Helix Ultimate features, release date and more
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A few months back we announced that we are going to release a new flagship version of the most famous Joomla template framework Helix. From that moment on, many of our valued users shared their views and feedback regarding the product. We are working on Helix Ultimate for a while now. The community is eagerly waiting for that, wants to know the progress, release date and so on. Today we are going to clarify everything.
Helix Ultimate is the next major release of your beloved Helix framework. After Helix 3, there will be no Helix 4. We’re calling the next major version of Helix as ‘Helix Ultimate’.
We have plans to support Helix Ultimate for a longer period of time. For that reason, we’re taking time to do more research on how the product will behave when Joomla 4 or Joomla 4.x will arrive. Also, we are developing Helix Ultimate using Bootstrap 4. While Bootstrap 4 itself is not stable yet, we are waiting for a stable release of the Bootstrap framework.
Helix Ultimate features added so far
- Developed by Bootstrap 4
- New admin interface
- New layout builder
- Header variations
- Footer variations
- SVG logo options
- Mega menu builder
- More blog options
- Improved performance
- Open graph support
- Vertical menus
Features we are working on
AMP support
We are working to add Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) support to Helix Ultimate. We’ve made some progress. But it still requires a lot of research to do. So we can’t guarantee it will be added to the final version of Helix Ultimate.
Some important facts you should know regarding Helix Ultimate
- Direct upgrade from Helix 3 to Helix Ultimate will not be possible. But we will continue supporting Helix 3 during Joomla 4 and Joomla 4.x releases.
- Helix Ultimate is going to be developed with the newest of technologies. So, upgrading from Helix 3 to Helix Ultimate will not happen as the nature of the development of both these products is different.
- We will support Helix Ultimate for a longer period of time and we will provide seamless support to Joomla 3.x and Joomla 4.x versions.
- After the release of Helix Ultimate and Joomla 4, there will not be any support for Helix II. We will drop Helix II.
- Some of our team members working on Helix Ultimate will be in Rome, Italy, to attend Joomla World Conference 2017. That's why we won’t be able to release Helix Ultimate in December. It will be released in January.
First Look
These are some of the first looks at Helix Ultimate.
Layout builder
Figure: Layout builder of Helix Ultimate
Mega menu builder
Figure: Mega menu builder of Helix Ultimate
Frontend template
Figure: Default frontend template of Helix Ultimate (Please click to see the full view)
Release timeline
- Release of Alpha version--> January 11/12, 2018
- Release of Beta version--> January 16, 2018
- Release of RC version--> January 25, 2018
- Release of Stable version--> February 15, 2018
So we believe this answers most of your queries. The product will be something beyond your imaginations. We are considering every pros and cons to deliver a perfect product that will perform with the fullest potential to serve you as you expected. If you need more clarification, please feel free to give your opinions and thoughts in the comment section below.
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Will Helix 4 allow multiple rows in columns?
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You always work a few steps behonds our imagination.. As i see the first screenshots looks very promising !
Thanks and long life to Joomshaper
But when you have a Row "Slideshow" followed by a Row "Component", there is no way to have a Right column covering those *two* rows.
If not yet foreseen, would be a nice feature !
Thanks for pointing out.
eagerly awaitung Helix Ultimate...
так тримати! ;)
Thank you, for all you guys do! You make Joomla so much more user friendly!
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You mean that I can setup my website now with Helix 3 and after the Helix 4 release, it will possible to install that version and continue my site?
(Sorry for Bad English!)
2105 Free Icons...
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Hope he will do the same with the doc as he did with helix 2 and 3
I'm still using Helix II (which, by the way, currently doesn't behave correctly with Joomla 3.8.X) for company's website — for 3 to 4 years now. I think I'll wait for Helix Ultimate release and then redo our website for new framework.
Thank you, guys, for your hard work and excellent products!
Thank you for your Helix framework. I really like it.
Would it be possible to update LESS compiler so we can use :extend ? When I try this inside Helix 3 it throws error....and it would be awesome to add this also into current Helix3. Adding extend would help with css output and its size on larger projects.
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Iam from Africa Mozambique my linguage is Português from Portugal
iam wait helix ultimate
Will this work smoothly?
Regards,
Syed H
I really like the flexibility of Helix3 so ultimate is really catching my interest.
The only thing I have not found easy that the other 2 big ones do well is splitting menus that have a top level item with lots of sub items into multiple columns. I love the mega menus but sometimes just being able to split a drop down menu into multi columns so they fit on the page is needed and useful. Usually its as simple as adding the number of columns against the top level menu item then the sub items are split into 2, 3 or 4 columns. \If this could be implemented it would be fantastic
Helix 3 and SobiPro had more javascript conflicts. Will the new Helix Ultimate be tuned for the SobiPro component?
At the beginning of this article it is said that the alpha version will appear today ... Where can I download?
Why did you remove the off-canvas Full Screen option? It was very useful.
The Hits are only seen in the single article view but not on the blog layout.
In helix3 the hits are shown in the blog view, too.
But at all its great!