouse from a menu heading down to its drop-down crossed a gap where neither was hovered, and the menu closed on the way. The whole path is now hoverable; spacing and appearance are unchanged.
• Pagination arrows render correctly on article lists and blog layouts, where Joomla 4 and later emit an icon set that the old stylesheet did not recognise — they had been showing as empty squares.
• Tall articles are no longer clipped to their title in the featured-article layout.
• The show/hide password control renders as an eye on log-in and registration forms, rather than a small dot.
• Menu modules placed in a sidebar render as a proper vertical list again. Bootstrap 5 redefines the list style those menus use as a horizontal row, so a menu in a left or right column came out as a strip of wrapped, jumbled links.

Forms and search

• Search and text fields keep their proper height. Bootstrap 5 measures a field's box differently from Bootstrap 2, so fields sized by the original design lost their padding out of the declared height — the field shrank and the button beside it was cut off by the row above.
• The search box is a usable size. It had been a roughly 170-pixel panel with a field under 30 pixels tall — cramped on a desktop and unusable on a phone. On phones and tablets it is now a full-width panel directly under the header with a proper touch-sized field, and on a desktop it stays a drop-down under the magnifier but is wide enough to read what you are typing.
• The mobile search button shows a magnifying glass. It had been rendering as a blank white square on a white background, so there was nothing to tell you it was the search button at all.
• The site search now uses Joomla's Smart Search. Magnetic had been carrying Joomla 3's search component, which was removed from Joomla core years ago and would have caused a fatal error the moment the backward-compatibility plugin was switched off. The search box and its menu item keep their labels and position, so nothing changes visually.

Housekeeping

• Leftover K2 language overrides removed, along with build artefacts and stray files that had been shipping inside the package.
• The Quick Start now installs Joomla 6.1.3 and, unlike the older Akeeba-based quick starts, lets you create your own administrator account during installation instead of shipping a shared password.

With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.

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

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

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

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with 5.0.2
  

• Upgraded - Now compatible with PHP 8.2
• Upgraded - Now compatible Joomla 4.3.4

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2