7 tips to help you convert your Joomla 1.5 template to Joomla 1.6

This morning I read a great post from our friends over at JoomlaPraise, about some of the changes involved in converting a Joomla Template from Joomla 1.5 to 1.6. Now that beta 4 has been released, with beta 5 scheduled to be released on July 12, it’s definitely time for template developers to start the process of converting their existing Joomla templates over to 1.6.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a new free template (Witblits) and last week I decided to start porting it over to Joomla 1.6. Due to the lack of current documentation, there were quite a few things I had to just “figure out” by scouring through articles, comments, bug reports, discussion boards, etc.

I managed to figure out most of the issues I encountered and reading Kyles post this morning inspired me to contribute some of my findings to help make the transition over to Joomla 1.6 easier. (more…)

Tags: howto, joomla 1.6, templates, upgrading

New updated beta builds of Morph & Configurator available

Hi guys and gals, we’ve been hard at work to address all the various issues that have been reported over the past months, to ensure that this build is super stable, before we start on any of the new major features.

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Tags: configurator, framework, Joomla, Morph, templates

Say hello to Mocha – the 1st Joomla template to themelet conversion

We know you love the Mocha template for Joomla – because you told us. This is why you can now download it as a themelet, running on the powerful Morph framework!

Last year we launched a voting site where you could vote for your favorite Joomlajunkie templates to be converted to themelets for the Morph framework.

The highest voted Joomla templates will be re-coded as themelets to run on the Morph framework, which makes the process of Joomla website building much easier for you…and saves you a whole lot of time! (more…)

Tags: customer feedback, Joomla, mocha, Morph, templates, themelets

Update on Morph’s JomSocial integration

We recently had a discussion on the JoomlaJunkie forums, about Creativa’s schedule for integrating with 3rd party extensions. Based on the feedback we received, we decided last week to step up our original plan for the JomSocial integration (since Creativa is a Community style themelet after all).

I’ve been doing extensive digging, probing and studying of JomSocial’s templating system, so as to better understand how far we can push the limits, and I’m really happy to say that I can definitely see an exciting future for Morph and Jomsocial!

Not only is JomSocial a great extension to work with, but thanks to the willingness and cooperation from Azrul’s team I am pretty much certain we’ll be able to give you guys something really special. (more…)

Tags: Integrations, JomSocial, Joomla, Morph, templates

Exploring alternatives to Joomla’s default sidebar module position names

One thing that has bugged us for absolute ages is the default names of module positions used in Joomla templates. Specifically, the “left” and “right” positions, which are generally used in a templates sidebars.

The issue we have with the current naming convention is that it assumes that the sidebar’s position will always be on the left or right of the primary content.
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Tags: discussions, framework, Joomla, Morph, templates