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Essential
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The "Essential" Moodle Theme
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Please note: Essential has reached 'End of life' at Moodle 3.6 - last version for. Please read moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=385903.
Do not attempt to install the theme beyond Moodle 3.6, you will break your site!
With 2.5 now released Julian thought it time to take the opportunity to build a new theme that would push the new theme engine to it's limits a bit. With that in mind he introduced the new "Essential" theme. Now Julian has left us for Canvassian adventures, David and Gareth took over development and maintenance. And now David has left for pastures new, Gareth continues to maintain and make improvements.
The idea of this theme is to make the site look as little like Moodle as possible. In this specific instance, it would be used on sites where Moodle would potentially serve as a company homepage rather than just a course list.
Cool things to know about the theme.
- It attempts to load as many as possible icons from a font.
- Most of what you think are "graphics" are actually the Font Awesome font (fontawesome.io).
- The slider on the front page is completely customisable through theme settings.
- I am really trying to push what Bootstrap (twitter.github.io/bootstrap/) Grids can do. As such the theme is fully responsive.
- The footer is all custom Moodle regions. This means blocks can be added.
- The theme can use Google web fonts (fonts.google.com) to give it that extra bit of shazam!
- Social network icons appear at the top of the page dynamically based on theme settings.
- The entire colour scheme can be modified with theme settings.
Support:
The theme comes with NO support. Please see the 'Support' section in 'README.md' file that comes with the theme. This is because the theme is complex and I regret that I don't have the time / resources to freely assist with questions pertaining to specific enhancements / changes / knowledge improvement.
I will investigate genuine bugs and issue fixes in a timescale set by myself. I will only explain / report my findings at my own discretion. You MUST state the Essential and Moodle versions as I'll only ask for them and that delays time - in software bug fixing there is no 'latest' version as your 'latest' could be different to my 'latest', so please don't use that word or similar like 'current'.
Reporting issues:
Please read the 'Reporting issues' section in 'README.md' file that comes with the theme before posting / contacting me. If there is any missing information then I'll only ask for it which will delay you getting a solution to your problem.
Video Promo:
Properties:
In versions 2.9.1.22, 3.0.1.15, 3.1.1.7 and above.
Versions:
Please note that previously the version for Moodle 2.6 was 2.7.x as well, but since these versions are now separated we also lowered the displayed version number.
Moodle Version |
Essential Version |
Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 2.5.8 | Last release for M2.5 |
| 2.6 | 2.6.11 | Last release for M2.6 |
| 2.7 | 2.7.9.5.3 | Last release for M2.7 |
| 2.8 | 2.8.1.11 | Last release for M2.8 |
| 2.9 | 2.9.1.24 |
Last release for M2.9 |
| 3.0 | 3.0.1.17 | Last release for M3.0 |
| 3.1 | 3.1.1.12 | Last release for M3.1 |
| 3.2 | 3.2.1.5 | Last release for M3.2 |
| 3.3 | 3.3.1.5 | Last release for M3.3 |
| 3.4 | 3.4.1.5 | Last release for M3.4 |
| 3.5 | 3.5.1.5 | Last release for M3.5 |
| 3.6 | 3.6.1.0 | Last release for M3.6 |
| 3.7+ | End of life | Please see: moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=385903 |
Useful links
Screenshots
Contributors
The Essential theme comes with NO SUPPORT. Please see the Readme file for details. Your question is not a theme one but a Moodle one, please learn and read the core documentation.
Gareth
You probably can already as its the standard Bootstrap carousel.
Gareth
I can't as I've already stated that it should already work.
G
The Essential theme comes with NO SUPPORT. Please see the Readme file for details.
Gareth
? Essential has all the functionality of the Clean theme and more. Which 'Tags' page do you mean? I can only find the 'Manage tags' page in the Clean theme in the same way as can be accessed in Essential. Please do explain with screen shots and version numbers on the Themes forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46.
What other of the 'many things' are hidden as I'm not aware of it hiding anything.
Gareth
Can you please advise when your theme will support the new Login Token feature as introduced in 3.5.3 (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Login_token)
We've had to disable this feature to continue using your theme.
Appreciate the update.
Cheers,
Ray
I don't know why you keep asking this (https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/880) as the theme ALREADY SUPPORTS THE LOGIN TOKEN!!!!!
I've already checked the Moodle 3.5 version and have just double checked the versions for Moodle 3.3 and 3.4. Any version less than that is unsupported but I doubt that there would be a problem due to the nature of the issue.
Please post on the issue clear evidence that it is actually the Essential theme with the issue.
Gareth
The theme is outstanding
The Essential theme comes with NO SUPPORT. Please see the Readme file for details.
Gareth
If you want to change what the items in the menu actually do as well, (remove/add items) then this will definitely be code changes, and I think this is mostly going to be in the file core_renderer.php (which lives in either the renderers directory or the output directory depending on the version you're using). I'd not be too keen on diving in there personally, because it's pretty complex. You may be able to add additional navigation options to the top of the page using the "Additional HTML" section - not sure if this will help?