Dashboard is the initial screen of the framework that you see when you open a template from Joomla Template Style Manager. This screen applies to all templates powered by VP Framework.

Overview

This section provides you the general information of the template style instance.

Style Name

This is the name of the templates style instance. It always has to be an unique one. Joomla allows you to create multiple instance of a single template that when this field becomes very useful.

Default

If the multilingual functionality is not implemented, please limit your choice between No and All. This template style will be defined as the global default template style. If the System - Language Filter plugin is enabled and you use different template styles depending on your content languages please assign a language to this style.

Template

This is the name of the template folder located at root/templates.

Version

This section tells you the installed version of the respective template and VP Framework. If any new update is available it also inform you the same.

File Verification

The file verification feature helps you to easily keep track of all modified theme files. It tells you exactly which template files have been modified or deleted or added, even a few weeks or months later when you might have forgotten that you have changed something somewhere. To prevent modified files when using FTP, make sure the transfer mode is set to binary.