Phones. The main menu shows its items again, with sub-menus that open with a tap.

Phones. The menus and search panel close when you tap outside them.

Phones. The slogan shows beside the logo instead of behind it.

Phones. The page uses the full screen width.

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.

Phone search. The search button opens the search box under the toolbar, with its search icon.

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

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.

Quickstart. Removed leftover files from the quickstart's top folder.

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.

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.

Joomla 6 fix. Menus that contain an external link, a separator or a menu alias no longer cause an error page on Joomla 6. The template's menu overrides now read menu item settings the Joomla 6 way. There are no visual changes. Recommended for all Joomla 6 sites.

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.

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.

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.

Nexxy 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. Nexxy 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.6. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.6, 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 6.1.2.6. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Nexxy 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 6.1.2.6 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 Font Awesome mapping that restored the password show/hide button and the first/previous/next/last pagination arrows, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Maintenance release. This update is recommended for all users — it removes JavaScript errors that could stop other features on the page from working, and improves the template's behaviour on phones.

• Removed leftover calls to jQuery plugins that are no longer bundled. A call to a missing plugin stops every remaining script in the same block from running, so this can affect features that look unrelated.
• Added a small compatibility layer for three jQuery methods that were removed before the version Joomla 6 ships, so slideshow controls and parallax backgrounds keep working.
• Updated the Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet to the current build.
• The log-in dialog now always opens fully visible. Previously it could open with the page dimmed behind it but the dialog itself invisible.
• Pages no longer scroll sideways on a phone, and the mobile menu, search and social panels are now sized to the screen rather than to the full page width.

• Fixed - the password show/hide button on the login and registration forms was an empty square. Joomla's own icon names are now mapped onto the template's icon font (around thirty icons Joomla uses in front-end views).
• Fixed - the Previous, Next, First and Last pagination buttons were completely blank on category lists and search results.
• Fixed - featured and blog articles could be clipped to just their title in a single-column layout.

Major release ? Nexxy is now genuinely Joomla 6 native. This is the largest update Nexxy has had. The template has been rebuilt from Bootstrap 2 onto Bootstrap 5, every Joomla 3-era programming call has been replaced with its modern Joomla 6 equivalent, the phone experience has been rebuilt, and a long list of faults ? several of which had been quietly broken for years ? has been fixed. The quickstart ships Joomla 6.1.2. Everything below ships in both the standalone package and the quickstart.

With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose question about Joomla 6 readiness prompted this release, and to Zolt?n, whose report led to the login-form fix listed under Fixed.

Added

• Joomla 6 native foundation ? rebuilt on Bootstrap 5 with a compatibility layer that preserves the original Nexxy design while the underlying framework is fully modern. Nexxy no longer depends on Joomla's backwards-compatibility plugin, so it keeps working when that plugin is switched off.
• A real mobile menu. The main menu now opens from a large, easy-to-tap button at the top right. Previously the phone view rendered the entire menu as a permanently expanded list roughly 2,000 pixels tall, pushing every part of the page far below the fold.
• A second menu row on phones ? a utility row with the secondary-menu button on the left and search on the right, evenly spaced, with Login and Register as icons alongside them.
• Search on phones ? opens as a full-width panel with a large field and a visible Search button. Previously the only way to run a search was to press Enter.
• Font Awesome 6.5.2 with version-4 compatibility shims, replacing Font Awesome 4.6.3, which was being loaded from a content delivery network that has since shut down ? so those icons had stopped appearing.
• Modern social networks ? Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Pinterest, Discord and RSS, with X rebranding applied.
• Package-based distribution ? Nexxy now installs as a package and registers with Joomla's own Update Manager, so future releases appear under System ? Update ? Extensions.

Changed

• All 32 template settings switches converted to Joomla's native switch control, so the template settings screen matches the rest of Joomla 6.
• Google Fonts now load through a direct stylesheet link with preconnect and display=swap, replacing the old JavaScript font loader ? text appears sooner.
• The login window is now a properly centred Bootstrap 5 dialog.
• Menu dropdown width still honours the template's own dropdown-width setting.
• Retired dead social networks (Google+, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg, Blogger).
• Footer copyright year rolled forward to the current year.
• Quickstart ships a clean install ? article view counts zeroed, Joomla's setup-nag messages cleared, and leftover unused templates removed, so a new site starts tidy rather than inheriting demo clutter.

Fixed

• The login form could not be used on a phone. The dark overlay sat on top of the form, so nothing could be tapped at all.
• Login fields were unusably small ? 16 pixels tall with 11-pixel text. Now 42 pixels at 16-pixel text, which also stops iPhones zooming the page when you tap into a field.
• Login and registration forms failed on Joomla 5 and later with a behavior::formvalidation not found error, because they used a Joomla 3 validation call removed from Joomla core. (Reported by Zolt?n ? fixed across the whole template range.)
• The footer copyright text failed accessibility contrast ? dark grey on near-black, measured at 2.47:1 where 4.5:1 is required. Now 8.77:1 and slightly larger.
• Social icons were not centred inside their circular backgrounds.
• A large empty band above the slideshow on phones has been removed.
• A JavaScript error on every page load, caused by a jQuery Mobile plugin incompatible with current jQuery. It had already stopped working; the slideshow now offers tap arrows instead.
• The mobile menu stopped switching over after the grid rewrite, because the switch was keyed to old Bootstrap 2 column names.
• The blog sidebar dropped below the article column at tablet widths, and Read More buttons rendered as solid dark blocks.
• The menu bar sank into the slideshow by roughly 90 pixels.
• Login and Register stacked below the header on narrow desktops instead of sitting top-right.
• The site's own opening <html> tag was being stripped during modernization, and the donor was loading two competing stylesheet stacks.
• Login form fields now declare autocomplete, so browsers and password managers fill them correctly.
• Error and component pages were still loading the retired font-loader script.
• Template documentation icons in the Joomla admin pointed at the shut-down content delivery network.

Removed

• Internet Explorer conditional blocks and related workarounds.
• Bootstrap 2 framework files.
• Retired JavaScript libraries: superfish, supersubs, backstretch, the jQuery.browser shim, and jQuery Mobile.

Security

• Output escaping applied throughout the template (94 locations).
• Direct-access guards confirmed on every template entry point.
• External links now carry rel="noopener".

Known limitations

• The slideshow still uses the camera.js library; migration to a modern slideshow is scheduled for a later release.

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.2
• Minor Bugs fixed

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

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4?

• Fixed - Menu Params error fixed
• ?Fixed - Template toggle button not displaying

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4?