Hi Ciaran

in the German-/Swiss Joomla Community, we lately discussed Joomla's «Backward Compatibility» plugin. As we know, this plugin ensures the backward compatibility of extensions in Joomla 5 and is enabled by default. From time to time I am testing my websites if this plugin is still needed, since we know, that websites are loading faster without this plugin.

The official way of testing the Joomla 5 compatibility of a website is disabling the «Backward Compatibility» plugin. But this is clumsy, since this leads to errors like «HTTP Error 500», provided an active extension is not fully Joomla-5-compatible. Badly enough, this error is unresolvable from the Back-End, - you won't be able to enable the previously disabled plugin again from the Back-End. You would need to enable the «Backward Compatibility» plugin directly in the database, which is a little tedious way of doing it.

The following trick was presented at the JoomlaDay in Hamburg (Germany) a few days ago:
Use FTP and rename the folder plugins/behaviour/compat to plugins/behaviour/compat.old or anything like this.

Please excuse this somewhat lengthy introduction. The point is: almost any of my extensions seem to be working fine without the plugin mentioned above. But my J51 templates are not. Since I am a diligent user of J51 templates, hardly any of my websites works without this plugin. I am not putting pressure, I am just asking... Is there a timeline for an updated (fully Joomla 5 compatible) version of your templates?

Thank you and kind regards
Chris