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xTailwind2: A Sharper Tailwind Theme for XOOPS [by Mamba]

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:30:27 +0000

XOOPS Design Team::xTailwind2: A Sharper Tailwind Theme for XOOPS
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xTailwind2 is a new Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI-powered theme for XOOPS 2.5.11+, created to deliver a more polished and modern front-end experience. Instead of feeling like a generic utility-based skin, it focuses on stronger visual hierarchy, cleaner content presentation, and a more intentional overall atmosphere.

The theme introduces a floating glass-style navigation bar, a more editorial homepage hero, quieter side rails, and a refined central content canvas that helps articles and module content stand out. It also includes six curated palettes, with both light and dark moods, so the site can shift personality without losing consistency.

Under the hood, xTailwind2 keeps the flexibility of Tailwind CSS while tightening the design system around XOOPS itself. Blocks, typography, tables, links, and other raw XOOPS output are styled to feel more cohesive, and the theme switcher remembers the visitor’s preferred light and dark palette choices for a smoother experience.

If you want a XOOPS theme that feels lighter, more contemporary, and more design-driven than a standard framework port, xTailwind2 is a strong step forward.

Download: https://github.com/mambax7/xtailwind2

Happy Theming!

xTailwind — a fresh Tailwind CSS theme for XOOPS 2.5.11+ [by Mamba]

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:28:57 +0000

XOOPS Design Team::xTailwind — a fresh Tailwind CSS theme for XOOPS 2.5.11+
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We're excited to introduce xTailwind, a new theme for XOOPS 2.5.11+ that brings the modern utility-first approach of Tailwind CSS to the XOOPS ecosystem. Paired with DaisyUI's elegant component library, xTailwind gives site administrators and developers a fresh alternative to Bootstrap-based themes — without sacrificing any of the features you expect.

Why Tailwind?

Tailwind CSS has reshaped how modern websites are built. Instead of pre-styled components you override and fight against, Tailwind provides small utility classes you compose to build exactly what you want. The result is less CSS, more control, and designs that don't all look the same.

DaisyUI sits on top of Tailwind to bring back the convenience of semantic component classes — btn, card, navbar, modal, dropdown — along with a built-in theming system. It's the best of both worlds: utility-first flexibility when you need it, ready-made components when you don't.

34 Themes, One Click Away

xTailwind ships with DaisyUI's full collection of 34 pre-built themes: light, dark, cupcake, corporate, cyberpunk, synthwave, dracula, forest, sunset, nord, and many more. Users can switch between them live from the navbar, with no page reload.

The switcher is accompanied by a clean Light/Dark toggle button with a translatable text label. Both preferences are saved to the visitor's browser and persist across sessions. A tiny inline script applies the saved theme before the page paints, so there's never a flash of the wrong colors.

Drop-In Simplicity for Site Admins

We know most XOOPS site administrators aren't JavaScript developers, and we respect that. xTailwind is a true drop-in theme: download it, copy it into your themes/ directory, activate it in XOOPS admin, and you're done. The compiled CSS ships with the theme. No Node.js. No npm. No build step.

Developers who want to customize styles, add components, or bundle a new DaisyUI theme can still do all of that — the source files are right there in the repo, and rebuilding takes one command. But that's an opt-in path, not a requirement.

Built for the Modern Web

Behind the scenes, xTailwind embraces everything that makes modern web development pleasant:

- Alpine.js for declarative interactivity — dropdowns, mobile navigation, toasts, and modals all work without a single custom JavaScript file. Shared from xoops_lib/Frameworks/alpine/ so multiple Tailwind themes can use the same copy.
- XoopsFormRendererTailwind — a brand-new form renderer contributed to XOOPS core that outputs native DaisyUI form components. Every XOOPS form (user registration, admin preferences, module settings) renders with proper Tailwind styling, matching whichever DaisyUI theme is active.
- Native RTL support via Tailwind's logical properties (ms-/me-, text-start/text-end) and the XOOPS _TEXT_DIRECTION constant. Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian sites get correct mirroring automatically.
- WCAG AA contrast baked into every DaisyUI theme's color palette.
- Self-hosted with no external CDN dependencies, following the same principle as xSwatch5.

A New Architecture, Not a Replace...

xSwatch5 v2.0 — Bootstrap 5.3 Arrives, With a Twist You Can Actually See [by Mamba]

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:24:43 +0000
XOOPS Design Team::xSwatch5 v2.0 — Bootstrap 5.3 Arrives, With a Twist You Can Actually See
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We're thrilled to announce the release of xSwatch5 v2.0, a complete refresh of the beloved xSwatch theme family for XOOPS. This release brings your site into the modern web with Bootstrap 5.3.8, and adds some features we think you'll genuinely enjoy using every day.

Pick Your Look, Live

The headline feature is the brand-new Theme Switcher right in your navbar. With a single click, your visitors can instantly switch between any of the 21 bundled Bootswatch variants — Cerulean, Cosmo, Slate, Darkly, Lux, Minty, and more. No page reload, no admin panel, no fuss. Their choice is remembered across visits.

Even better: the switcher builds its list automatically from the theme's CSS folders. Drop a new variant directory in, and it appears in the dropdown. No configuration, no code changes, no cache to clear.

Light Mode, Dark Mode, Your Call

Right next to the theme picker lives a Dark/Light toggle button with a clear label so users always know what they'll get. It uses Bootstrap 5's native Color Modes API, which means each Bootswatch variant now includes both light and dark styles in a single CSS file. That's half the CSS payload compared to the old dual-stylesheet approach.

On first visit, the theme respects the visitor's OS preference. Once they make a choice, it sticks — saved to browser storage with no cookies, no tracking, no HTTP overhead. A tiny script runs before the page paints, so there's never a flash of the wrong theme.

Right-to-Left, Out of the Box

For the global XOOPS community, v2.0 ships with automatic RTL support. The theme reads the _TEXT_DIRECTION constant from your language pack and Bootstrap 5's logical properties handle the rest — spacing, alignment, dropdowns, and layouts all mirror correctly for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and other RTL languages.

The Foundation: Modern, Accessible, Clean

Under the hood, every template has been rebuilt for Bootstrap 5.3.8. That meant touching dozens of files across the main theme and module overrides for 13 popular XOOPS modules — newbb, publisher, wggallery, xoopsfaq, and more. Along the way we:

- Dropped jQuery dependency from Bootstrap (XOOPS core still uses it, but the theme itself is vanilla JS)
- Tightened WCAG AA contrast across every color combination in every variant
- Fixed absolute image paths so subdirectory installs work correctly
- Cleaned up dead code, duplicate selectors, and BS3 leftovers
- Switched to the current form renderer (XoopsFormRendererBootstrap5)

Compatibility

xSwatch5 v2.0 works on XOOPS 2.5.11 and later. The theme runs cleanly on 2.5.11 with RTL auto-detection becoming active on 2.5.12+. PHP 8.2 or newer required.

A Family Legacy

This release stands on the shoulders of years of community work. The xSwatch story began in 2016 with Richard Griffith's (Geekwright) original theme, evolved through Bootstrap 3 and 4, and got its first Bootstrap 5 migration from Alain01 in 2023. v2.0 builds on all of that — keeping what worked, polishing what didn't, and adding the live theme switching that users have...

XOOPS.org extremely slow [by kevinpetit]

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:27:03 +0000
XOOPS.org feedback & suggestions::XOOPS.org extremely slow
Hey all,

I have noticed that XOOPS.org has become extremely slow the last few times I have used it - I now that historically, the hosting of XOOPS has been done by a list of companies going back years and years ago with it being sponsored for a while even.
A lot of consolidation has happened in the webhosting market and the current host of xoops.org, Arvixe, has been acquired in a loop where a company gets acquired and the websites get moved to new hardware with very strict resource limitations set on it. That has led to the XOOPS.org website being extremely slow, while the costs for the hosting have probably increased a lot.
The same thing has happened with a lot of web hosters, all being acquired by Newfold Digital, Inc (who used to be known as Endurance Group). They're known for this kind of thing where they acquire good webhosts and then just drop all kinds of support/outsource it, performance gets really bad and prices go up.

I have been having real issues today where several pages just refuse to load or take VERY long to load and I suspect others are also having the same issues.
I also had issues where a password reset link didn't want to send (Failed to write message to sendmail (broken pipe).)

Instead of continuing to use Arvixe (of which the price and performance will only worsen), I would suggest we look into another hosting partner/provider that isn't a part of Newfold Digital, Inc and perhaps even go with a VPS at a provider like DigitalOcean, which will likely provide a MUCH better performance to price ratio.

Previously, I worked at the biggest webhost in my (European) country, so I do have a lot of experience with webhosting, tweaking things and managing a server. I am absolutely willing to offer support here to help manage a server or help improve the configuration/tweaking things. But right now, xoops.org has gotten so slow that something needs to happen.

Re: TPL admin xsitemap [by Mamba]

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:47:55 +0000
File repository - Maintenance::TPL admin xsitemap
Thank you very much for the translation, but it would be better if you would submit it to the XOOPS Languages:

https://github.com/XoopsLanguages/french

and add it to the /modules folder there.

Merci!

Re: Happy Holidays! [by Mamba]

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:56:52 +0000
XOOPS.org announcements::Happy Holidays!
Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.

May the coming year bring peace, clarity, and new opportunities for all.

Re: Cookie consent message [by Mamba]

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:24:13 +0000
Technology, Tools, Best Practices::Cookie consent message
You can use the xswatch theme that is included with XOOPS

Or you can take a look how it is done, and then replicate it in your theme.

Re: imponeer/archive-download-builder — Modern Replacement for XOOPS Downloader Classes [by Mamba]

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:22:39 +0000
Technology, Tools, Best Practices::imponeer/archive-download-builder — Modern Replacement for XOOPS Downloader Classes
Nice job!

Thanks for sharing!

Unfortunately, we won't be able to use for the time being, as XOOPS 2.5.12 should be working with PHP 7.4

Re: Private Messaging isn't working to send messages (email me please mamba/cesag) [by Mamba]

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:21:27 +0000
XOOPS Project Teams::Private Messaging isn't working to send messages (email me please mamba/cesag)
The PM should be working now.

Thanks for reporting it!

[ Driven them Xoopsy Objectivity ] : [ It's now a Xoopsy World's!!! ] : [ Stiens System 12 ] [by wishcraft]

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:14:45 +0000
XOOPS.org Members Lounge::[ Driven them Xoopsy Objectivity ] : [ It's now a Xoopsy World's!!! ] : [ Stiens System 12 ]
My apologies to not signing in and seemingly to have dropped out of the xoops.org forum and developing stuff for xoops all of a sudden there was a couple of reasons for this namely; I was just a bit burnt out and had to work on something else for a bit seemingly I don't have much coming from Marrickville South, Australia, NSW, much in the way of physical contact with the xoops community largely being in europe, asia and america it doesn't have much take up in australia to much so I don't get to meet and greetz people to oftern, the other reason this condition I am partly here to fix coming from a completely seperate floor in the space-time continuum produced itself with me having my head beamed off in a place of respite of concord hospital and me being able to exhume which allows with M1999999 allocated to me 'Simmon Stephan Xaies' register simon.xaies@gmail.com which has always been a network authority on the chipset Stien System for forwarding and whitelisting so I have been working on a new stien system version 12 which you all probably been slapped by my slap box already if your not running it and your eyeware goggles aren't themed you can get what you need to apply it from https://bit.ly/MoniesStiens without any trouble... Most of everything here been running Version 4+5+6+8 only and where I am from running version 11; so this is more than just a machine layer chipset now running here in the digital layer it is a complete organic mechanism and multirailed solution...

So with that done I am coming back to xoops.org, but I also included in the Manette.txt of the chipset the Source-code: //sourceforge.net/p/xoops that will change between xoops/mvcps depending if you want an xoo oop structure or an mvc structure unlying in your modeling of your very own body and hemaglobins which also run this; which the system developed the final core releases for xoops in version 2.7 and seperated the MVC introduced in 2.6 to a whole library and framework itself called MVCPS version 1.1; which these cores are complete from the physicality of the system incorporating everything need by design for it and also back dated some systems into final releases of earlier versions of the core having what it turned the preloads into an full blow events handlers that allows you to modify absolutely everything in core function without having to manipulate the code...