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

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.

Over the last few weeks we have been working hard at updating all of our responsive site shapers to the newest Joomla 3.5.1, and we are happy to announce that this project is now complete! So now all brand new installations will be running the latest software updates right from the start. Of course, anyone already running Joomla can update Joomla at any time as well directly form the backend of Joomla. Joomla 3.5 brings a lot of great new features and harnesses the power and speed of php7! If you haven't tried out Joomla 3.5 yet, our Joomla 3 products are fully compatible with this latest version and we suggest upgrading today to receive all the latest upgrades and security updates.

We have recently discovered a security vulnerability in our S5 Media Player V2 plugin that could potentially allow someone to download unintended files, including system files, through it's download feature which is intended for mp3 files. This affects all verions 2.2 and lower. The latest 2.3 version has been updated to fix this issue and can be downloaded at the link below. We do not use this plugin very often and is included in our Game World and Risen Hope site shapers; which have also been updated to the latest versions. If you are unsure if you use this plugin simply search for "S5 Media Player" in Joomla's Plugin Manager to verify.

Download Latest Version of Media Player V2

Joomla has announced the official release of Joomla 3.5! This release brings 34 new features, including drag and drop images. You can read more about the update here:

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5654-joomla-3-5-is-here.html

We have tested numerous Shape5 Vertex templates with 3.5 and have not found any problems with our products running in 3.5. We feel confident that you can safely upgrade any Vertex install.

Forte, one of our popular free designs is now available for WordPress! Forte was designed to showcase off the many great features of our Vertex framework. It's clean design will adapt most any kind of website. Forte brings features and design that you would expect to see in a paid theme, but we are offering this amazing theme totally for free to introduce you to the power of our Vertex framework, which our paid theme are built on and share most of the same features.

This theme comes with many great features such as: customized S5 Image and Content Fader styling, custom highlight color, custom font options, enable or disable uppercase letters, hide sub arrows, full control over the body shadow, adjust the background and row colors via the Vertex admin, and much more! The best feature of Forte though is that it is 100% free! Be sure to check out the demo to see this and all of the other great features in action!

You can read more about Forte here:

http://www.shape5.com/wordpress/free_themes/forte_-_free_wordpress_theme.html

We are happy to announce that Vertex 4 for WordPress is now ready for download. You can head on over to the Vertex Framework download area, navigate to WordPress and grab the patch to upgrade your existing Vertex site to Vertex 4. Vertex 4 is completely backward compatible with previous Vertex themes, so you can continue using your old Vertex themes after patching!

You can read out more about the latest additions and features in our previous blog post here: http://www.shape5.com/blog/Vertex-4-Beta-Has-Been-Released.html