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Lumina has no companion plugin. The page shell is one index.php<\/em> you can open and understand: semantic HTML5 landmarks, module positions where you would expect them, and CSS custom properties injected from the template parameters. There is no SCSS to compile, because there is no SCSS — the styles are plain CSS with custom properties, and the whole template runs on a single JavaScript file under 5 KB minified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n It also does not re-bundle what Joomla already gives you. Lumina ships no jQuery, no Bootstrap build and no Font Awesome font set of its own; it uses the copies already in media\/vendor<\/em>, shared with every other extension on your site. And it ships no font files at all<\/strong>: the type stack asks for Cormorant Garamond and Inter if the visitor already has them, and falls back to Georgia and the system sans if not. Nothing to download, nothing to shift while it loads. If you want a specific webfont served from your own domain, self-hosting it is a documented step rather than a fight with a framework.<\/p>\n\n This is the part we thought hardest about. Solidres’ booking flow binds all of its behaviour to delegated event handlers on the #solidres<\/em> wrapper, which means a template that forks those views is one refactor away from breaking silently.<\/p>\n\n So Lumina almost never forks them. The room-type page is the single Solidres view with an override, and it is there to add HotelRoom<\/em> structured data. Everything else — the property page, availability search, room selection, the checkout steps, the confirmation screen, the guest account — is restyled entirely through CSS scoped to #solidres<\/em>. Your booking flow keeps working exactly as it does today, and a future Solidres release cannot pull the rug out from under a layout fork that does not exist.<\/p>\n\n The same discipline applies to your modules. Lumina exposes 33 module positions<\/strong>, and deliberately keeps the names the Helix-based Solidres templates used — booking<\/em>, slideshow<\/em>, map<\/em>, sidebar-a<\/em>, sidebar-b<\/em>, top-a<\/em> to top-d<\/em>, bottom-a<\/em> to bottom-d<\/em>, footer<\/em>, toolbar-a<\/em> to toolbar-c<\/em>. Your existing module assignments come across instead of needing to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n A hotel in Santorini and a townhouse hotel in Edinburgh should not look like the same website. Lumina ships five presets — each a complete colour, contrast and mood change, not a hue slider:<\/p>\n\n Every colour in Lumina is a token, redefined for dark rather than filtered, and you choose how it behaves: follow the visitor’s system setting, force light, force dark, or give the visitor a toggle in the header. We audited roughly 37 pages across both light and dark, on desktop and phone, and fixed the contrast failures we found rather than shipping them.<\/p>\n\n Sixteen parameters across three tabs. Brand<\/strong> carries your logo, a separate dark-mode logo, the site title and the tagline. Style<\/strong> holds the preset, custom primary and accent colours, a heading and body font choice, three header styles (transparent over the hero, solid, or centred), three container widths and three hero heights. Features<\/strong> covers the dark-mode behaviour, the sticky booking bar and the back-to-top button.<\/p>\n\n A template on its own is a blank page with good manners. So Lumina ships with two quickstart packages — complete Joomla installs, with real photography, real content and the whole menu structure already built.<\/p>\n\n The boutique hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n One property, set up the way a small hotel actually wants it: Joomla’s home page is<\/em> the property page, so a visitor lands on the hero, the booking bar and the room types with no click in between. Rooms & Suites with a page per room type, add-ons, offers, five categories of tours with a booking tracker, a three-post journal, about and contact pages, the guest area and the footer policies. Coastal preset, transparent header, tall hero.<\/p>\n\n The booking portal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Twenty independent properties across sixteen cities, four partner accounts, subscription levels with commission rates, and ten tours — an OTA-style landing page with a search box over the hero, then bands for trending destinations, property types, featured stays, deals, themes, things to do, guest reviews and a list your property<\/em> pitch. Search results are two columns with the filter stack on the left. Urban preset, solid header.<\/p>\n\n Both quickstarts are built from the same package directory as the extension itself, so they cannot drift from the release, and both are installed and crawled end to end before they ship — 80 pages for the portal, 56 for the hotel, every one of them returning 200, with exactly one h1<\/em> and a meta description on each.<\/p>\n\n The layout is designed narrow-first: the search bar stacks rather than scrolling sideways, the booking summary opens as a full-screen overlay that follows your theme, and the navigation becomes a drawer that traps focus properly — verified by keyboard at 390 px and again at 400% zoom.<\/p>\n\n Lumina is built with a skip link, real landmark elements, aria-expanded<\/em> and aria-controls<\/em> on the navigation, a labelled theme toggle, visible focus states and a heading outline that does not skip levels. The room-type page emits HotelRoom<\/em> structured data, and every page in both quickstarts carries a single h1<\/em>, a meta description and no broken images — we crawl for it.<\/p>\n\n NOTE<\/span> What we are not<\/em> going to tell you is a Lighthouse score or a WCAG conformance claim. Those need auditing on a live host with real traffic, and we would rather say nothing than quote a number we produced on a laptop. If you run Lumina and audit it, we want to hear what you find.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n Worth knowing before you install it, because you will meet these:<\/p>\n\n Lumina is a separate download<\/strong> — it is not part of the Solidres core package, so updating Solidres will not put it on your site. You download it from your solidres.com account, on the same subscription levels that carry the other Solidres templates: Joomla Bundle, Joomla Hub and Joomla Developer<\/strong>. Install it like any Joomla template, pick a preset, point it at your logo, and assign your modules to the positions they already had. It updates itself through Joomla’s own updater from then on.<\/p>\n\n Starting a new site instead? Take the quickstart. It is a full Joomla install with Solidres, Lumina, the sample property or portal, the photography and the menus already in place — you change the name, swap the photos and the content, and you have a working booking site rather than a blank one.<\/p>\n\nBuilt around the booking funnel, not over it<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nFive presets, one template<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nDark mode is a mode, not an afterthought<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nEverything you would want to change, without touching CSS<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nTwo quickstarts: a finished site, not an empty one<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nOn a phone, which is where your guests are<\/h4>\n\n
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\n\nAccessibility and search, stated honestly<\/h4>\n\n
Where it is going next<\/h4>\n\n
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What you need<\/h4>\n\n
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How to get it<\/h4>\n\n