Moodle and Web 2.0

Essential Theme for Moodle – the most versatile and acclaimed free Moodle theme in recent years, is updated to a new version compatible with Moodle 3.3. Essential is among the most downloaded Moodle themes ever and still maintains its popularity. In the last 3 months, Essential theme is downloaded more than 60k times from the Moodle plugins directory (Moodle Stats).

Since its release, Essential is among the top 3 table topper Moodle plugins in terms of usage, downloads and features. The first version of the theme was developed by Julian Ridden for Moodle 2.5 and afterwards it is being maintained actively by Gareth J Barnard through crowdfunding.

Recently, Gareth released the updated stable version of the Essential theme compatible with Moodle 3.3.

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About 6 months ago we successfully raised the funds to help Gareth update Essential to 3.0. This past weekend we put together our latest community funding at MoodleGarage to raise the funds necessary for its update to 3.1. Gareth and I had our site ready, had QA’d the text and…

6 minutes after posting to the thread at Moodle.org the project was funded 100%.

This goes down as the fastest community funding for a Moodle project that I’ve heard of, certainly it is a MoodleGarage record. While funded, Gareth and I have decided to leave it open ended in the case you want to donate to Gareth for future development (or just as a tip!).

So what was the focus of this project? This project was reverting Essential back to Bootstrapbase which will make it easier to work with as an open source Moodle theme. Additionally,

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