Easy Popup

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• Added Modern (2026) popup theme with blur overlay, rounded panel, accent colour, and coordinated open/close zoom and slide animations
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• Added Classic (Legacy) theme option to retain the original Fancybox appearance with pattern backgrounds and image close buttons
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• Refactored plugin for Joomla 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x with WebAssetManager asset loading and conditional script/style injection
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• Added external easypopup.js initialization with modern transition patching for panel and overlay sync
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• New admin tab: Modern Popup Design (width, height, margin, blur, accent colour, close button, ibtn styling)
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• Expanded opening/closing effects: Zoom, Slide up, and Slide down optimised for the Modern theme
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• Fixed inline popup content leaking onto the page — restored legacy hidden #popinline wrapper pattern
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• Fixed overlay=\"true\" caption class (popup_caption_overlay instead of popup_captiontrue)
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• Fixed image trigger dimensions — imgwidth and imgheight now output proper CSS width/height
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• Fixed external image URLs (Unsplash, CDN) not being double-prefixed with the site base URL
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• Fixed Modern theme yellow ibtn-yellow buttons showing white text instead of dark contrast text
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• Fixed Joomla 500 error caused by incompatible Event type hints on plugin event handlers
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• Improved image overlay hover fade behaviour and Modern theme image trigger styling with rounded corners
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• Compatible with Joomla 6.x
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• Added Shortcode Examples tab with 20+ ready-to-use examples and one-click copy functionality
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• Enhanced Font Awesome icon support with automatic detection and loading
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• Improved image overlay system with customizable colors, opacity, padding, font size, and borders
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• Added inline parameter support to override global settings per popup
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• Enhanced animation effects with fade, elastic, and none options with customizable speeds
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• Improved popup trigger detection and asset loading optimization
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• Fixed CSS and JavaScript loading to only occur when popup shortcodes are present
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• Enhanced icon rendering for Font Awesome icons in popup links and overlays
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• Improved code structure and performance optimizations
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• Better error handling and fallback mechanisms
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• No more support for Joomla 3.
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• Completely refactored popup plugin architecture for better performance and maintainability
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• Enhanced popup trigger detection with automatic fallback system
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• Improved popup functionality with optimized JavaScript performance
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• Single file installation for Joomla 4 & 5
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Bug Fixes

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• Fixed popup showing when it should be excluded on specific layouts
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• Resolved duplicate CSS and JavaScript loading issues
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• Fixed parameter name mismatch between PHP code and XML configuration
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• Improved exclusion logic for better reliability across different Joomla configurations
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• Supports Joomla 5 without Backward Compatibility Plugin
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• Updated display div to span.
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• Changes to Plugin Backend Parameters
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• Option to load jQuery in body removed.
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• Supports Joomla 4
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• Fixed issue with same content popup
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• Option to set RGBA background color
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• PHP Fixes
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• Uses Joomla Update System
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