Popular Moodle theme “Shoehorn” maintained by Gareth J Barnard is updated to new version making it compatible for Moodle 2.9 beta version.
The list of changes in the new version of the Shoehorn theme are as follows:
- Fix source map URL for development version after upgrading to ‘grunt-contrib-less’ version ‘~1.0.0’.
- Tidy up logo code and information in language file.
- Tidy up experimental RTL serving.
- Tidy up and fix syntax highlighting – work in progress.
- Adjust carousel control icons responsively.
- Messages popup on the left to avoid anti-gravity icon.
- Tidy up compact navbar.
- Remove dependancy on parent ‘bootstrap’ theme.
- Update to Bootstrap 3.3.4.
- Update to Font Awesome 4.3.0.
Shoehorn is a Bootstrap version 3 theme that uses Bas Brand’s Bootstrap theme as a parent. It has many innovative features:
- Accordion block regions.
- Bespoke copyright statement.
- Bespoke login page message.
- Docking.
- Compact navigation bar option.
- Course tiles option.
- Dynamic and customisable footer menu.
- Dynamic social icons sign with correct icon colours.
- Fixed navigation bar option.
- Footer blocks.
- Front page slider that can be disabled on mobiles / tablets reducing bandwidth.
- Image bank for storing images that you can use anywhere on the site.
- Individual control over: front page slides, marketing spots and site pages with:
- ‘Draft’ / ‘Published’ state.
- ‘before login’, ‘after login’ or ‘always’ visibility.
- Set specific language only visibility.
- Intelligent home footer link that goes back to the most appropriate location.
- Login page changing background images option.
- Marketing spots.
- Messages menu.
- My courses menu option with allocated dynamic icons.
- Page bottom blocks.
- Site pages that you can customise with your own content.
- Slider navigation of course content with the ‘One section per page’ course layout setting.
- Social icons with dynamic signpost if desired.
- Syntax highlighting on content if desired.
- Transparency control of front and other pages.
You can download the latest version of the shoehorn theme from this link: https://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_shoehorn
