Store owners. The account page no longer shows an error when a store owner or vendor is logged in.

Cart. The cart icon always shows how many items are in the cart, not only on mouse-over.

Phones. On product pages the quantity buttons no longer cover the "Ask a question" button.

Phones. The show-password button stays on the same line as the password field.

Articles. The Previous and Next buttons sit at opposite ends of the article.

Quickstart. Weblinks updated to 5.2.0.

Joomla 5.4.10. The Quickstart now installs Joomla 5.4.10 (Joomla 5.4.10 release notes), and the template version is now 5.4.10 to match.

Error pages. "Page not found" and "access denied" pages now show inside the template, with its header, menus and footer, and fit a phone screen.

Phones. Pages no longer scroll sideways.

Security. The template's main file can no longer be run on its own outside Joomla.

Category pages. The category description lines up with the products (no extra space at the sides).

Quickstart. A fresh install no longer lists stale update notices.

Login window. The My Account login window no longer opens over every page as it loads. It opens only when you click the account icon.

Breadcrumbs. Fixed a template bug that gave the breadcrumb trail the wrong CSS class. The trail showed as a bulleted list; it now reads as one line again.

JavaScript error fixed. Every page logged a script error because the template's copy of jQuery UI did not include the autocomplete widget that VirtueMart uses. The template now ships the full jQuery UI 1.13.2 that VirtueMart expects.

Parallax backgrounds. Added a small jQuery compatibility file, so the parallax script runs without an error on the jQuery in Joomla 5.

Quickstart. The quickstart includes MCP For J 2.8.3.

Quickstart install fix. The quickstart now installs completely on MySQL databases. Before, the Joomla installer stopped part-way through on MySQL hosts; MariaDB hosts were not affected. Thanks to Iryna for reporting this.

Joomla 5.4.9. Updated for Joomla 5.4.9, a security and bug-fix release. The quickstart now installs Joomla 5.4.9.

Security update. Every template setting that is written into your pages is now escaped for the place it lands in (HTML, attributes, CSS and JavaScript), including the site name and slogan in image alt text, and module, menu and tab titles wherever the template prints them (module headings, title attributes and the mega menu). A setting or title containing a quote or markup can no longer break out of its place in the page. The error page escapes its message and title too. There are no visual changes. Recommended for all sites.

Maintenance release.

• Joomla 3 compatibility code removed throughout the template. The template's PHP now uses Joomla's current API everywhere — the template files, the component override and every layout override (cart, checkout, product details, login and the modules). The old code only worked while Joomla's Behaviour – Backward Compatibility plugin was switched on, and will not work at all on Joomla 6. The most serious case was the error page: when it failed, Joomla could not display any error page, so an ordinary “page not found” was served to your visitors as a 500 server error.

Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.

Joomla 5.4.8 and the VirtueMart 4.8.0 security update, plus the JavaScript fixes prepared since 5.4.0.3.

Important — please update VirtueMart

• VirtueMart 4.8.0 is a security release from the VirtueMart team (published 12 August 2026, revision 11339, “Eagle owl”). The Quick Start in this release installs it, and the demo this template is built from has been updated to it. If you already run a Dynamic store, update VirtueMart yourself — installing this template package does not update your store component. Get it from virtuemart.net or your Joomla Extensions Manager.

Changed

• Version numbering has changed. From this release the template version matches the Joomla version it is built and tested against, so Dynamic 5.4.8 is the build for Joomla 5.4.8. The previous number for this template was 5.4.0.3. Nothing about how you install or update the template changes, and Joomla still treats 5.4.8 as newer than 5.4.0.3.
• The Quick Start now installs Joomla 5.4.8. The previous Quick Start bundled Joomla 5.4.7. Starting a new site from it now gives you the current Joomla release without an immediate update afterwards.

Fixed

• The log-in dialog would not open. It still used the Bootstrap 2 attributes (data-toggle / data-dismiss), which Bootstrap 5 does not listen for, and it carried hide classes plus an inline display:none that Bootstrap cannot undo. It is now built on the Bootstrap 5 attributes as a properly centred dialog that opens and closes cleanly.
• Thirteen identical browser errors on every page load. The mobile select-menu plugin was still being started from the menu layout, but its loader had been removed — so selectnav is not defined fired once for every menu rendered. The modern mobile menu replaces it, so the old start-up call is gone.
• The drop-down menu script was failing (supersubs is not a function) — the plugin loader had been removed but the call was left behind, and it took the rest of that block down with it. The drop-downs are now driven by CSS.
• Two more scripts that could not work were removed: the old browser-detection shim (dropped from jQuery in 1.9) and the jQuery Mobile touch bundle, which throws while loading itself under jQuery 3.7 and which nothing on the page uses.
• The full-page background image was applied by a jQuery plugin whose loader no longer ships. It is now set with plain CSS (background-size: cover), which gives the same full-bleed result with nothing to load.
• Google Fonts were requested through Google's retired asynchronous webfont.js loader. They are now linked directly with preconnect hints, which is faster and no longer depends on a script Google has withdrawn.
• Two internal files were being packaged by mistake. templates/dynamic/html.zip — a 2023 snapshot of the template's own override files, 136 KB — and security-sweep-3f-report.md, an internal engineering report from our own modernization work. Neither was referenced by anything, neither was listed in the template's own file manifest, and both were inside every download. Both have been removed from the package and the Quick Start.

No template-parameter or database changes — installs as a straight overwrite.

Bugfix release. Fixes a legacy Joomla 3 form-validation call (behavior.formvalidation, removed in Joomla 5) in the VirtueMart login template override, which could cause a 500 - behavior::formvalidation not found error on pages where the login block is shown to guests — for example the cart, depending on your VirtueMart settings. The override now uses the Joomla 5-native behavior.formvalidator.

Found during the follow-up on the 2026-07-15 report — thank you again, Zoltán!

Bugfix release. Fixes a PHP 8 fatal error (count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given) on the cart "Bill To / Ship To" address edit page. The edit_address.php template override — and its Bootstrap-3 layout variant — now guard the optional user-fields block with !empty() instead of count(), so guest checkout address editing works on all PHP 8 versions. Recommended update for everyone running Dynamic 5.4.0.

Thank you, Zoltán, for taking the time to report this!

5.4.0 2026-06-01

Added

Joomla 5 native API

• Full Joomla 5 namespace compliance across all template files, overrides, and helper utilities — every Joomla\CMS\* class accessed through its namespaced form.
• templateDetails.xml rewritten to the J5 manifest schema with method="upgrade" declared so existing customers can update in place without uninstall-first. Extension-version declaration bumped to 5.0.
• VirtueMart 4 helper integration refactored end-to-end for J5 namespace resolution.

Bootstrap-grid CSS

• Joomla 5 stopped auto-loading Bootstrap CSS for templates; Dynamic now ships a minimal in-template Bootstrap-equivalent grid utility block (.row flex container + .col-md-N breakpoint rules + mobile fallback) so the existing .col-md-* markup renders correctly out of the box.
• Phase 5i.1 grid block + Phase 8b inner-row width fix together restore proper side-by-side footer + bottom-row layout on Joomla 5.

FontAwesome 6.7.2 + v4 shims

• Upgraded FontAwesome from 6.5.2 to 6.7.2 with the v4-shims stylesheet loaded alongside, so legacy fa fa-X syntax in customer content keeps rendering while new fa-brands fa-square-X / fa-solid fa-square-rss glyphs are used in template-managed markup.
• Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, TikTok, Discord glyphs now available (added in FA 6.6.0+).

Modern social-network support

• Social-media set parity — added Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord.
• Removed dead networks: Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Blogger, MySpace.
• X (the Twitter rebrand) replaces the legacy Twitter icon.
• Social-block parameter set extended: each network now has its own *ON visibility toggle plus URL field, with 5 reserved customSoc1–5 slots for ad-hoc additions.
• Quickstart defaults populate all *ON keys so the social row renders out of the box with placeholder URLs ready for customer fill-in.

Restructured footer layout

• New two-row footer markup: social icons centered across the top row, with copyright left + payment icons right on the second row.
• Mobile fallback (<768px) stacks all three blocks vertically and centers each.
• Higher-specificity CSS overrides ensure the layout wins over historic template.css rules without removing legacy declarations.

Menu hover bridges (Phase 6f + 6h)

• Top menu (Superfish): dropdown tightened to top: 34px flush with parent <a>'s bottom edge + padding-top: 8px invisible hover bridge + ::after belt-and-braces pseudo-bridge. Mouse can now move from parent down into the dropdown without the menu closing mid-transit.
• Mega-menu: same pattern retargeted to ul.menu-nav#mega-menu — dropdown to top: 30px + padding-top: 10px bridge.

CSS cache-busting (Phase 6i)

• templates/dynamic/css/template.css and blog.css are now loaded with a ?v=<filemtime> suffix appended automatically. Every CSS deploy produces a fresh URL so browsers and CDNs fetch new styles immediately, eliminating the historic "I updated the CSS but customers see the cached version" failure mode.

Security helpers (XSS hardening)

• Active .htaccess at the template root with a <FilesMatch> 403 rule for backup-extension patterns (.bak, .bak-*, pre-*, .orig, .old, .swp, .swo, .tmp, ~) so accidental on-server backup files cannot be HTTP-fetched.
• strip_tags() null-safety on parameter echoes (PHP 8.1+ deprecation fix).

Changed

J3 to J5 API migration

• Every deprecated J* static class call migrated to its namespaced equivalent: JFactory to Factory, JText to Text, JHtml to HTMLHelper, JUri to Uri, JRoute to Route, JComponentHelper to ComponentHelper, etc.

Modernization swaps (Phase 5)

• Legacy jQuery menu helpers replaced with Joomla 5 + Bootstrap-grid native rendering.
• Footer countModules call corrected from invalid 'footer-left && footer-right' string-argument to proper boolean expression, so the side-by-side footer layout fires correctly when both modules are published.
• Template radio-switcher fields all rewritten with JOFF-first / JON-second ordering matching Joomla 5 convention (red-left / green-right semantics).
• Contact Us footer module (mod_custom #120) icons rewritten from FA4 fa fa-X-square syntax to canonical FA6 fa-brands fa-square-X; "Joomla 3.7 / VirtueMart 3" tagline refreshed to "Joomla 5 / VirtueMart 4".

Category banner images (Phase 7d)

• Category top-row banner images (e.g. "New products", "Sale", "Hot products" stylized graphics) now render at the source 560x560 square aspect ratio via aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-fit: contain, fixing the "squished" appearance reported under the J5 grid CSS.

Quickstart database hardening (Phase 5)

• Phase 5h: Orphan vmadmin admin template fully removed — jos_extensions, jos_template_styles, jos_update_sites_extensions, jos_template_overrides (88 rows), and the administrator/templates/vmadmin/ directory all cleaned. administrator/templates/ now contains only the Joomla 5 stock atum + system templates.
• Phase 5j: Article hits counter reset. All #__content.hits values reset to 0 (was 18,627) before quickstart export so customers install with clean view-counts.
• Phase 5k.0: Full template-override security review — 88 disk files + 50 jos_template_overrides rows scanned with zero high-severity findings (no eval, no base64_decode, no raw $_GET/$_POST/$_REQUEST echoes, no untrusted file inclusions). 15 medium-severity flagged-for-review items all dispositioned as benign controller-level / sublayout-parent token patterns.
• Phase 5k.1–5k.3: All 50 Dynamic template overrides marked as checked.

Removed

• Orphan vmadmin admin template tree (administrator/templates/vmadmin/, 3.5 MB) — legacy VM3-era admin theme no longer needed under Joomla 5 + Atum.
• Phase 3e and Phase 5i backup files (*.bak-*) cleaned from the template tree before quickstart export.
• Stale Akeeba .jpa donor backups from the canonical download path.

Package format

• Standalone template: pkg_dynamic-5.4.0.zip — Joomla package wrapper that installs the tpl_dynamic template extension and registers it under the package manager. <blockChildUninstall>true</blockChildUninstall> prevents customers from removing the template directly via the Extensions Manager (must uninstall the package instead).
• Quickstart bundle: Dynamic-J5.4.6-Quickstart — complete Joomla 5.4.6 install with VirtueMart 4.6.8 Pro and Dynamic pre-loaded as the active template.

• Upgraded - Now compatible Joomla 5
• Upgraded - Now compatible Virtuemart 4.4.4
• Fixed - Minor bugs

• Fixed - Minor bugs with cart

• Upgraded - Now compatible Joomla 5
• Upgraded - Now compatible VirtueMart 4.2.12
• Fixed - Minor bugs

• Updated - Compatible with PHP 8.2
• Updated - Compatible with Joomla 4.3.4
• Updated - Compatible with VirtueMart 4.2.0
• Fixed - Minor bugs

• Fixed - VirtueMart Products Module issue
• Fixed - Double ReCaptcha on VirtueMart Registration page
• Fixed - Template toggle button not displaying

• Fixed - Menu Params error for adding in image on menu

• Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.3

• Fixed - Joomla 3.10.11
• Fixed - Template updated for PHP 8.0