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Essential
This plugin is up for adoption, please see 'Plugins adoption programme'.
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
Yes.
Gareth
In the Course overview Block, the doughnut chart is awesome. Can it be color coded according to course status? The default color is #F89406 for all status. I'd like to have three colors to represent not started, in progress and complete.
The theme comes with NO support. Please see the readme file for details.
Kind regards,
Gareth
Thanks
As stated in the README.txt file the theme comes with NO support. Please read the readme for further details.
Kind regards,
Gareth
I use this theme in Moodle of our school (moodle.aerp.pt) and in moodle 3.4.1, the essential theme work very bad. It's possible to adapt for this new version of Moodle? Thx in advanced.
yours
Essential has not changed functionally in Moodle 3.4 as it does in M3.3 and works well. Please justify with screen shot examples of why it is bad on the 'Themes' forum https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46. Looking at http://moodle.aerp.pt/ this appears to be the Adaptable theme!
Gareth
Just comment in the Moodle forum. Thx.
Nuno
I’m a teacher. I’ve been using your theme (ESSENTIAL e MOODLE 3.3+ (Build: 20170622)) for a few months, but I have just found out that whenever I save a quiz onto my Macbook as a PDF file, the student’s name doesn’t appear in the file, unlike the previous theme I used. In fact, only the central body of the screen is visualized in the file. Could you help me? Is it a matter of choosing the right settings? I an not an IT expert, so I have no idea how to fix this problem, but it is really important to me that the student’s name should appear on the page saved as a file, as all tests have to be placed in the archives in Italian state schools.
We recently upgraded to Moodle 3.3.4 and Essential 3.3.1.2 (Build: 2017040306). Since this upgrade, the icons of gradebook are monochrome. They used to be red for X and green for the checks. Is this something we can adjust from the plugin parameters?
Really? Please post screen shots with examples of how it was and how it is now in the theme's forum (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46) with all the version numbers the forum rules require. And instructions on how to replicate.
Kind regards,
Gareth