Joomla! 3.0 is out - What do you need to know?
Congratulations to the Joomla! Community. New and shiny Joomla 3.0 is here and is worth checking out.
After months of hard work Joomla! 3.0 has become a new stepping stone to better web development.
Enhanced with brand new responsive administrator combined with Twitter Bootstrap Joomla 3.0 is paradise for templates/extensions developers that do not have to worry about UI anymore.
We are aware that you have many questions and first let us advise you to use Joomla! 3.0 for production websites only if all your 2.5.x templates/extensions are compatible with it. Also note that 3.0 will be obsolete 30 days after Joomla 3.1 is out .
It is up to you to decide to stick with Joomla 2.5 ( which we suggest ) until LTS ( long term release ) Joomla 3.5 comes out. In meantime you might want to visit Joomla 3.0 FAQ and get information from Joomla! Team directly.
About our templates and extensions:
We wanted to keep this a secret until next template release but since Joomla! 3.0 is out we might as well advise you what is coming up. YJSG is about to get a huge makeover (v1.0.14) which will be compatible with Joomla 3.0 and Joomla 2.5. Beside compatibility, we are adding few more features for all Joomla 2.5/3.0 templates like:
- HTML5 by default
- Twitter Bootstrap ( for Joomla 2.5 with our JBootstrap plugin )
- Responsive layout
- Copyright notice change within template admin
- Default Font Squirrel settings
- Improved head code for faster rendering
- Improved mobile devices recognition
All this and more will be available to you before our next Joomla! Template release which
is scheduled for 10-15-2012 10-31-2012.
JBootsrap what is that?
While doing some tests on Joomla 3.0 we could not stop thinking about all those Joomla! 2.5.x users that do not want to rush with upgrade but would love to have Twitter Bootstrap in their templates.
To make it easier for all of them we have published JBootstrap system plugin for Joomla 2.5.x that brings Joomla 3.0 boostrap framework to Joomla 2.5. This way you can play with Bootstrap as long as you want, and upgrade on your own terms.
JBootstrap is free for everyone and is released under GNU/GPL V2 license.
With that said we are off to bring you all the new things you deserve and you go ahead and play with Joomla ! 3.0.
Cheers!
Youjoomla Team
