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RocketTheme Update: Legacy Extensions, Joomla 4, Sale, etc.

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    • Ryan M Pierson
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    RocketTheme Update: Legacy Extensions, Joomla 4, Sale, etc.

    Posted 6 years 6 months ago
    • Hello everyone!

      Labor Day Sale

      We're in the midst of our Labor Day sale which ends tomorrow, so act fast to save 35% on memberships (35% plus your loyalty discount for renewals) and 50% on templates and themes!

      Upcoming Theme

      We're also working on the next theme which is currently in the design phase. We have a concept and are in the process of working with our designer to finalize its layout and other visual elements.

      Legacy Extensions

      We have made the decision to bring the following extensions into Legacy status. They're still available for download , but will no longer be updated as we look to Joomla 3.8 and beyond.

      These extensions include:
      • RokStock
      • RokQuickCart
      • RokMiniEvents
      • RokWeather
      • RokComments

      This decision was made for a number of reasons.

      First, while there are always going to be some users that find use in these extensions, the number of these cases are far too few to warrant the large amount of hours required to maintain them. In some cases, the source API we used to provide functionality to these extensions either closed or have been locked down to the point where they are no longer available.

      Second, we recognize that Joomla is undergoing major changes. This means a lot of things will break and these extensions will, in some cases, require total rewrites to continue to work properly. Sunsetting some of our lesser used extensions now frees up time to focus on our more critical projects.

      Joomla 4.0 and Beyond

      We do not have anything to announce right now regarding our Gantry 4 templates and Joomla 4.0. The question has been asked and we want to provide a good answer for you, but right now there isn't even a release date for Joomla 3.9.

      Here's what we know right now. We know that Gantry 4 and all of our Gantry 4 templates are going to be supported for quite some time. Like our Joomla 2.5 templates in the past, we do our best to maintain these products as long as the platform they're built on is supported. Joomla 3.x will be supported at least until 2020.

      We also know that Joomla 4.0 will break a lot of functionality in templates made for Joomla 3.x (and in our case many which were oiriginally made for Joomla 2.5). That's a lot of backwards compatibility to consider, and Gantry 4 would require almost a total rewrite to adapt to Joomal 4's possible changes.

      That said, nothing is set in stone. Joomla 4 is still quite a long way away. We will update everyone as soon as we have a better idea of what Joomla 4 requires and what our development challenges will be.

      In short, our Gantry 4 templates are still supported and we expect to continue support for the forseeable future. If anything changes in this regard, we'll update you as soon as we make that determination.
    • Last Edit: 6 years 6 months ago by Ryan M Pierson.
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    • Ryan Matthew Pierson / Technical Writer / Buda, TX USA

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