Premium Joomla Templates for Joomla 5 and Joomla 6

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.3.0
• Compatible with Virtuemart Version 4.4.4

• 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 be compatible with Joomla 4.2

Maintenance release.

• Joomla 3 compatibility code removed throughout the template. The template's PHP now uses Joomla's current API everywhere — the template files, the component override and every layout override (cart, checkout, product details, login and the modules). The old code only worked while Joomla's Behaviour – Backward Compatibility plugin was switched on, and will not work at all on Joomla 6. The most serious case was the error page: when it failed, Joomla could not display any error page, so an ordinary “page not found” was served to your visitors as a 500 server error.

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

MubleStore 5.4.8.1 is a corrective maintenance release and we recommend updating. The 5.4.8 package released on 18 August was built from a stale copy of the shared Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet and the previous mobile-header script, so a group of fixes that 5.4.8's own notes described as included did not actually reach the package. This release ships them, and it removes a control on the log-in form that submitted the form when you tapped it. Your settings, colours and menu choices carry over, and there is nothing to reconfigure after updating. The Quick Start still installs Joomla 5.4.8 with VirtueMart 4.8.0.

If you downloaded 5.4.8

• Please update. The 5.4.8 package carried the shared compatibility stylesheet as it stood on 11 August, not as it stood on release day, and it carried the older mobile-header script. On a phone that means the header chrome, the utility icons and several page bands behave as they did before those fixes were made. Everything listed below is the difference between the two builds.

Fixed — the log-in form

• The drop-down arrow beside the "Log in" button submitted the form. It was a leftover Bootstrap 2 split-button: the attribute that used to open its menu is not the one Bootstrap 5 listens for, so nothing was cancelling the click, and the button carried no type, which makes a button inside a form a submit button. Tapping it therefore submitted the log-in form with an empty password, destroyed the pop-up and landed you on a page reading "Warning - Empty password not allowed." The three links it was supposed to reveal — forgotten password, forgotten username and register — were unreachable by any route. The dead control is now hidden and those three links are shown plainly in the pop-up, which is how several other templates in the range already behaved.
• The passkey button on the log-in page no longer paints a large black shape across the form. Joomla's WebAuthn plugin draws its passkey icon as an inline graphic with no size of its own, and this template — like every template of its generation — had no rule to size one, so it expanded to fill the button. Measured on sibling templates at up to 276×276 pixels of solid black over the log-in area. Inline icons of that kind are now capped and take the button's own colour.
• The close button on the log-in pop-up is a proper close control again. It had been rendering as a solid brand-coloured block sitting on top of the "Login Form" title, because the Bootstrap 5 close-button markup relies on a stylesheet these templates do not ship. It now draws a visible × glyph at a usable size.
• The log-in pop-up is vertically centred in the window rather than pinned near the top.
• Account and registration fields fill the width of a phone screen. VirtueMart renders registration and profile as a table, so the fields were sized for its desktop columns — measured at 375 pixels wide, an email field 75 pixels across inside a 145-pixel cell, with the rest of the screen empty beside it. The table now collapses to full-width rows on a phone, and field heights were raised to a comfortable touch size. The VirtueMart cart and checkout controls are deliberately left exactly as they were.

Fixed — the mobile header

• There were two hamburger buttons. This template carried its own hand-written mobile menu from an earlier round, which drew a second hamburger on top of the shared one, added a dead shop-menu button, and pushed "Cart", "Search", "Account" and "Register" text labels into the header icons. Several of the styles it switched on had no styling behind them at all. All of it — 377 lines of stylesheet and script embedded in the template's own page file — has been removed in favour of the shared mobile header.
• The utility icons were invisible. The account, search and social buttons were drawing icons that measured 1.00:1 against their own background — not "hard to read", but nothing painted at all. Measured on this template; now 12.63:1. Icon colour is derived from each button's own background, so plain buttons take dark ink and accented ones take whichever of black or white reads against the accent.
• The hamburger button sits on the same line as the logo instead of being positioned independently and hanging below the branded bar.
• The primary hamburger is the same size as the utility buttons beside it (44 pixels rather than 56), the cart is presented as part of the same button set rather than as an orphan icon in its own row, and the utility row is evenly spaced — the buttons had been using two spacing mechanisms at once, giving uneven gaps and clipping the first and last buttons at the screen edges.
• The home-page product tabs no longer wrap onto two lines. Measured at 375 pixels wide: three tabs needing 394 pixels in a 320-pixel pane, so "GREAT SALE" dropped to a second row on its own. The tabs now share the row and wrap their own labels instead.
• Empty header bands no longer paint as blocks of colour with nothing in them, where the template reserved phone-layout space for elements the mobile header now presents as icons.
• Breadcrumbs flow as a single line on a phone instead of taking one line per crumb.

Fixed — VirtueMart product listings

• Stray bullet points beside product tiles are gone. Product tiles are list items, and the styling that used to make them behave as plain blocks was not being reproduced, so each tile painted a disc marker beside its thumbnail.
• Tabbed product modules show one tab at a time again. A product list that doubles as a tab container was being laid out as a flexible row, which made every hidden tab panel visible at once as a long single column of products.
• Product rows take their height from the tiles inside them. Without the older framework's clearing behaviour, a row whose contents all float took no height at all — measured on a sibling store template as a 15-pixel sliver where 301 pixels were needed, with whatever followed riding up into the product tiles.
• A tabbed module's heading row no longer overlaps the first row of products beneath it, which had been squeezing four tiles per row down to three.

Fixed — page layout

• Article details no longer run off the side of the page. The "Written by / Category / Published / Last Updated / Hits" block was set to a single non-wrapping line, so on a phone its items simply ran past the edge of the screen — measured on a sibling template as 73 pixels outside the viewport, and the sole cause of that page's sideways scrolling. It now wraps.
• The page no longer scrolls sideways at tablet widths: the desktop drop-down panels were parked out of sight vertically but never horizontally, so panels nobody could see were still widening the document.
• The breadcrumb bar no longer overflows on interior and account pages: a layout row was resolving to zero width, leaving the breadcrumb links with nothing to wrap inside.
• The account, search and cart controls at the top right now share one size, one icon size and one midline instead of five independent ones, and the FAQ / Help / Support links beside them are vertically centred in their bar.
• Header search fields keep their full height again. Bootstrap 5 measures boxes differently from Bootstrap 2, so fields sized in the older style lost their padding out of their declared height and collapsed, taking the row and its submit button with them. A search field with a fixed width no longer overhangs its column between 768 and 1199 pixels.
• The social flyout tab pinned to the right edge of the page no longer leaves a dead "Follow Us" bar across the foot of the page on phones. It opens on hover, which a touch screen cannot do, and its links are already available from the social icon in the header.
• Slideshow arrows remain visible on touch screens instead of only appearing on hover, and are drawn at a comfortable tap size. Where the slideshow runs as a fade, its slides no longer sit in a band of empty space caused by a class-name collision between the new slideshow engine and the caption styling inherited from the old one.

Changed

• The Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet is now the current shared build (internally 2026-08-19.74, up from 2026-08-11.38). Twenty-nine further fix groups have been added to it since the previous package.
• This template now uses the shared mobile-header script. It previously carried its own copy, which meant it did not inherit fixes made for the rest of the range.

Removed

• Three stray archive files that had been shipping inside the template package are gone — js.zip (143 KB), css/bootstrap.zip (49 KB) and html/mod_menu.zip. They were never used at runtime and were pure download weight.

MubleStore 5.4.8 is a maintenance release and we recommend updating. It carries a VirtueMart security update, renumbers the template to match the Joomla version it is built and tested against, refreshes the Quick Start onto the current Joomla release, and releases a group of fixes that have been ready since July. Your settings, colours and menu choices carry over.

Security

• The Quick Start now installs VirtueMart 4.8.0, a security release from the VirtueMart team. Note that the template package does not contain VirtueMart itself — if you already run MubleStore on a live site, install this template package and update VirtueMart through Joomla's Extensions Manager.

Version numbering

• The template version now matches the Joomla version it ships against. MubleStore 5.4.8 is the build for Joomla 5.4.8. The previous release of this template was numbered 5.4.1.2. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 5.4.8 as newer than 5.4.1.2, so the update comparison in your Extensions Manager behaves normally. MubleStore stays on the Joomla 5 line; it is our VirtueMart template and is not part of the Joomla 6 range.

Quick Start

• The Quick Start package now installs Joomla 5.4.8 (previously 5.4.7) together with VirtueMart 4.8.0, so a new shop starts on current versions of both instead of needing two updates on day one.
• 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.

Fixed

• Uncaught JavaScript errors on every page load. The template was still calling several jQuery plug-ins it no longer bundles. A call to a missing plug-in stops every remaining script in the same block from running, so this could break features that look unrelated to the menu the calls came from.
• The log-in dialog could open completely invisible — the page dimmed and keyboard focus moved into the dialog, but there was nothing to see. Bootstrap 2 and Bootstrap 5 mark an open dialog differently; the compatibility stylesheet now handles both.
• The mobile menu drawer could hang off the side of the screen, and pages could be dragged sideways on a phone. The menu drawer, search and cart panels are now sized to the visible screen rather than to the overflow.
• A PHP error in the Slides module style produced a blank page for any module assigned that style. This was fixed in July as 5.4.1.3, but 5.4.1.3 was never released, so this is the first package to carry it.
• Help text on the template's own Options screen was squeezed into a narrow vertical ribbon hundreds of pixels tall — most visibly the Favicon banner — because Joomla renders that kind of help inside the form's fixed-width label column. It now runs across the full width of the screen.

Changed

• The Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet is now the current shared build. MubleStore had been left on an early, template-specific version of this file. It now carries the same canonical build as the rest of our range, adding a large number of layout guards covering drop-down and mobile menus, phone header layout and spacing, slideshow controls on touch screens, social icons, tooltips and popovers, non-responsive page bands, and full-height column panels.
• A dedicated mobile header gives phones a hamburger drawer and a single centred utility row, in place of layout carried over from the desktop design.
• Tab and field labels on the Options screen were shortened and made consistent.

Removed

• Two dead VirtueMart 3 Klarna payment plug-ins. VirtueMart 4 dropped them entirely and their update feed can never be satisfied, so they sat in the Quick Start as permanently-outdated extensions. They were disabled and unused, with no payment methods and no orders attached. This is a removal, not an update — if you take Klarna payments you will need a currently-maintained VirtueMart 4 plug-in.
• An internal security-sweep report that was being shipped inside the template. security-sweep-3f-report.md was one of our own working files and should never have been in a customer download.
• A stray copy of the template's own zip inside the Quick Start. A 1.1 MB templates/mublestore.zip left over from an earlier build was included in every Quick Start. It was a stale July copy of the template, so anyone who found and installed it would have got an old version.

Known and deliberately not fixed

• MubleStore logs one console error from components/com_virtuemart/assets/js/jquery.ui.autocomplete.html.js. That is VirtueMart's own file, loaded without the jQuery UI component it extends. It is not template code, and any patch we made would be overwritten by the next VirtueMart update, so we have left it alone. It does not affect the shop's behaviour — but if it causes you a problem, contact us and we will help.

With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to the maintenance pass across our templates that several of these fixes came out of.

Bugfix release. Fixes a legacy Joomla 3 form-validation call (behavior.formvalidation, removed in Joomla 5) in the VirtueMart login template override, which could cause a 500 - behavior::formvalidation not found error on pages where the login block is shown to guests — for example the cart, depending on your VirtueMart settings. The override now uses the Joomla 5-native behavior.formvalidator.

Found during the follow-up on the 2026-07-15 report — thank you again, Zoltán!

Also fixed: legacy behavior.modal calls (helper removed in Joomla 4/5 — fatal behavior::modal not found) in the VirtueMart login override and the mod_virtuemart_product slick-slider override. Bootstrap 5's data-bs-toggle="modal" markup handles modal opening natively.

Modernization to Joomla 5-native. Full refresh targeting Joomla 5.4.6 + VirtueMart 4.6.8. Every fix from the modernization pipeline is enumerated below so nothing gets lost when the template is next touched. Complete change log ships in CHANGELOG.md at the template root.

Joomla + VirtueMart stack

• Joomla core lifted to 5.4.6 native (no Joomla 3 residuals in the shipped code path).
• VirtueMart 4.6.8 build 11258 (May 2026 upstream) — matches every other modernized ET template.
• StageIt + MCP for Joomla pre-installed in the quickstart bundle.
• Post-install messages hidden by default so a fresh install ships clean.

Bootstrap 2 → Bootstrap 5 (bridge CSS)

• New css/bs2-bs5-bridge.css translates every BS2 .row-fluid / .span1..12 / .offset* / .pull-left|right / .hidden-phone / .visible-phone / .btn-inverse / .btn-default class to its BS5 equivalent — 33 BS2→BS5 class conversions in index.php now render through this bridge without breaking donor markup.
• Standalone .spanN widths converted from BS2's fixed 940-grid pixels to percentages so they scale correctly inside a 1170–1200px BS5 container.
• List-style reset added for ul.row-fluid, .menu-nav, #social-links, etc. (BS5 dropped the implicit list reset BS2 provided).
• Testimonials + manufacturers / Owl slider containers preserved — those integrations depend on the BS2 grid math.

PHP 8 + security

• 175 XSS-hardening wraps applied via new phEsc(), phHexColor(), phCssDim() helpers around every $this->params->get(…) echo.
• mod_login override — added $type variable fallback (Phase 3e), fixes the Undefined variable $type warning on Joomla 5 login modules.
• Deprecated jQuery.browser IE-detect shim block removed.
• Font Awesome 6.5.2 loaded via CDN with the official V4 back-compat shim so legacy <i class="fa fa-twitter"> markup still resolves to brand icons.

Legacy front-end code paths cleaned up

• IE conditional blocks + selectivizr / modernizr / html5shiv polyfill loaders removed.
• Legacy addStyleSheet calls stripped (Phase 5d).
• jQuery plugin loaders removed where the plugin is no longer used — Superfish, Supersubs, jQuery.backstretch.
• Legacy class="switch" checkbox markup swept out of templateDetails.xml in favour of Joomla-native switcher fields.

Social icon set

• Modern 13-network set brought to parity: Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord all added.
• Dead networks retired: Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Blogger, MySpace.

Header layout

• Bridge-CSS restoration of the original 2-row header: main menu on the top row (position-1 module in .responsive-menu), mega-menu with sub-categories below the logo.
• Fixed-header stack lifted to z-index 100000+ so component overlays (VirtueMart lightbox, category-tile hover, hot-offer decoration) can't accidentally out-layer the mega-menu dropdown.
• Dropdown overflow-escape — replaces .global-container { overflow: hidden } with overflow: visible on the escape path, and moves horizontal-scroll prevention to body where it doesn't clip mega-menu descendants.
• #st-navigation overflow changed to visible — was hiding dropdown items 3+ at the header height boundary.
• Logo container auto-expands to fit the customer's uploaded logo image (won't clip at desktop-scale topheight).
• Companion inline JS syncs .body-innerwrapper padding-top to actual rendered header height so a tall logo image doesn't overlap content beneath.
• Site-Name Position X / Y sliders now work as visual offsets (were being ignored on image-logo mode).
• Logo Width now drives the space between the logo and menu — set the value low and the menu tucks up against the logo.

Mega-menu

• CS-PATCH: nested-menu — MubleStore-family mega-menus ship with module-based dropdowns; this patch also renders Joomla-native parent_id child menu items as <ul> dropdowns through the same foreach loop, so customers who prefer standard nested menu structure get dropdowns automatically.
• Hover-gap eliminated — dropdowns now sit flush against the parent menu-item's bottom edge (no 70-pixel dead zone that used to time out the sfHover state before the user could reach the dropdown).
• Menu-item hard-hide selectors extended so first-hover reveal is instant.

Mobile hamburger + accordion menu (Phase 5m Expression pattern)

• Hamburger button injected into #top-handler, toggles body.mobile-menu-open class.
• Full-width off-canvas drawer with dim overlay behind so the site behind stays visible-but-shaded.
• Circular chip indicator with Font Awesome fa-plus / fa-minus icons on parent items (replaces plain text glyphs); chip darkens on the expanded state.
• Progressive-disclosure accordion — tap parent to expand children; single-branch-open (opening one branch closes any open sibling).
• Tap-to-toggle — the same parent tap opens then closes on the second tap (parent anchors don't navigate on mobile; leaf children carry the URLs).
• Mobile drawer background driven by the template style's Color 4 (theme-shaded tint) with #212529 slate fallback — reads as an intentional shaded version of the customer's chosen theme rather than a fixed slate.
• Mobile drawer decoupled from the desktop mega-menu — the hamburger renders the position-1 main menu rather than duplicating the desktop mega-menu's utility items.
• Long menu labels wrap cleanly on mobile without descender clipping.
• Mobile content gets 15px left/right padding matching the hamburger's edge offset.
• mubleStore title vertically centered next to the hamburger on mobile (no longer drops below the header overlapping the slideshow).

Legacy off-canvas machinery

• Original .open-off-canvas hamburger + #offcanvas panel + .menucanvas output hidden on mobile — Phase 5m is now the canonical mobile hamburger.
• Classic .responsive-menu (position-1 module output) stays visible on desktop (that's the second utility menu row) but hidden on mobile when the mobile drawer is showing.

Bootstrap 5 modal migration

• data-toggle="modal" → data-bs-toggle="modal" on all login / register triggers.
• Login modal renders as a proper centered popup (was rendering full-width inline pre-refresh).

Admin labels + template style tabs

• Every fieldset tab renamed to drop the redundant "Settings" suffix: Site Name and Slogan, Theme, Fonts, EU Cookie Law Window, Drop Down Menus, Template Header and Footer Custom Code, Colors, Built-in Slideshow, Slick Products Slider, OWL Products Slider, Testimonials Slider, Manufacturers Slider, Product Images, Side Pop Up Box.
• Section headers inside the Theme tab cleaned up: Basic, Top Pop Up Panel, Cart Module, Header Area, Slideshow Area, Advanced Fonts.
• Field labels renamed: Top Handler Height → Header Height; Top Handler Width → Logo Width.
• Template Version display in the Description tab now matches the actual shipped version — no more stale 28.06.2024 5.1.1/4.2.12 string.

Not in this cycle (deferred to a later release)

• Owl Carousel 1.x + Slick + camera.js → Swiper 11 migration. Swiper 11 CDN is preloaded so a future release can migrate the testimonials, VirtueMart product carousels, manufacturer logo strip, and K2 slider incrementally without adding a new loader.
• Dedicated "Changelog" fieldset tab in the template style editor.
• Mobile menu hierarchy styling — the chip indicator + tinted drawer background are settled; per-level styling (left accent bar, section-heading feel on parent items) is planned for the next cycle.

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.3.0
• Update - Template updated to Virtuemart 4.4.4
• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
• Compatible with Virtuemart pre-release Version 4.2.12
• Minor Bugs fixed

• 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 be compatible with Joomla 4.2

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

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

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.0
• Fixed: Minor bugs

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.3.0
• Fixed: Minor bugs

• Update - Template 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 be compatible with Joomla 4.2

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

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

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2

• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
• Compatible with Virtuemart pre-release Version 4.2.12
• Minor Bugs fixed

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

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

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with 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.

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

Progressive 6.1.3.1 is a corrective maintenance release and we recommend updating. The 6.1.3 package released on 18 August was built from a stale copy of the shared Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet and the previous mobile-header script, so a group of fixes that 6.1.3's own notes described as included did not actually reach the package. This release ships them. Your settings, colours and menu choices carry over, and there is nothing to reconfigure after updating.

If you downloaded 6.1.3

• Please update. The 6.1.3 package carried the shared compatibility stylesheet as it stood on 11 August, not as it stood on release day, and it carried the older mobile-header script. On a phone that means the header chrome, the utility icons and several page bands behave as they did before those fixes were made. Everything listed below is the difference between the two builds.

Fixed — log-in and account pages

• The passkey button on the log-in page no longer paints a large black shape across the form. Joomla 6's WebAuthn plugin draws its passkey icon as an inline graphic with no size of its own, and this template — like every template of its generation — had no rule to size one, so it expanded to fill the button. Measured on sibling templates at up to 276×276 pixels of solid black over the log-in area. Inline icons of that kind are now capped and take the button's own colour.
• The close button on the log-in pop-up is a proper close control again. It had been rendering as a solid brand-coloured block sitting on top of the "Login Form" title, because the Bootstrap 5 close-button markup relies on a stylesheet these templates do not ship. It now draws a visible × glyph.
• The two dismiss controls in the log-in pop-up are now real buttons with an accessible label rather than links, so keyboard and screen-reader users can reach them.
• Account and registration fields fill the width of a phone screen. They had been sized for a desktop two-column layout that no longer applies once the form stacks, leaving several fields about a third of the screen wide with empty space beside them. Field heights were also raised to a comfortable touch size.

Fixed — the mobile header

• The utility icons were invisible. The account, search and social buttons were drawing white icons on a white background — a contrast ratio of 1.00:1, measured on this template, which is not "hard to read" but literally nothing painted. The buttons were there and the right size; they showed no icon at all. Icon colour is now derived from each button's own background, so plain buttons take dark ink and accented ones take whichever of black or white reads against the accent.
• The "+" expander in the slide-out menu was nearly unreadable — measured at 1.88:1 on this template's green accent, because the template's own button styling was repainting both the chip and its glyph. It now carries its own colour.
• A large empty white band beneath the breadcrumb bar is gone. Measured at 100 pixels of nothing on a 375-pixel-wide screen. The template reserves space under the breadcrumb row for a search box that the mobile header now presents as an icon instead, so the reservation was being paid for nothing.
• The hamburger button sits on the same line as the logo. It was positioned independently of the logo row and could hang below the branded bar rather than in it.
• The primary hamburger is the same size as the utility buttons beside it (44 pixels rather than 56), and the utility row is evenly spaced — the buttons had been using two spacing mechanisms at once, giving uneven gaps and clipping the first and last buttons at the screen edges.
• The social flyout tab pinned to the right edge of the page no longer leaves a dead "Follow Us" bar across the foot of the page on phones. It opens on hover, which a touch screen cannot do, and its links are already available from the social icon in the header.
• Breadcrumbs flow as a single line on a phone instead of taking one line per crumb.

Fixed — page layout

• Page content no longer overlaps the breadcrumb on pages with no top modules. On the Registration Form route at desktop width the whole component output was being pulled 76 pixels upwards, printing the "You are here:" trail on top of the "User Registration" heading — measured as an 81×15-pixel text-on-text overlap. The rule responsible had been written for a phone measurement but carried no width limit, so it fired at every width where it had nothing to counterbalance. It has been removed and the phone case it was written for is now handled correctly at source.
• Article details no longer run off the side of the page. The "Written by / Category / Published / Last Updated / Hits" block was set to a single non-wrapping line, so on a phone its items simply ran past the edge of the screen — measured on a sibling template as 73 pixels outside the viewport, and the sole cause of that page's sideways scrolling. It now wraps.
• The page no longer scrolls sideways at tablet widths. The desktop drop-down panels were parked out of sight vertically but not horizontally, so panels nobody could see were still widening the document. The page was horizontally scrollable while nothing visible overflowed, which is why it survived every visual review.
• The breadcrumb bar no longer overflows on interior and account pages: a layout row was resolving to zero width, leaving the breadcrumb links with nothing to wrap inside.
• The top-right links bar (FAQ / Help / Support) is vertically centred in its own bar — measured 7.2 pixels high on this template. The account, search and cart controls beside it now share one size, one icon size and one midline instead of five independent ones.
• Header search fields keep their full height again. Bootstrap 5 measures boxes differently from Bootstrap 2, so fields sized in the older style lost their padding out of their declared height and collapsed, taking the row and its submit button with them.
• Slideshow arrows remain visible on touch screens instead of only appearing on hover, and are drawn at a comfortable tap size.
• Where the slideshow runs as a fade, its slides no longer sit in a band of empty space caused by a class-name collision between the new slideshow engine and the caption styling inherited from the old one.

Changed

• The Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet is now the current shared build (internally 2026-08-19.74, up from 2026-08-11.38). Thirty further fix groups have been added to it since the previous package.
• The compatibility stylesheet is now loaded after every other template stylesheet. It had been emitted earlier in the page, so any of its fixes that were not forced simply lost to the template's own styling. This is why a number of fixes that were present in the file were not visible on the page.
• This template now uses the shared mobile-header script. It previously carried its own copy, which meant it did not inherit fixes made for the rest of the range.
• Over two thousand lines of template-specific stylesheet were removed (2,076 lines net; this template's own additions to the shared stylesheet fall from 2,463 lines to 387). They had accumulated across roughly seven stacked generations of mobile-header styling, each layered over the last. Every one of them is now provided by the shared stylesheet; nothing was lost, and the file is substantially easier to support.

Removed

• A stray archive file (blog_item.zip) that had been shipping inside the template package is no longer included.

Known behaviour, unchanged

• The site slogan sits beside the logo rather than under it at the widest screen sizes. This is the template's shipped default positioning, not a fault introduced here — it was confirmed by disabling the compatibility stylesheet entirely, with the slogan still beside the logo. It can be changed from the template's own H2 position settings.

Progressive 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, corrects two defects in the Quick Start's own database, 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. Progressive 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.12. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.12, 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 — two corrections

• 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.
• Fixed: a fresh Quick Start install reported the wrong template version. The version recorded in the Quick Start's database had not been kept in step with the template files. A site built from the previous Quick Start showed Progressive as 6.1.2.7 in Extensions Manager even though the files it installed were 6.1.2.12. The template itself was always correct; only the recorded version was stale, and it could make Joomla's update check behave oddly. Both are now written from a single source and verified inside the finished package before it ships.
• Fixed: two dead template styles were shipped in the Quick Start. A fresh install left entries named "nano" and "nexxy" sitting in System → Site Template Styles. Neither template is part of this package, so both pointed at nothing. They were left over from the demo site the Quick Start is built from. Both have been removed at source; no menu item referenced either of them, so nothing that was working stops working.
• 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 nineteen further layout guards since 6.1.2.12. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Progressive 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 and parked sub-menu behaviour and flow; mobile header layout, ordering, logo placement and spacing; the mobile search and cart controls; slideshow controls on touch screens, which are revealed on hover and so were unreachable by tap; slide images that did not cover their frame; 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; fixed-top header offsets; grid children that lost their block display; and standalone column grids.
• No guard was removed. The compatibility stylesheet moved from canonical revision 2026-08-11.11 to 2026-08-11.38.

What is not in this release

• No template file other than the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet changed between 6.1.2.12 and 6.1.3. Everything shipped in the 6.1.2.x line — the Joomla 6 native rebuild, the removal of the orphaned jQuery plug-in calls that were throwing an uncaught JavaScript error on every page load, the cs-jq-compat.js shim that keeps the slideshow and parallax bands working under Joomla 6's jQuery 3.7, the log-in dialog that now opens fully visible, the desktop search row spacing correction, the mobile overflow and drawer fixes, and the relocated legacy Bluestork category images — is carried forward unchanged in this package.
• Known limitation, unchanged and disclosed: Progressive's slideshow still uses camera.js rather than Swiper, so 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 replacing 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.

• The mobile menu button sits beside the site name again. It had dropped onto a line of its own underneath the name, and sat against the left edge instead of the right.
• The site slogan is visible again on phones. It was being placed past the right-hand edge of the screen, so on a narrow display it looked as though it had gone missing altogether.
• Removed a large empty gap under the breadcrumb trail on phones. Roughly a screenful of blank space sat between the breadcrumbs and the first block of content below them.
• Social icons are centred in their circles. In the footer each icon sat a few pixels below the middle of the circle behind it.
• Headings and text no longer run into the edges of a phone screen. Module titles and article text now keep a small margin on the left and right, matching the body copy around them.

Quickstart maintenance release. This affects new quickstart installations only — if you already have Progressive running, there is nothing you need to do.

• The quickstart installer no longer records a stale template version. A fresh install showed the previous version against Progressive in Extensions → Manage until the template was reinstalled.
• Removed two leftover template styles ("nano" and "nexxy") that referred to templates not included in the package. After a quickstart install these appeared in System → Site Templates Styles pointing at templates that were not there.

• 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.

• 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.

• Drop-down menus no longer close before you can reach them. On desktop, 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 down. The whole path is now hoverable. The menu's spacing and appearance are unchanged.

• The site name and slogan are now real text instead of an image. They previously came from a small fixed-size picture, so they could not be resized, re-wrapped or read comfortably on a phone. Both are now ordinary text you can edit in the template settings, and they scale with the screen.
• On a phone, the name and slogan sit together in a coloured bar. The bar uses the template's own accent colour, stops clear of the menu button instead of running underneath it, and the two lines are centred against each other.
• On desktop, the slogan now appears on its own line beneath the site name rather than beside it.
• The duplicate account links no longer appear above the logo on a phone. My Account and Register were shown twice; the icon row already provides both.
• The slideshow's navigation dots are centred in their circles again.
• Removed the empty space above and below the header on a phone, so the page content starts higher.
• Added a little breathing room above the small utility menu at the top of the desktop layout, and aligned both of its menus to the same edge.
• Corrected the bundled changelog file, which was missing the two most recent releases.

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.
• Removed - three unused Joomla 2.5-era templates (atomic, beez_20, beez5) that were being shipped inside the quickstart - 311 files in total.

Major release ? Progressive is now genuinely Joomla 6 native. This is the largest update Progressive 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, and the phone experience has been rebuilt from the ground up. The quickstart ships Joomla 6.1.2. Everything below ships in both the standalone package and the quickstart.

With thanks 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 Progressive's original design, including its distinctive near-gutterless gallery grid. Progressive no longer depends on Joomla's backwards-compatibility plugin.
• A proper phone header. Previously the phone view showed the donor's raw layout ? two rows of text links stacked above the logo, with the menu button stranded on its own row and no icon cluster. It is now a single tidy icon row: menu, account, register and search.
• Search on phones ? a magnifier in the icon row opens a full-width search panel with a large field that focuses automatically.
• A Submit button on the search box, on both desktop and phones. Previously the only way to run a search was to press Enter ? awkward on a phone, and not obvious on a laptop trackpad.
• An accordion mobile menu built from the real nested menu, replacing the flattened one-level list the donor produced.
• Tappable slideshow arrows on phones. The previous arrows only appeared on mouse hover, which never happens on a touch screen, so there was no indication the slideshow could be advanced at all.
• Font Awesome 6.5.2 with version-4 shims, replacing the Font Awesome 4 delivery network that has shut down.
• Modern social networks with X rebranding, rendered as icon-only circles matching the original footer design.
• Package-based distribution ? registers with Joomla's Update Manager so future releases appear under System ? Update ? Extensions.

Changed

• The site name and tagline now sit fully within the blue header band, with the green bar as a clean strip beneath. Previously the tagline straddled the boundary, half on blue and half on green.
• The main menu button is now white rather than grey ? grey on blue was very hard to read ? inset from the edge, vertically centred, with wider bars.
• All template settings switches converted to Joomla's native switch control.
• Google Fonts now load through a direct stylesheet link, replacing the old JavaScript loader.
• Page and article titles on phones are inset from the screen edge, while images remain full width.
• The secondary menu bar opens at a comfortable height with its links vertically centred.
• Promotional modules no longer appear on the registration page, where they pushed the form far down the screen.
• Footer copyright year rolled forward to the current year.
• Quickstart ships a clean install ? view counts zeroed, setup-nag messages cleared, and leftover unused templates removed.

Fixed

• The Register button was white text on a near-white background and effectively unreadable. A legacy button style was painting a pale gradient over the button's own green. The same fault affected both "Show Password" buttons.
• Login and registration forms failed on Joomla 5 and later with a behavior::formvalidation not found error, from a Joomla 3 validation call removed from Joomla core. (Reported by Zolt?n ? fixed across the whole template range.)
• The footer bottom bar had been rendering full-width since the Bootstrap 5 rebuild, pushing the social block onto its own row ? caused by a grid rule that never matched Progressive's custom markup.
• A JavaScript error on every page load, from a jQuery Mobile plugin incompatible with current jQuery.
• The logo column collapsed and pushed the menu beneath the logo.
• The slideshow arrows were oversized and their chevrons off-centre in both directions.
• The search button sat flush against the search box frame rather than inset.
• The registration form ran to both screen edges on phones.
• An empty white band above the page content on interior pages.
• Login form fields now declare autocomplete, so browsers and password managers fill them correctly.
• The component view was still a Joomla 2.5-era page ? old doctype, jQuery 1.8.1, and a stylesheet that no longer existed.

Removed

• Internet Explorer conditional blocks and related workarounds.
• Bootstrap 2 framework files.
• Retired JavaScript libraries, including backstretch and jQuery Mobile.

Security

• Output escaping applied throughout the template.
• 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.
• The favicon suite (Skill 36) has not yet been applied.

• 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 5.2.5
• Security Fix - XSS Vunlnerabilities in Menu Override

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

• Update - Template updated to Joomla 5

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

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with 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.

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

Oxygen 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. Oxygen 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 Oxygen 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 and parked sub-menu behaviour and flow; mobile header layout, ordering, logo placement and spacing; the mobile search and cart controls; slideshow controls on touch screens, which are revealed on hover and so were unreachable by tap; slide images that did not cover their frame; 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; fixed-top header offsets; grid children that lost their block display; standalone column grids; and full-height column panels that clipped the content they were meant to wrap.
• No guard was removed. The compatibility stylesheet moved from canonical revision 2026-08-11.6 to 2026-08-11.38.

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 orphaned jQuery plug-in calls that were throwing an uncaught JavaScript error on every page load, the cs-jq-compat.js shim that keeps the slideshow and parallax bands working under Joomla 6's jQuery 3.7, the log-in dialog that now opens fully visible instead of dimming the page and showing nothing, the centred-pupil show/hide-password eye, the mobile overflow and drawer fixes, and the relocated legacy Bluestork category images — is carried forward unchanged in this package.
• Known limitation, unchanged and disclosed: Oxygen's slideshow still uses camera.js rather than Swiper, so 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 replacing 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.

• The changelog is now included in the download. Previous releases shipped without one, so the release history was only available on our website. The full history is now in the package as both a plain-text and a formatted file.

• Drop-down menus no longer close before you can reach them. On desktop, 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 down. The whole path is now hoverable. The menu's spacing and appearance are unchanged.

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.

• Fixed two JavaScript errors that occurred on every page, including a legacy mobile-touch library that cannot load under the version of jQuery Joomla 6 ships.
• 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

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

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

• Updated - Updated to Joomla 5

• Fixed - Bug with the Responsive Menu

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2