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Joomla! 3.9 RC was released on Oct 10, 2018 and we’ve been busy testing it. The Joomla! Core Team and community members have put a lot of effort into it, especially the new Privacy Suite which is the highlight of this release. We’ve completed the integration with Joomla! 3.9 new Privacy Suite, when Joomla! 3.9 Stable released, we will release a new Solidres version which has full support for it. We strongly recommend all users to use the new Privacy Suite instead of other 3rd extensions.

Another exciting new feature is the new Log Rotation plugin, it offers basic log rotation functionality for a Joomla! site, if you need more advanced log rotation functionality, Sidekick is a good choice for you.

Joomla 4, the next big thing, has reached the BETA 2 version recently. We are working very hard to make sure that Solidres and Joomla 4 is continuing to be the great combination like we were with Joomla 3, or even greater.

One of the Joomla 4 biggest features is the adoption of Bootstrap 4, we hope it can end the Bootstrap version chaos at this moment when we have to support Bootstrap 2, 3 and 4 at the same time. Supporting multiple Bootstrap versions is a nightmare for developers like us, we made a lot of progress but it is never perfect.

Joomla 3 UI is built upon Bootstrap framework v2 while the upcoming Joomla 4 UI is built upon Bootstrap framework v5, they have so many differences and it is a challenge for extension developers like us. To maintain a high-quality product, starting from Solidres for Joomla v2.12+ we will provide official support only for Bootstrap 2 (if you use Joomla 3) and Bootstrap 5 (if you use Joomla 4). That means we will drop support for other intermediate Bootstrap versions that Joomla does not support like Bootstrap v3 and v4.

Thank you for your understanding, we are looking forward to a bright future with the upcoming Joomla 4 ahead.

Today (10/11/12) is a special date for Solidres Team, we are happy to announce the first public version of Solidres is released (v0.1.1). This beta version should be used for preview purpose and it is not yet ready for production deployment. We’d love to hear your feedback and we are constantly looking forward to make Solidres better.

Our first task to get Solidres released is done however we still have a lot of works to do, in the upcoming weeks we will focus on fixing bugs, adding features as well improve the documentation (which need a lot of work we know)

Below is some useful links for you to get started with Solidres:

• Online demo (frontend only): http://solidres.com/demo
• Forum for discussion: http://solidres.com/forum
• Documentation: http://solidres.com/documentation

Happy special date!

We’d like to announce the 2 new updates for our templates Luxuria and BlueBee:

BlueBee 3.0.0:

• Add support for Solidres 0.7.x.
• Add support for Hub.
• Add support for module Coupons.
• Add support for module Extras.
• Add support for module FreeStyle Testimonials.
• Add support for module AcyMailing.
• Fix read more button link in home page.
• Add more context CSS classes for Body tag
• Update some missing/hard code translation strings
• Update to Warp 7.2
• Remove unused fonts.
• Remove unused sample data images.

Like our previous Joomla templates 7Start and BlueBee, Luxuria is developed specifically for Solidres but it has more features and enhancements.

Luxuria, originally a Joomla templates has been ported to WordPress theme, all WordPress users can access and download it by subscribing to the WordPress BUNDLE subscription level. In addition to Luxuria theme, we’ve also released 05 new plugins to support this theme, include:

Every Joomla developer has a version of this story. You copy the production database to a staging site to reproduce a bug, run a test order, and a few seconds later four hundred real customers receive an order confirmation for a purchase they never made. Or you spend an afternoon chasing a registration email that a user swears never arrived, with nothing to go on but a hopeful glance at the server mail log.

Mail Catcher has always solved the second half of that problem: it catches, logs and shows you every email your Joomla site sends. Version 2.1.0 solves the first half too, and adds the housekeeping, export and search tools that a mail log needs once it has been running for a few months.

We’d like to introduce Mail Catcher, a brand new Joomla component for catching, logging and monitoring emails sending in your Joomla site.

It is very useful for developers and administrators to monitor and keep track of ALL emails sent from Joomla site for debugging and administration purposes.

The dashboard display reports and statistics information so that developers and administrators can stay on top of ALL email sending activity in Joomla! site, every abnormal activities from spammers, attackers or from some malfunctioned installed extensions can be discovered quickly.

For years, one plugin called Statistics quietly ran two of the most important screens in Solidres: the daily booking calendar your front desk lives in, and the reports you check to see how the business is doing. Those are two very different jobs — so we’ve split them into two purpose-built tools, and rebuilt both from the ground up. Say hello to Front Desk and Dashboard — arriving with the upcoming Solidres 4.1.0 release.

Pricing is the engine room of every booking site. So we rebuilt Solidres’ most important pricing tool — the Complex Tariff editor — completely from scratch. Say hello to the new Rate Plan plugin: same powerful rates, a faster and far friendlier editor — arriving with the upcoming Solidres 4.1.0 release.

The Solidres integration with MyAllocator.com reaches end of life on 1 October 2026. From that date MyAllocator can no longer be used as a provider in the Solidres Channel Manager plugin, and synchronisation stops. If your property syncs through MyAllocator today, you have about five weeks to move to the Solidres Channel Manager or to Beds24.

Since Experience v0.7.0 release, we added a new feature to show associated accommodations for an experience (tour & activity). You can edit your experience item, in tab Publishing select accommodations that are associated with your experience items, then in front end of your experience item, each accommodation will be displayed as a separated tab which shows some basic information about the accommodation.

Beds24 is the second channel manager integration for Solidres, now users can choose the favorite channel manager to provide the inventory/rate synchronization capability for Solidres. The documentation is available here, for any questions regarding Beds24, please post in our forum or the private support ticket system.

We received many questions from our users, especially from apartment owners who want to allow guest to rent their apartment in full (all rooms) at a discount rate or guest can rent separated rooms. It is now possible with the new Complex Tariff plugin and Solidres for Joomla 2.7.0. New Complex Tariff plugin has a new tariff type called “Per room type per stay” that allows owners to set a special discount rate if guest book the entire apartment, it is very convenient and easy to set up.

We’ve added a new feature for Experience plugin so that it allows booking per time slots and per resource. A resource is a general term and the exact meaning depends on your business type. If your business is about travel, then resource could be your tour guide. If the system you want to build is for dental appointment making, then resource is the doctor. There are many use cases for this new Experience feature.

The Custom field is one of the features that Solidres users use the most. However the current custom field feature is limited to customer’s fields only, now we are improving it to add support for room form as well, it will allow the administrator to define custom fields for room form easily, just like the customer’s fields. Please check the following screenshot for more details:

This new feature will be available for Custom Field plugin 1.0.0 and Solidres for Joomla 2.8.0.

Since Experience plugin v1.4.0, we added a new feature to allow experience owner to insert their custom tabs, this feature is very useful if you want to show extra content in front end to end users in separated new tab without having to modify the layout files. To use it, first make sure that you are using Experience plugin v1.4.0+, then edit your experience item > Custom tab and add new tab there.

Since Solidres 3.3.0 BETA, you can now test the new Dynamic deposit feature. It can be activated from your property > Publishing > Enable dynamic deposit, from there you can define multiple deposit amounts based on the interval between the reservation created date and the arrival.

It is a new feature for Hub plugin: Embedded Check Availability form. Now Hub owner can allow partner to embed a check availability form into partner’s external sites, the embedded form will forward all booking request to Hub site and forwarded guests will complete reservation in Hub site instead of partner’s external site. This is not only a great way to increase traffic and revenue for Hub site but also a convenient way for partner to have an internet booking engine integrated in their site.