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To our Shape5 community,

Shape5 started over eleven years ago when Joomla was in its infancy. The company was founded by two young designers who had a passion for building websites and stretching the limits of innovation in this newly founded CMS market. The goal was always to create a sustainable company that provided cutting edge Joomla templates with modern technologies such as CSS3 and HTML5. The successes of Joomla and the successes of Shape5 over the coming years were a roller coaster with never a dull moment as there was always a place to improve!

After some requests and just in light of making things easier for our customers we have released a Vertex Updater Component for our Joomla templates. You can now use this free component to update the Vertex framework whenever we release a new version of Vertex right from the backend of UI of Joomla. Anytime your Joomla template admin shows a Vertex framework update is available on the "Overview" tab just head on over to the component to upgrade the framework. It installs just a like a normal Joomla component and it will automatically check for a new Vertex version if its available and download it directly to your website. If there is a new version available you can then select the template(s) on your site that you want to update. Simply check the box, click update and you are done! No more FTP'ing files, and no more dealing with file permission issues. Head on over to the Vertex Framework Downloads area to grab a copy.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Shape5! From now until January 2, 2018 receive 40% off of any new or renewing Developer Memberships, and 30% off of any new or renewing Basic and Best Value Memberships. Don’t let this sale pass you by! This is one of our largest sales ever!

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If you've recently updated your Joomla site to version 3.8 you will notice that your main menu has disappeared. There was a class name change that stopped our Vertex menu from working. We have updated our patch to fix this issue and all of our templates and site shapers also are now running the latest version of Vertex version 4.2. If you need the patch for your website simply reinstall the latest patch here and main menu will show up again:

https://www.shape5.com/documentation/Vertex-Framework/Joomla-Specific/How-To-Patch-Vertex-In-Joomla-and-Changelog

End of Summer Sale! From now until September 8, 2017 receive 40% off of any new or renewing Developer Memberships, and 25% off of any new or renewing Basic and Best Value Memberships. Don’t let this sale pass you by!

Discount codes to use at signup:

This sale is now expired.

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It's hard to believe but this May marks the 10 year anniversary of Shape5! These past 10 years have been a blast and we have loved creating all the Joomla and WordPress templates that have been released. In light of this milestone we've wanted to say thank you by running a sale. Without your loyal support, we would have never made 10 years! From now until May 21, 2017 receive 30% off of all Basic and Best Value Plan and 40% off all Developer Plans! Thank you for being loyal supporters of Shape5, and we look forward for many years to come!

Discount code to use at signup:

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Please note that you will need to update your Vertex version to version 4.1 if you updated to Joomla 3.7. Your site will not load properly if Vertex is not on the latest version.

The following blog post was written by one of our long time members Niels Klint (known as KlintWeb on the forums). We value him as a member and greatly appreciate that he took the time to write the following post. He explains how he achieves 100% pagespeed score and 100/100 for both the mobile and desktop pagespeed tools using Shape5 templates:

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Vertex 4.1 for Joomla and WordPress! This new version fixes several bugs, and includes some new additional features. The major changes as well as upgrade instructions are listed in the guides below.

Joomla:

http://www.shape5.com/documentation/Vertex-Framework/Joomla-Specific/How-To-Patch-Vertex-In-Joomla-and-Changelog

WordPress:

http://www.shape5.com/documentation/Vertex-Framework/WordPress-Specific/How-To-Patch-Vertex-In-WordPress-and-Changelog

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Shape5! From now until January 2, 2017 receive 40% off of any new or renewing Developer Memberships, and 30% off of any new or renewing Basic and Best Value Memberships. Don’t let this sale pass you by! This is one of our largest sales ever, and sales like this don’t come around very often!

Discount codes to use at signup:

This sale has expired

These discounts will already be applied on the Join Now and Renewals pages. They cannot be combined with other discounts.