Hi Ivo & Everyone
I know we all realise that Joomla 4 is coming, and I have been discussing with clients about upgrading some of my older client’s websites which still use Gantry4 and some older Rocket theme templates. I had thought about bringing these up to Gantry 5 templates (Inspire Theme) to make the move easier to move to Joomla 4. However, I am now wondering if that would only be making more work for me.
I did believe Joomla 4 would be here by now, but it seems a few months off yet. Ivo you said your templates will be upgraded to be compatible with Joomla 4, so if I upgraded to Gantry5 templates would it make the work easier or do you think I am best to wait and see for a while after Joomla 4 goes live?
Just wondering what other web designers are thinking.
Regards
Lynda
I know we all realise that Joomla 4 is coming, and I have been discussing with clients about upgrading some of my older client’s websites which still use Gantry4 and some older Rocket theme templates. I had thought about bringing these up to Gantry 5 templates (Inspire Theme) to make the move easier to move to Joomla 4. However, I am now wondering if that would only be making more work for me.
I did believe Joomla 4 would be here by now, but it seems a few months off yet. Ivo you said your templates will be upgraded to be compatible with Joomla 4, so if I upgraded to Gantry5 templates would it make the work easier or do you think I am best to wait and see for a while after Joomla 4 goes live?
Just wondering what other web designers are thinking.
Regards
Lynda
Responses (3)
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Accepted Answer
Hey Lynda,
Tags will soon be added to the Gantry 5 framework. You can find more details in this Pull Request.
And we will implement this functionality (fetching articles by Tag) shortly after
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Accepted Answer
Hi Ivo
That is what I was starting to think also, no point doing a lot of work now and more when Joomla 4 comes into effect - clients will not pay twice for an upgrade.
A lot of my older websites used Roksprocket quite a bit. I have contacted Rockettheme and they will NOT be supporting this going forward. I know I can get the same effect now from Joomla Particles. However, the Joomla particles only support category and not Joomla Tags which is something I really found useful when Rockettheme introduced this into Roksprockdet. Do you think it could be possible have Tags in Joomla Particles or is this something quite complicated. I am no coder.
Thanks
Lynda -
Accepted Answer
Hi Lynda,
I did believe Joomla 4 would be here by now, but it seems a few months off yet.
Me too! I did believe that a stable version of Joomla 4 will be released in the beginning/mid of the Summer 2019.
Anyway, back to your question - you will be safe if you start switching to Gantry 5 templates because both we and Rockettheme will make our Gantry 5 templates Joomla 4 compatible.
But in my opinion the safest option is to wait until Joomla 4 is released (should be in 2-3 months, hopefully) and then start updating and switching the templates.
Actually, it doesn't really matter, but still, I would wait for Joomla 4
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