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Overview
This is a major new release and brings DarkTabbed to full compatibility with XF 2.1 Official. Further, this update represents roughly 3-4 patches worth of changes which I have been prepping since XF 2.0.10.
Roughly 70-80% of my theme framework has been rewritten and tweaked, not only tightly integrating with XF2.1 but laying the foundation for more advanced updates and features.
Highlights
New Header Layouts
The new theme allows much greater flexibility over the header, including a
new combined title & breadcrumb row below the navigation. This is a common feature on many Wordpress sites.
You can also switch each section of the header to fixed vs stretch separately.
Style Properties -> [Nulumia] Header & navigation property group
New Compact Header
You can now change to a compact header layout, which combines the logo & navigation together. This can help save vertical space and create a more streamlined look!
Style Properties -> [Nulumia] Header & navigation property group
Full RTL Support
I have completely reworked my themes for extensive RTL support. Care was taken to make sure all custom features and sidebar settings are compatible.
Hide Sub-Navigation Links
You can now hide the sub-nav links and add them back to the parent nav tab instead, such as found on most any platform other than Xenforo. This can be used to help mask the classic "Xenforo look".
Style Properties -> [Nulumia] Header & navigation property group
New Social Icons System
There's now a much easier social icons feature -- select from up to 13 preset social media sites and the theme will display the icons for you, no more hunting for FontAwesome codes! Further, you can now select up to three different icon styles -- XF default, custom, and brand colors, which use matching colors for each social media site. Even more, you can specify different icon styling depending on location!
Style Properties -> [Nulumia] Social settings property group
Tight XF2 Integration
All Nulumia features such as slide show, logo carousel etc, now use Xenforo's macro system for better efficiency and extensibility. This will help enhance features over further patches.
JS Bugfixes
Several important Jquery bugs, some related to conflicts with iframes and external snippets have been solved.
Set Sidebar Position by Page
You can now specify sidebar left/right depending on different pages!
Style Properties -> [Nulumia] Sidebar settings property group
New Hooks System
If you've ran a Wordpress site before, you may be familiar with hooks. Basically, there's locations within the template that allow you to insert custom code on the fly, without having to edit core templates. I will be adding documentation soon for using the new hooks system.
Page Node Customization Options
The latest framework includes a custom options set for customizing HTML/node pages on the fly, without having to create special page_container templates. You can now do things like hide/show the title, breadcrumb, sidebar & notices, set page background color or image, change padding, etc.
I will be adding documentation on this soon.
Custom Contact Us Page & Inline forms
Two cool new features, the theme now comes packaged with a starter custom Contact page which you can edit with your own HTML, rather than editing core templates. You can also choose between using inline-forms, with labels above text fields instead of the side-by-side XF2 form style.
You can edit the new custom page at:
Templates -> nl_contact_page_wrapper
Addon Compatibility
As always, I am adding full style compatibility with as many new XF2.1 addons as possible and will be adding much more over coming updates.
XenPorta 2:
Upcoming Page Builder framework
Just a sneak peak on this, but the theme does currently package a working version of my new CSS Page Builder framework, a Boostrap-like library to build awesome HTML home/portal pages. I will be covering this more, for now though here is a screenshot of it in use:
** Important - PLEASE READ **
There is currently
no new documentation yet covering new features since the last update. I am finishing documentation and will update as soon as it's available.
FAQ
Q: Still marked beta theme?
A: While this is an official release since the XF2.1 beta theme, I'll be leaving this marked beta for a few days to watch for feedback.
Q: Should I overwrite the XF2.0 version of this theme?
A: In most cases, yes. If you've made only small customizations within your child/active style, it should be safe to just overwrite. If you've made many or heavy customizations to your 2.0.x theme over time, you may want to consider importing as a fresh new theme and remaking your changes. This is only because some new Templates and Style Properties are handled a bit differently in XF2.1, meaning some of your customizations may be out of date and need reverting.
Please PM me if you need advice!
Q: Will you continue development of the 2.0.x theme?
A: There is one more major release in development for XF2.0.x. Aside from bugfix or maintenance updates, further development will then only continue on XF2.1+.
Q: Where is the full changelog?
A: As you can see I don't have a full changelog this time. This is because there's literally hundreds of changes which I'm still compiling and forming documentation and will be posted asap.
In the works:
- Still working on UI overhaul
- Further improvements to color palette usage
- Page Builder framework
- Sample HTML home/pages
- Animated slide samples
- CSS-Animate-It features
- Finishing Echeon theme
