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Brilliance 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: your layout, colours, fonts and menu choices all carry over. What changed is everything underneath, so that Brilliance runs cleanly on current Joomla instead of depending on code Joomla has been retiring since version 4.

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

With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to a maintenance pass across our templates. Several of the fixes below came out of it.

Joomla 6 native

• Brilliance 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 switched off before it will allow the upgrade at all. Templates that still need it leave you stuck: turning it off breaks the site, leaving it on blocks the upgrade. Brilliance now uses current Joomla APIs throughout and is tested with that plugin disabled.
• The template version matches the Joomla version it is built and tested against — this release is 6.1.3, built for Joomla 6.1.3. The version shown on the template's own settings screen now agrees with it; it had been showing a 2024 date stamp.

Modern framework

• Bootstrap 5 is actually loading now. This is the big one. Brilliance loads its stylesheets as plain <link> tags rather than through Joomla's own asset system, and the Bootstrap 5 core was never reaching the page — all eight layout rows on the home page were computing as unstyled blocks instead of grid rows. Bootstrap 5 is now wired in properly and the grid behaves as designed.
• Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5. Brilliance previously shipped Bootstrap 2, which Joomla dropped years ago. The grid, buttons, forms and drop-downs now use the framework Joomla itself loads, instead of two versions fighting over your layout.
• Compatibility layer added for jQuery 3.7. Joomla 6 ships jQuery 3.7, which removed several functions templates of Brilliance's generation relied on.
• Uncaught JavaScript errors on every page load are gone. The menu override was still calling selectnav(), a library that had already been removed — every page threw a "selectnav is not defined" error, which stopped the rest of that script block from running. The Internet-Explorer browser-detection shim, and the old drop-down hover libraries, are gone too.
• The collapsible module panels work again. Three files that ship with the template were still written for MooTools — a JavaScript framework Joomla stopped bundling at version 3 — so the show/hide chrome on those modules had quietly done nothing for years. Rewritten to run without any framework at all.
• Collapsed sub-menus take up no space. A closed accordion section was still occupying its full open height, so a sidebar menu could push everything below it far down the page.
• Tabbed modules show one tab at a time, instead of rendering every panel at once, stacked down the page.
• Log-in and other pop-ups rebuilt on Joomla's current modal, including the close control, so the dialog opens, closes and re-opens correctly.
• The log-in dialog is visible — on the mixed framework stack it could open completely transparent, dimming the page around a box you could not see.
• Internet Explorer compatibility code and unused stylesheets removed, along with five legacy loaders the page no longer needs.

Layout

• The template's fixed width is now 1440 pixels, and the whole page shares it. The header, menu and slideshow were pinned to 960 pixels while the breadcrumb, side column and article body ran the full width of the monitor.
• The header is its full height again, and the slideshow below it is full width. A change in how Bootstrap 5 measures boxes shrank the header and let its contents spill out of the bottom, which in turn squeezed the slideshow band into a narrow strip off to one side.
• The fixed header sits at the top of the page at full width, instead of shrinking to the width of its own contents and dropping below a band of empty space, and it is no longer painted underneath the slideshow — it was present and correctly sized but completely hidden behind the slides.
• The header no longer stacks the logo, menu and top links one above another. Plain wrapper rows were being treated as grid rows, which forced every child to full width.
• Sections no longer stack on top of one another. Bands whose contents are all floated were collapsing to no height at all, so everything below was pulled up over the top of them.
• Sidebar and footer menu modules list vertically again. Bootstrap 5 redefined the list class Joomla uses for every menu module, which turned those menus sideways into a wrapping row of links and knocked everything below them out of position.
• Side-column modules are their own height. A module set to full height was stretching to the height of the entire row and shoving the modules below it off the bottom of the page.
• The footer no longer paints over the end of a long article list — the panel behind the content column now grows with the column instead of stopping short.
• Page content is no longer shifted off-centre by padding Bootstrap 5 adds and Bootstrap 2 did not.
• Featured articles are no longer clipped to their titles when the featured view is set to a single column.
• Article details wrap instead of running off the page. Written by, Category, Published and Hits were held on one unbreakable line, running past the edge of the content column on a phone and breaking mid-phrase on a desktop.

Sideways scrolling

• Pages no longer scroll sideways. This had several separate causes, all now fixed: drop-down panels parked off-screen were still counted in the page width, a row holding wide content refused to shrink to its container, the search field kept a fixed width inside a column the design narrows, and on phones the layout was sized against the overflow rather than the screen.
• Breadcrumbs stay on the page at tablet and small-desktop widths. On article and account pages the row holding them collapsed to no width, so the trail ran off the right-hand edge.

Icons

• Font Awesome updated from 4 to 6.5.2, with the version-4 compatibility shims kept so existing icon names in your content keep working.
• A missing icon font is no longer requested on every page. The stylesheet pointed at media/jui/fonts/, a folder Joomla removed at version 4 — so every page load fetched four font files that were not there, and the search icon rendered as a stray character.
• The old Bootstrap 2 icon sprite no longer peeks out from behind the new icons. A leftover glyph was still painting in the corner of icon elements, behind the Font Awesome one.
• Pagination arrows render as arrows. Joomla 4 and later emit icon classes the old icon stylesheet never mapped, which left the First / Previous / Next / Last buttons as empty squares.
• Joomla's passkey sign-in button is a normal size. Its icon carries no size of its own, so it expanded to fill the button — a large black passkey glyph painted across the log-in area.
• The show/hide-password eye takes the colour of the button it sits on. Drawn in fixed white, only its dark pupil showed on a pale button, so the control read as a single dot until you hovered it.

Social links

• The social bar has been brought up to date. Five networks that no longer exist were removed — Google+, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blogger — and eight current ones added: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and Discord. Twitter is now X, with the current logo.
• Social icons show one icon each — the template's old icon image was still painting behind the new one, so two glyphs stacked inside one small box.
• The social icons sit centred in their circles, and the links carry proper labels for screen readers and open with the security attributes modern browsers expect.
• The "Follow Us" pull-tab no longer leaves a dead bar across the foot of a phone page. It only ever opened on hover, so it could not be used by touch at all, and its links are already in the phone menu.

Slideshow

• The home-page slideshow has been rebuilt on a current engine. The original slideshow script is unmaintained and does not survive modern jQuery; Brilliance now uses Swiper, keeping the same cross-fade.
• Slides sit at the top of the slideshow. A caption rule written for the old script also matched the new one and pushed every slide down by a third of the slideshow's height, leaving a white band above it and clipping the caption's button off the bottom.
• Slide captions are legible. They were white text on the pale panel the slides ship with — measured at a contrast ratio of 1.1:1, which is not "hard to read", it is invisible. The caption now uses the template's own dark text colour, at 11:1.
• The slideshow is a proper band on a phone instead of a sliver. Its height is a proportion of its width, which works out at about 77 pixels on a phone, with the caption overflowing well past the bottom. It now keeps a sensible minimum height, with caption text sized for a phone screen.

Mobile

• Brilliance has a proper mobile header. It ships a menu button, a slide-in menu with expandable sub-menus, and a row of controls for account, register, search and social links. The old phone menu was a flat list with no way to open sub-menus.
• The site logo shows on a phone again. It was being painted over by the new control row — the template positions the brand out of the normal flow, so it took up no space and the row landed on top of it.
• The menu button is centred on the brand, and its bars are centred inside it, and sized to match the controls beside it rather than standing noticeably larger than them.
• The icons in the phone control row are legible. Several were inheriting the header's white and landing on a white button — not faint, but blank — and the row's own colours were being repainted by the template's general button styling.
• The phone controls use your template's own colours, read from the template rather than inherited from a different one.
• The row of controls fits the screen and is evenly spaced. Its buttons had been running past both edges with uneven gaps, because two spacing systems were in play at once.
• The search button inside the phone search panel is visible — it was a blank white square on a white panel with nothing to show it was a search control.
• The "+" buttons that open sub-menus in the phone menu are readable; they were white on a light brand colour, well below a readable contrast.
• Two empty bands are gone from phone pages — a tall strip of header colour reserved for controls that moved into the new row, and a band of white under the breadcrumb bar reserved for a search box that is no longer there.
• The decorative band behind the brand no longer leaves a grey slab beside the logo, which had also made the menu button look tilted against it.
• Breadcrumbs flow as one line rather than stacking one crumb per row with a bullet beside each.
• Module content no longer runs off the right edge of a phone screen.
• Contact and other component forms stack to full width on a phone, with fields tall enough to tap, instead of squeezing a desktop two-column form into a phone-width column — and headings no longer sit hard against the screen edge while the text beside them is inset.
• Footer menu links show on a phone again (they were being caught by the rule that hides the desktop navigation), footer social icons are centred, the back-to-top control is a circle with its arrow centred in it, and the account and register links no longer appear twice.

Menus

• Drop-down menus stay open while you move onto them. There was a band of dead space between a menu item and its sub-menu, so the menu closed before the pointer arrived. Third-level menus now fly out beside their parent instead of dropping behind it.
• The old phone menu button no longer appears on a desktop. A retired mobile toggle was rendering at every width, alongside the real navigation.
• Sidebar menus open one level at a time on a desktop. A menu module with sub-items was rendering every level expanded — every page in the menu printed as one long flat list.
• Menu items pointing at software that is not installed have been cleared out, along with left-over language overrides from components this template does not ship. These rendered in the navigation and returned a "not found" page when clicked.

Forms, log in and search

• The show/hide-password control is a proper button beside the password field. It had come apart from the field entirely — wrapping onto its own line below it and shrinking to a 42×17 pixel sliver.
• The "Remember me" box in the log-in dialog is a checkbox again. It had been stretching to the full width of the dialog on a line of its own, and the helper links under it rendered as a bulleted list.
• The dead arrow beside the Log in button is gone. Tapping it submitted the form with an empty password and threw you out to an error page — and the forgotten-password, forgotten-username and create-account links it was hiding were unreachable by any other route. Those three links are now shown in the dialog itself.
• The social panel on a phone actually contains its icons. They were being dragged out of the panel as it opened, so it appeared to open empty.
• The search box is a usable size. It opened as a roughly 170-pixel drop-down with a 29-pixel-tall field; it is now full width under the header on a phone and at least 320 pixels wide on a desktop.
• The search field is its full height, so its button is not cut off. Bootstrap 5 measures field height differently from Bootstrap 2, which took height out of the field and left the row too short for the button inside it.
• The search button sits against its search field instead of drifting away from it, and the search box is centred in its bar rather than hugging the top with empty space beneath — the bar itself is now only as tall as it needs to be.
• The stray "Search" label above the search box is gone. It is hidden from view and still read out to screen readers, which is what it was always meant to do.
• "Login Form" in the header bar lines up with the links beside it instead of sitting at the top of its control, and the quick links in the top bar sit on the middle of the bar rather than a few pixels above it.
• The account-creation page no longer stacks modules above the form. Four sample modules were pushing the first field roughly 900 pixels down the page.

Security and PHP 8

• Output is escaped throughout the template. Template settings and content written into the page now pass through dedicated escaping helpers, closing off cross-site-scripting through template parameters.
• Retired Joomla 3 behaviour calls removed. These are fatal on Joomla 5 and later — a page that hit one returned a 500 error rather than rendering.
• All template PHP is syntax-checked as part of the build, and the packaged template carries no stray server logs or backup files.

Template settings

• The template's own settings screens are Joomla 5/6 native. 32 on/off controls used a Joomla 3 markup pattern that no longer renders as a switch; all are now native switches.
• Fixed corrupted styling on the settings screen. A find-and-replace during an earlier rebrand had rewritten a CSS property name itself, so two rules on the Options screen were invalid.
• The version and details Joomla shows for the template are rebuilt from the template's own manifest, so Extensions → Manage no longer reports stale information.

Housekeeping

• Demo page-view counters reset (27,082 recorded views cleared), stale copyright years brought to 2026, and installation messages tidied.
• Copyright, author and support details are now Cybersalt's.

Brilliance was rebuilt and verified by driving the rendered site — page types at phone, tablet and desktop widths, checked for JavaScript errors, layout overflow, contrast, and every control reported during testing — not by reading the files alone.

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

Maintenance release.

• Updated the Bootstrap 2→5 compatibility stylesheet to the current version, bringing this template in line with the rest of the range.
• Fixed: paginated pages returned a 500 error on PHP 8. Any page with pagination — on a shop template that includes the category listing — could fail with a server error instead of displaying. The cause was a leftover test in the pagination override that is invalid on PHP 8; the dead code has been removed.

Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.

Creativa 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. Creativa 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.5. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.5, 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 6.1.2.5. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Creativa 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 6.1.2.5 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 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, and the collapsible module chromes retain MooTools code that no longer runs, so those chromes do not collapse. These are carried-forward behaviours, not regressions introduced here, and addressing 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.

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

• Minor Bugs fixed

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

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

Diversity 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: your layout, colours, fonts and menu choices all carry over. What changed is everything underneath, so that Diversity runs cleanly on current Joomla instead of depending on code Joomla has been retiring since version 4.

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

Joomla 6 native

• Diversity 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 switched off before it will allow the upgrade at all. Templates that still need it leave you stuck: turning it off breaks the site, leaving it on blocks the upgrade. Diversity now uses current Joomla APIs throughout and is tested with that plugin disabled.
• The template version matches the Joomla version it is built and tested against — this release is 6.1.3, built for Joomla 6.1.3.

Fixed: interior pages were not getting the template's styling

• Every page except the home page was missing a stylesheet. The modernized stylesheet was being loaded only on pages that carry a slideshow, so article pages, blog layouts, contact pages and the rest fell back to the original desktop-only layout — on a phone they could be dragged sideways, the menu button did not appear, and the header overlapped the content. It now loads on every page, as it always should have.
• The footer no longer prints on top of your article. The decorative panels that draw the shadows down either side of the content column were locking to a fixed height instead of following the text inside them, so on a long page the content overflowed its own panel and the next band painted straight over the end of the article.

Modern framework

• Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5. Diversity previously shipped Bootstrap 2, which Joomla dropped years ago. The grid, buttons, forms and drop-downs now use the framework Joomla itself loads — removing a large duplicate stylesheet from every page and stopping the two versions fighting over your layout.
• Compatibility layer added for jQuery 3.7. Joomla 6 ships jQuery 3.7, which removed several functions templates of Diversity's generation relied on. Without the new compatibility script the slideshow controls and parallax bands stop responding on Joomla 6 — the page looks right but nothing moves.
• Legacy code removed — old jQuery plugin loaders, Internet-Explorer compatibility code and unused stylesheets.
• Login and other pop-ups rebuilt on Joomla's current modal, and the log-in dialog is visible again — on the mixed stack it could open completely transparent, dimming the page around a box you could not see.
• Tooltips and popovers no longer render as invisible empty boxes.

The template Options screen

• All 18 colour settings are real colour pickers with a live preview, instead of plain text boxes needing a hand-typed hex code.
• Every on/off setting is a native Joomla switch, so the Options screen matches the rest of your administrator and works on a phone or tablet.
• The version displays correctly. Extensions → Manage had been reporting a much older version for this template regardless of the build installed.
• A new Favicon tab lets you select any image and have the template build every icon size browsers and devices ask for, with a crop tool for non-square images.
• Tab names and headings tidied, and two headings that were meant to be uppercase now render that way.
• The social-network icons beside the Options fields render properly instead of as blank squares, having moved to the same Font Awesome 6 set as the rest of the template.

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 — 77 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.

Log-in and registration pages

• The promotional module rows no longer appear above the log-in and registration forms — those pages now show the form itself.
• Only one log-in form on the log-in page. A second copy had been appearing above it, which on a phone was the one you met first.
• The “Sign in with a passkey” icon renders at normal size. Joomla 6 supplies that icon without a size, and because this template pre-dates that style of icon it expanded to fill the space, appearing as a large dark shape across the log-in area.

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.
• Slide images size correctly instead of overflowing or leaving gaps at some screen widths.

Phones and tablets

• The menu button sits beside the logo and opens an accordion menu below the header, where opening one section closes the others.
• Your logo stays inside the header. On interior pages the logo was being positioned by a fixed distance from the top of a much shorter strip, which dropped it below its own header and buried it under the row of account and social controls — so on a phone the logo effectively disappeared and the log-in link sat over the page text.
• A utility row puts account, register, search and social controls together as properly sized touch targets.
• The search button shows a magnifying glass. It had been rendering as a blank white square on a white background, so on a phone there was nothing to tell you it was the search button at all.
• Stray marks beside the social icons removed — each had picked up a small bullet graphic from the template's general list styling.
• Sub-menus scroll instead of being cut off when a menu is longer than the screen, and the page can no longer be dragged sideways.
• The trail of page names near the top stays on one line instead of wrapping over several, and no longer leaves a band of empty grey behind it.
• The footer menu links no longer disappear on a phone, the “back to top” control is a proper circle rather than a stretched oval, and account and registration fields fill the width of the screen instead of sitting in a narrow column.

Icons, fonts and menus

• Font Awesome 6 replaces the Font Awesome 4 icon set, so icons render as sharp glyphs instead of blank squares.
• The social icons in the header are visible again. The original design hid the text of each social link by pushing it far off the left of the screen and painting a picture behind it; once the icons became real glyphs they inherited that shove and went off-screen with the text.
• The social network set is up to date — X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Pinterest, Discord and RSS.
• Drop-down menus no longer close before you can reach them. Moving the mouse from a heading down to its drop-down crossed a gap where neither was hovered.
• Previous and next article arrows render again. They rely on an icon set the original stylesheet did not recognise, so the buttons had been showing as bare text.
• Pagination arrows render correctly on article lists and blog layouts, and tall articles are no longer clipped to their title in the featured-article layout.
• The show/hide password control renders as an eye rather than a small dot.

Forms and search

• 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 search field sits centred in its row on full-size screens instead of hugging the top with empty space beneath it, and the search button sits flush against the field rather than drifting away from it.
• 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 site search now uses Joomla's Smart Search. Diversity had been carrying Joomla 3's search component, removed from Joomla core years ago, which would have caused a fatal error the moment the backward-compatibility plugin was switched off. The search menu item keeps its label and position.

Housekeeping

• Build artefacts and stray files that had been shipping inside the package have been removed, along with a leftover template style left behind by an old migration.
• The Quick Start 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.

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

Maintenance release.

• Fixed: add-to-cart forms were missing their security token. Affected add-to-cart buttons in the product listings and on the product detail page. This release ships the corrected forms.

Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.

• Fixed - Minor bugs

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
• Compatible with Virtuemart pre-release Version 4.2.6
• Please Note: VirtueMart 4.2.4,is not compatible with the Joomla 5,?
  therefore no Joomla 5 Quickstart until VirtueMart Version 4.2.6 is publicly released.?

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

Maintenance release.

• Fixed: paginated pages returned a 500 error on PHP 8. Any page with pagination — on a shop template that includes the category listing — could fail with a server error instead of displaying. The cause was a leftover test in the pagination override that is invalid on PHP 8; the dead code has been removed.

Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.

This is the first release of Elegant from Cybersalt, and it is a substantial one. The template has been rebuilt to run natively on Joomla 6 — without Joomla's legacy behaviour-compatibility plugin — and its front end has been modernized throughout: Bootstrap 5 in place of Bootstrap 2, Font Awesome 6, a working mobile header with a slide-out menu, a current social set, and a long list of layout, form, accessibility and security fixes. Much of the original template's JavaScript had stopped working years ago under modern jQuery and was failing silently; that has been removed or replaced. If you are coming from the original Elegant the site will look familiar, and behave considerably better — particularly on phones.

Added

• A working mobile menu. The phone header now carries a menu button at the top right, at a 44×44 pixel touch target, opening a slide-out drawer holding the full site menu — all 86 links.
• A second row of touch-sized controls beneath the brand bar on a phone: section menu, account, register, search and social, each a 44 pixel target spaced evenly across the bar.
• Sub-menus in the mobile drawer expand in place when you tap the control beside a parent item, instead of navigating away and losing your place.
• Logging in on a phone now opens a dialog over the page, near the top of the screen where you can see it.
• The dialog dims the page behind it and sizes itself to the screen it is on.
• A tap-to-reveal eye control on the login panel's password field, so you can check what you typed. It hides the password again when the form is submitted, so nothing is left visible on a shared screen. Joomla already provides this on its own Login and Registration pages, so the new control is suppressed there and no field ever shows two.
• The search, social and account panels all close the same way — tap outside them, tap the dimmed background, or press Escape.
• A Favicon tab in the template settings, with a crop tool. Choose an image and the template builds the icon set your visitors' devices ask for and links them for you.
• Colour pickers throughout the template settings. All 45 colour options now open a proper picker with a swatch and an eyedropper; they were previously plain text boxes into which you typed a hex code from memory.
• Modern social networks in the template settings: Mastodon, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Vimeo and YouTube alongside Facebook and X — ten in all. The original offered Twitter and Facebook.
• A compatibility shim for jQuery methods removed before jQuery 3.7, so the donor scripts that are still carried forward keep working instead of failing silently.
• A dialog shim for the template's older-style login pop-up, which is genuinely Bootstrap 2 shaped, so it opens, closes and dismisses correctly under Bootstrap 5.
• Cache-busting on the template's modernization stylesheet, its scripts and its icons, so visitors get updated files immediately after an upgrade rather than a stale cached copy.
• Form fields on phones now meet the 16 pixel threshold below which iOS zooms the page when you tap a field and does not zoom back out.
• The quickstart ships with StageIt and MCP for Joomla already installed, so a new site has a staging workflow available from the start.

Changed

• The template is now Joomla 6 native. It no longer relies on the backward-compatibility plugin that Joomla 6 turns off by default, so it runs on a clean, current Joomla.
• Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5. The original shipped Bootstrap 2 markup, which Joomla stopped supporting years ago; grids, rows, columns, forms, tabs, modals, collapses, popovers and the responsive utility classes have all been carried across, in 124 documented corrections.
• Font Awesome 6.5.2, with the version-4 compatibility shims so older icon names continue to work.
• Google Fonts are now requested over a secure connection from the page head instead of being fetched by a script. The original used an insecure request, which on a secure site was blocked outright — the template's typography did not load at all.
• 35 of the template's settings now use Joomla's own on/off switches instead of the original hand-built checkboxes, so the settings screen looks and behaves like the rest of Joomla.
• The phone header now spans the full width of the screen, with the site name at the left and the menu button at the right.
• The row of controls beneath the brand bar shares one white style, rather than a mix of white and blue.
• The mobile search button now matches the search icon that opens it — white with a dark glyph.
• The mobile drawer, search panel and social panel share one visual style, so they read as one system.
• Menu drop-downs are driven by CSS rather than by the jQuery plug-ins the original used, which no longer load.
• The “Remember Me” checkbox and its wording sit on one line in the login panel, instead of the wording wrapping beside the box.
• Version numbering now tracks the Joomla release the template is built for, and reads the same in the template manager, the installed package, and the template's own settings. The original displayed a 2024 date string.
• The template now ships as an installable package, so future updates can be delivered through Joomla's own update machinery.

Fixed

• The modernization stylesheet only loaded on the home page. Its link sat inside the slideshow block, so every other page on the site rendered without it — measured at 257 pixels of sideways scrolling and between two and seven under-sized form fields per page. It now loads everywhere. This single fault was behind most of the sub-page problems listed below.
• A missing icon font produced failed requests on every page load. The stylesheet ships the icon block twice and an earlier pass had retired only the first copy, which is why the failures survived that fix. Both copies are now retired.
• 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, so the menu closed on the way. The whole path is now hoverable and the menu's spacing is unchanged.
• The sidebar menu overlapped the module beneath it on desktop, printing a heading across the menu's last rows.
• Page headings sat on top of the horizontal rule beneath the breadcrumbs.
• “Login Form” sat seven pixels above “Register” and the social icons in the header's utility row.
• On phones the site name and the slogan printed on top of one another.
• On small phones the menu button overlapped the site name.
• On phones a “Main Menu” heading appeared above an empty space, because the menu itself is carried by the drawer.
• On phones the login panel opened part-way down the page, below the fold on smaller screens.
• The login form's Username and Password fields had no visible labels — two blank boxes, for sighted and screen-reader users alike.
• On desktop the login panel's fields measured 11 pixels tall, far shorter than the ones on the account pages. They now match, and fill the width of the panel.
• The login panel had a second border drawn inside it and sat off-centre, flush to the left edge with a gap at the right.
• On phones the login panel painted a full-height white area behind the form instead of letting the dimmed page show through.
• The menu button floated on top of the open login panel, overlapping its close control.
• A stray “Search” label and stray dots appeared beside the mobile search box. Joomla marks such labels as screen-reader-only using a class Bootstrap 5 no longer defines, so they printed on the page instead of staying hidden.
• The slideshow's corner loading indicator turned indefinitely.
• 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.
• The password show/hide icon rendered as a bare dot on light buttons; it now takes the ink colour of the button it sits on.
• Tall single-column articles are no longer clipped to their title on the featured-articles view.
• The social icons in the header no longer collide with the icon set that replaced them. The original positioned its images by pushing text far off to one side, which left the new icons drawn off-screen or doubled up.
• Print and pop-up views requested two stylesheets that are not part of the template, logging two console errors on every such view for every visitor.
• The sample contact's photo pointed at a file that is not in the package.
• Pages no longer scroll sideways on a phone, at any width down to 320 pixels.
• Footer columns stack cleanly on a phone rather than being squeezed side by side.
• Slideshow images scale to their container on tablets instead of overflowing it.
• The close control on dialogs renders its glyph rather than an empty box.
• Sub-menus in the drawer no longer have their last items clipped when the list is taller than the panel.
• Empty header and search bands no longer reserve blank space on phones where nothing is rendered.
• The template's own icons no longer render oversized where an inline image is used in place of a font glyph.

Removed

• The jQuery 1.8.1 loader the original shipped is no longer loaded, along with the superfish and supersubs menu plug-ins that depended on it. Their loaders had already gone, so every call to them threw and took the rest of its script block down with it.
• The selectnav mobile-menu script is no longer loaded. It ran on every page, was called three times, produced no menu at all, and left two hidden copies of the entire 86-link menu in every page.
• Modernizr, Selectivizr and html5shiv are no longer loaded — compatibility shims for Internet Explorer, which no longer exists.
• The Internet Explorer conditional blocks in the main page template.
• An icon font declaration pointing into a Joomla folder that has not existed since Joomla 4, in both of the two places the stylesheet declares it.
• Two dead stylesheet links in the print and pop-up view.
• The script-based web-font loader, which was still live in the print and pop-up view after being replaced elsewhere.
• The original hand-built on/off switch markup in the template settings, replaced by Joomla's own.
• A leftover donor template, vmbasic, which the quickstart installed and nothing used.

Security

• 105 output-escaping call sites were added across the template, so values from the database and from the template's settings are escaped before they reach the page.
• Google Fonts are requested over a secure connection from the page head and from the print and pop-up view; the original used an insecure request, which is a mixed-content failure on any secure site.
• The password reveal control re-hides the password when the form is submitted, so it is not left visible on a shared or unattended screen.
• All of the template's overrides were reviewed against current Joomla layouts, so none of them reintroduce markup Joomla has since fixed.

Housekeeping

• An update-site record carrying unreplaced build tokens in its name has been disabled.

Known limitations

• The slideshow is still the original camera.js, with its jQuery dependency carried forward behind the compatibility shim rather than replaced. It works, and it is on the list to be rebuilt.
• On right-to-left sites the template requests a right-to-left stylesheet that is not in the package, producing one failed request per page. Left-to-right sites are unaffected. This is queued for the next release.
• The editor stylesheet still requests its web font over an insecure connection. This affects the administrator's editing view only, not the public site, and is queued for the next release.
• This build's demo data carries a small residue of our own preview traffic — 38 hits across four articles. It is cosmetic, and is queued for the next quickstart build.

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

• Fixed - Minor bugs

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

• Updated - Updated to Joomla 5
• Fixed - Minor Bugs

• Updated - Updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed: Minor bugs

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

• Fixed - Template updated to Joomla 4.2

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

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Update - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.3.4
• Update - Template updated to be compatible with PHP 8.2
• Fixed - Support added for Advanced Search

• Update - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2