pkg_themer changelog
Notable releases and milestones for Cassiopeia Themer (pkg_themer).
| Version | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2.0 |
Major release. Significant restructure of the admin and a polished front-end layout layer. Brand view split into three. Brand was overcrowded, so it’s now Brand (colour pairs, semantic alerts, WCAG contrast checker, Material / palette import), Surfaces (page surfaces, background image, header / footer gradients), and Identity (typography and favicon). Each page has its own focused live preview. Inline navbar layout — new toggle in Layout → Site header that lays out logo, optional search and menu side-by-side in one horizontal band, with menu items left-aligned next to the logo. Long menus wrap whole items onto new rows. Optional sticky header (with backdrop blur) and a choice of toggler icon (hamburger or ellipsis). On mobile the menu collapses to a full-width drop-down panel anchored under the header, picking up the same gradient. Header / footer gradients with eight bundled presets, an explicit Header / Footer / Both target picker, and a built-in “Best Practice” recipe (Primary → Dark surface, diagonal top-left to bottom-right for headers; Dark surface → Primary, top to bottom for footers). Smarter favicon. One SVG covers every modern browser. The 180×180 PNG iOS uses for “Add to Home Screen” is rendered automatically from your SVG when Imagick is available, on a theme-coloured canvas with proportional padding so the logo doesn’t bleed to the edges. The legacy ICO fallback is dropped — Joomla’s stock Tier matrix rebalance. The trial tier now ships a complete “make my site look good” toolkit: backgrounds, gradients, banners (unlimited), all the visual editors. Standard adds Material / palette import, Ahrefs Web Analytics on its own gate, preset export, and a higher saved-palettes limit — a meaningful step up rather than “trial plus a few cosmetic tweaks”. Premium covers commercial monetisation (GA4, AdSense, Amazon affiliates, Consent Mode v2). Enterprise adds per-Cassiopeia-style theming and white-label. Front-end assets moved. The Bootstrap Icons toggle is now under Layout → Front-end assets rather than Marketing — it’s a presentation choice, not a tracking one. Marketing now reads as a focused tracking / monetisation / consent panel. Self-healing upgrades. The postflight regenerates Subscription panel fix. The Options → Subscription tab now correctly displays the subscriber name and expiry date for paid keys (the cache writer was missing those fields). before_footer banner placement fix. Banners assigned to the “before footer” position are now injected before the opening |
| 1.8 | Activity tables and dashboard polish — admin list filtering, KPI refresh, contextual usage meters following the rest of the Multizone catalogue. Sample banner seeding is idempotent and trial-enabled with a default of two slots. |
| 1.7 | Custom CSS escape hatch on the Layout page for one-off tweaks Themer doesn’t expose as a setting. Full Material 3 colour mapping on the palette importer (26 fields across brand / surfaces / semantic groups; on-text fields for accessibility). Marketing-form fields no longer drop out of the saved settings on second save. Security audit pass and a regex-corruption fix for the shared admin dashboard tile that affected several extensions in the suite. |
| 1.1.2 | Robust dashboard panel rebuild — on install, the “Multizone Extensions” mod_custom is regenerated from observed tile data attributes, repairing any orphan markup left over from earlier regex-corruption bugs across the suite. |
| 1.1.1 | Cassiopeia Themer added to the shared “Multizone Extensions” tile on the admin Home Dashboard, alongside the other Multizone packages. |
| 1.1.0 | Three new front-end injection options on the Marketing tab. Ahrefs Web Analytics — cookieless, GDPR-friendly site analytics, single data-key field, no Consent Mode integration needed (same tier gate as GA4 in this release; later split onto its own gate in 1.10). Bootstrap Icons toggle — pulls the official CDN bundle so any <i class="bi bi-X"> in your content renders (Cassiopeia ships icomoon and Font Awesome but not Bootstrap Icons). Favicon set on Brand — SVG primary (modern browsers), Apple touch icon 180×180 (iOS home screen), ICO fallback (legacy), and a theme-colour for mobile browser chrome and PWA splash. The system plugin emits the four head tags ahead of Cassiopeia’s default favicon link so yours wins. |
| 1.0.0 | Initial release. Visual control panel for Joomla’s Cassiopeia front-end template, generating media/templates/site/cassiopeia/css/user.css from admin-edited theme settings: brand palette, surfaces and semantic colours, typography, page background image, layout (container width, spacing, radius, shadow, link decoration). Site-wide advertising banners with image and composed (gradient + headline + sub-head + CTA + optional inline image) modes, three positions (header, below-header, before-footer), and nine bundled placeholder PNGs seeded as sample banners on first install. Marketing-script integration: GA4, AdSense, Amazon affiliate-link rewriting (per marketplace, ca/com.au/co.uk/etc.), Google Consent Mode v2 default-denied, and Google’s free Consent Management Platform. Setup checklists on the Marketing tab for Google CMP and Amazon Associates with server-side validation, deep-links to AdSense Privacy & messaging and Amazon Associates Central, and an end-to-end live test that fetches the front page server-side and confirms the CMP loader and Consent Mode default reach visitors. Subscription tiers and licensing via pkg_subsmgr; trial keys auto-provisioned on first install. Lock-and-modify pattern on stored marketing IDs prevents accidental overwrite. Idempotent postflight preserves user-edited theme and banner data across uninstall/reinstall and recovers existing themes from user.css when no database row is present. |