Summer season is starting and the Dolce Vita Theme arrived on time. This theme features varied block styles, a frame like style, a special bottom position, four custom widgets and many little helpers and modifiers. At first glance it looks like a theme made for fashion but you can add any personal or business related content, too to create your unique website. This theme also features 6 different and fancy styles to start from.

Dolce Vita also supports the latest Widgetkit 2.7 features. In case you've missed it, please check out this blog post^[1].

Theme Layout

This theme provides a special option to display a subtly animated frame around the layout. You can decide between a frame that overlays your content and one that "hugs" your content by adding padding around it.

It also comes with a special layout position called bottom-offset, perfect to display banners or small teasers. The dimensions and spacings are calculated automatically according to the size of the published content, so that it always stays centered between the bottom and footer sections.

This time we decided to fully style almost everything in the contrast component .uk-contrast. This means all kinds of UIkit components like alerts, buttons, panels, subnavs, text elements and forms are completely styled. We recommend the class for dark and colored images and for the .uk-block-secondary modifier class/secondary background option in the block appearance section.

Navigation

The main navigation of Dolce Vita Theme supports the latest UIkit sticky navigation component features. You are able to choose from 4 different navigation layouts.

With the special overlay option, the logo will work as a hover trigger for the navigation to display. If you start scrolling down, the navigation will also appear.

Further you can enable a full width dropdown menu container, which will be displayed on top of the content.

Parallax Widget

As you may already have noticed, we’ve added CSS blend mode effects to the block appearance options of Dolce Vita and Avanti. Now we've added this to the Widgetkit 2 Parallax widget, too. The images can blend into the 2 different background colors!

Slider Widget

This Slider supports CSS scaling for the before and after items. You can choose from different value options in the widget settings. While scrolling through the single items you will experience a liquid like effect. We also have modified the overlay to allow some more flexibility.

Gallery Widget

The Gallery grid provides a pre-defined sequence, which supports first- and last doubled item widths. This sequence is also fully responsive. We took a look at the overlay settings and added new options for blend modes, opacity, color, alignment and a boxed style.

Grid Widget

For Dolce Vita, we have created a modified Grid widget to customize our output, especially the one we can not control at all, like WordPress/Joomla system content. We have added a truncate option for the title and the content, which makes it easier to control the data output and height.

Additions

Dolce Vita includes some additional features, like modifiers and helpers, to customize your content. It supports 3 font types by default to create a very unique look for your personal website. Please view the Theme^[2] page for a detailed overview of all included features and specials.

You will soon find answers from our support to your Frequently Asked Questions^[3].

• Parallax, Slider, Gallery and Grid widgets
• Additional framed style
• Four navigation layouts
• Bottom-offset position
• Dotnav follower
• Different block appearance settings
• Custom blog layout
• Demo pages built with Widgetkit 2
• Full UIkit components styling
• 6 pre-built style variations
• Easy customizer and LESS integration
• WooCommerce support

Joomla Demo WordPress Demo^[4][5]

Details

Created on Monday, 02 May 2016 01:17

Phoca Download component^[1] and Phoca Download Content plugin^[2] version 3.1.2 have been released.

Download: Phoca Download component and plugins download^[3] site.

Documentation: Phoca Download documentation^[4] site.

Demo: Phoca Download demo^[5] site

Changelog:

• Fixed problem when accessing files
• Filter box moved to top in administration
• Moved styles in plugin to run only if plugin will be found in article

If you find any bug, please report it in Phoca Forum^[6], thank you.

Details

Created on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 14:00

Phoca Cart component^[1] development version 3.0.0 RC2 has been released.

Changelog (in comparison to Beta2):

• Fixed language typo errors
• Added video parameter to frontend view
• Added multiple categories feature - product can be assigned to more than one category
• Changed SEF handling
• Changed database column types (float to decimal)
• JString replaced by StringHelper
• Search filter for categories in administration is applied to whole category tree
• Added Max Levels filter for categories view in administration
• Added new parameters for Product: External link, External link title
• Main, category, product (product view, comparison view), shipping and payment description accepts content plugins
• Implemented hits for categories and products
• Added most viewed, best-selling, best-selling (in time period) product statistics in administration
• Filter box moved to top in administration

Phoca Cart is a Release Candidate version and it is still in development. Upgrade of database does not work between development version. If you upgrade from RC to RC2, then database data needs to be updated. See:

administrator/components/com_phocacart/install/sql/mysql/install.utf8.sql (RC -> RC2 part).

There are SQL instructions for upgrading database of the component.

If you find any bug or you have some feature request idea, please post it to Phoca Forum^[2]. Thank you.

Screenshots: Phoca Cart screenshots^[3] site.

Demo: Phoca Cart demo^[4] site.

Download:

Phoca Cart component download^[5] site.

Phoca Cart download^[6] site.

Modules:

To test Phoca Cart, you need to run Joomla! 3 and template which supports Bootstrap 3, see Phoca Cart or Phoca Gweld:

Phoca - Joomla! 3 Templates^[7]

Inside Phoca Cart installation package you will find Phoca Upgrade plugin - install this plugin and enable it in your Plugin Manager - it is a system plugin which tries to change Bootstrap 2 design (rendered by Joomla! 3) to Bootstrap 3 design.

See this article: How to install sample data in Phoca Cart^[8] to easily test the component.

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