nuModusVersus

nuModusVersus is a free, multi-purpose template emphasizing in K2.

It comes with many content blocks: edge to edge slideshows, feature lists, a screenshots showcase, client spotlight, testimonials, a blog section and more.

It has 3 colour combinations, or your own through the template options, and 350+ icons for the highlight section of your front page. It supports K2 for slideshows and photo and video galleries inside articles, and it is mobile and tablet friendly.

nuModusVersus is a free port of the original "Modus Versus" PSD template designed by Dimitar Tsankov for webdesignerdepot.com.

Features

• Multi-purpose content blocks
• 3 colour combinations, plus your own
• 350+ icons for front page highlights
• Mobile and tablet friendly design
• Built for K2

Links

• Product page
• Live demo
• Template documentation
• Installation, content & customization guides

Requirements

• Joomla 3.9 or newer, including Joomla 3.x UTD
• PHP 7.1 or newer (tested up to PHP 8.5)
• K2 for the K2 layouts

License

Free template. See the Terms of Service.

Third-party code

Third-party code bundled with the template (versions as shipped; upstream status as of November 2026). Everything else is JoomlaWorks code.

Front-end

Library	Version	Location	License	Upstream
jQuery Tools (tabs)	1.2.7	js/behaviour.js	Public domain	Abandoned (2012)
normalize.css	2012-03-11 / 2.1.2	css/component.css / css/template.css	MIT	Latest 8.0.1
ZURB Foundation grid (CSS)	4.x	css/template.css, css/component.css	MIT	Latest 6.9
Font Awesome	3.2.0	fonts/nufontawesome	SIL OFL 1.1 (font), MIT (CSS)	Latest 7.x (renamed classes)
Bootstrap Icons (social network icons)	1.13.2	css/template.css, includes/socialshare.php	MIT	Current

Template settings (backend)

Library	Version	Location	License	Upstream
jQuery MiniColors	~2.0	includes/elements/assets/js/behaviour.js	MIT	Latest 2.3.6
jQuery Swipebox	early 1.x	includes/elements/assets/js/behaviour.js	MIT	Latest 1.4.6, barely maintained
jQuery Tools (tabs)	1.2.7	includes/elements/assets/js/behaviour.js	Public domain	Abandoned (2012)
Google WebFont Loader	1.x (Google CDN)	includes/elements/nubase.php, includes/variations.php	Apache-2.0	Latest 1.6.28, unmaintained
Ace editor	CDN build	includes/elements/nutextarea.php	BSD-3-Clause	Actively maintained

Changelog

Unreleased

Modernisation:

• No MooTools needed any more: K2 popups use K2's own modal (data-k2-modal), layouts no longer load MooTools or its tooltips, nuContent image popups use Joomla's modal behaviour without evaluated options (works with a strict Content Security Policy), and the template settings image field is plain JavaScript
• Removed code for Joomla versions before 3 and the "jQuery version" template parameter
• nuSlider 2.0: the content slider is now plain JavaScript in its own file (js/nuslider.js), with the same options and markup; Hammer.js, Minimit Anima, Bez, jquery.transform and the requestAnimationFrame polyfill were removed
• Removed the unused jQuery Tools mousewheel script
• Twitter is now X: the social profile setting links to x.com and is labelled "X", and the Twitter share widget is replaced by a plain "Post on X" link (includes/socialshare.php), so no platform.twitter.com script loads; the "via" account is the K2 Twitter username or, for articles, the template's X profile
• Google+ removed (the service closed in 2019): the Google +1 buttons and their apis.google.com script, the Google+ profile setting and the Google+ icon styles
• Social network icons from Bootstrap Icons: X, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Pinterest, Dribbble, Behance, GitHub and LinkedIn icons are SVGs drawn as CSS masks in the link's text colour (round and square variants included); class names are unchanged, so menu items that use them as link CSS classes keep working. Other networks keep the icon font

v2.0 - November 8th, 2026

• Requirements: Joomla 3.9 or newer (including Joomla 3.x UTD) and PHP 7.1 up to PHP 8.5
• PHP 8 compatibility: count() calls on values that may be empty (e.g. K2 tags, extra fields, attachments) replaced with empty() checks, so they no longer throw fatal errors on PHP 8; template parameters that are unset (e.g. on a fresh install) no longer pass null to string functions; the Google Fonts list is handled safely when its cache is missing or incomplete
• Tested on PHP 8.5 and PHP 7.4 by rendering the main Joomla views (home, featured, article, print view, category blog & list, archive, search, login, error page) and K2 views (item, print view, category, tag, user, search, date archive) for every K2 sub-template set: no PHP errors, warnings, notices or deprecations
• All PHP code formatted to the PSR-12 coding standard and checked for syntax errors on PHP 5.6, 7.4 and 8.1 to 8.5
• Internet Explorer support removed: conditional comments and IE-only <html> classes, the X-UA-Compatible and imagetoolbar meta tags, the html5shiv loader, IE CSS hacks (*prop, _prop, filter: progid:..., -ms- properties, zoom: 1, .lt-ie9/.isIE* rules) and IE-only image filters in inline styles
• Vendor prefixes removed where all browsers support the standard property (-moz-, -o-, -ms- and most -webkit- declarations, prefixed gradients and keyframes); legacy gradients converted to the standard syntax; ::-webkit-input-placeholder & co. replaced by ::placeholder
• CSS syntax errors and invalid declarations fixed (see below); empty rule sets and the obsolete speak property removed; stylesheets formatted one rule per line
• Images optimized losslessly (jpegoptim & optipng)
• Added the standard mobile-web-app-capable meta tag next to Apple's (Chrome deprecates the Apple-only one)
• Template manifest: Joomla 3.9 minimum, new update server, version 2.0
• Tested on the real demo sites (60 pages each, Joomla 3.x UTD 3.18) on PHP 7.4 and 8.5, before and after the update
• PHP 8 fatal errors fixed: Joomla tag pages (the id[] request array broke the <body> class), error pages rendered after a failed page ("Cannot redeclare function nuText()"), Joomla category list layouts ($this->item->params in a list view) and the K2 authors module (count() on an undefined list)
• K2 search module: removed the maxlength/size attributes whose values K2 no longer provides
• K2 layouts and modules no longer throw warnings for authors without a K2 profile, user pages without a description or undefined layout variables
• JFilterOutput::cleanText() now gets a variable (it takes its argument by reference)

Fixes specific to nuModusVersus:

• Google Fonts list no longer throws warnings when the font URLs haven't been cached yet
• Google Fonts: the cached font list was never read (the code decoded JFile::exists() instead of the file's contents), causing warnings on every page
• The <body> class and page class suffix no longer throw warnings
• Blog/featured "more articles" links now point to the right articles
• PHP 8 fatal error fixed: the Joomla archive view counted a string (count() on the pagination links)
• CSS: the Tumblr social icon now shows (content"\f173" was missing its colon)