Hello Moodlers,
I'm pleased to announce updates to the Essential theme as follows:
M2.8: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=8035
- FIX: Issue #417: M2.8 Mail Settings page needs checking. - FIX: Issue #422: Regression from #179 in the core_renderer.php file. - FIX: Issue #423: Forum floating buttons. - FIX: Issue #425: Copyright date localization. - FIX: Issue #429: Front page content area set to "Show before login only" still paritally displays. - FIX: Issue #432: Adjusted lang string for 'oldnavbardesc'. Thanks to Mathieu Pelletier (https://github.com/mkpelletier) for this. - FIX: Issue #434: Explain if a logo uploaded then no header title will be shown. - FIX: Issue #436: Header background colour setting. - FIX: Issue #441: Messages Screen when on mobile ( - 767px ) - background not filling area (region-main). - FIX: Issue #447: Essential overlapping of Admin Settings. - FIX: Issue #449: Embedded question text alignment. - FIX: Issue #450: Undefined variable fontselect in embedded question preview. - FIX: Issue #451: Hidden categories not aligning correctly. - FIX: Issue #452: Messages Screen when on mobile still not quite correct. - FIX: Issue #454: Social icon hover text is odd with 'URL' postfix. - FIX: Issue #455: IE9 4096 selector limit. - FIX: Apply MDL-46183. - FIX: Apply MDL-45930. - FIX: Apply MDL-44907. - FIX: Improved custom font file detection and serving. - FIX: Serving of slide show images when the parent frontpage is used in a child theme. - FIX: doctype() warning when debugging. - FIX: Misc tweaks I spotted - look at the commit on 22/2/2015 for details. - NEW: Issue #428: Add setting to customise header background image. Thanks to Jerome Charaoui (https://github.com/jcharaoui) for this. - NEW: Issue #433: Add a 'This Course' dropdown menu. Thanks to ActionJONA (https://github.com/ActionJONA) for the ported BCU theme code. - NEW: Added 'Essentials' child theme in 'essentials' sub-folder. To use, read the 'Installation' instructions in 'essentials/README.txt'. The 'essentials' sub-folder is just a place to store and distribute the child theme. It will NOT be available until you install it. - NEW: Code refactoring to make child theme creation easier. - NEW: LESS refactoring to make future transition to Bootstrap v3 easier. - FIX: Incredibly strange regression when changing theme to Essential. - FIX: Issue #458: Header logo pushing social icons off header - smaller sized screens. - FIX: Issue #460: jQuery instead of $.
M2.7: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=8031
- FIX: Issue #422: Regression from #179 in the core_renderer.php file. - FIX: Issue #423: Forum floating buttons. - FIX: Issue #425: Copyright date localization. - FIX: Issue #429: Front page content area set to "Show before login only" still paritally displays. - FIX: Issue #430: Book Module - Print (centred) - layout changed. - FIX: Issue #432: Adjusted lang string for 'oldnavbardesc'. Thanks to Mathieu Pelletier (https://github.com/mkpelletier) for this. - FIX: Issue #434: Explain if a logo uploaded then no header title will be shown. - FIX: Issue #436: Header background colour setting. - FIX: Issue #455: IE9 4096 selector limit. - FIX: Issue #456: Error in maintenance.php. - FIX: Apply MDL-46183. - FIX: Apply MDL-45930. - FIX: Apply MDL-44907. - FIX: Improved custom font file detection and serving. - FIX: Serving of slide show images when the parent frontpage is used in a child theme. - FIX: Misc tweaks I spotted - look at the commit on 23/2/2015 for details. - NEW: Issue #428: Add setting to customise header background image. Thanks to Jerome Charaoui (https://github.com/jcharaoui) for this. - NEW: Issue #433: Add a 'This Course' dropdown menu. Thanks to ActionJONA (https://github.com/ActionJONA) for the ported BCU theme code. - NEW: Added 'Essentials' child theme in 'essentials' sub-folder. To use, read the 'Installation' instructions in 'essentials/README.txt'. The 'essentials' sub-folder is just a place to store and distribute the child theme. It will NOT be available until you install it. - NEW: Code refactoring to make child theme creation easier.
For the first time ever (I believe) both versions come with a 'child' theme template for you to use and adapt - please see the readme for details of how to install and use. Both versions also address the long standing IE9 issue - which I hope has been completely rectified. The M2.8 version is more advanced than the M2.7 version as that will probably be the last release for M2.7 as back porting takes time.
Please note that bug: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/457 in the M2.8 version is outstanding as need to work out what the correct fix is, please see: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=280890. I have noticed that the Clean theme can have 'oddities' too so need to check that.
Happy Moodling, cheers,
Gareth