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The long awaited update for Guru Pro is finally here - Guru version 6.0.0 beta. This major update is not only for Joomla 4 support but also adding new features and improvements.

Guru Pro is the best Joomla LMS! creates an online course, university or school and helps generate revenue. The Joomla LMS extension is easy to set up and manage, rich-featured and beautiful responsive design for all pages.

Joomla lms extension for Joomla 4

The new version includes the following major updates:

  • Joomla 4 compatibility
  • Fully PHP8 support
  • Improved design for all pages
  • New course list view - List view
  • New course detail view - Modern view
  • Lesson layout with dark and light theme
  • Back-end dashboard improvements
  • And more

Note:

We recommend not to use the Beta version for production.


Joomla 4 ready

Build and upgrade your online course website on the latest Joomla 4 version.

Joomla lms extension for Joomla 4

Joomla! 4 is the latest major release of Joomla! CMS and this will be Long Term Support (LTS) version. Joomla 4 brings a huge upgrade to the CMS, amazing new features, raises the minimum supported PHP version to PHP 7.2.5, as well as removes previously deprecated functionality. Joomla 4 also comes with a completely new admin interface and new front-end template.

Guru 6.0.0 is ready for Joomla 4

Joomla lms extension for Joomla 4

Extensions included in the update:

  • Guru Pro component
  • Guru modules: Guru Category & Guru Courses
  • Guru payment gateways plugins are tested with the upgrade

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Tons of improvements

New course list view, course detail view, lesson dark & light theme and many more

Joomla lms extension for Joomla 4

1. Course list: Improved grid layout & new list view

Better grid view layout to present the courses in a well structured and beautiful layout.

Joomla lms course list grid view

New amazing list view

Joomla lms course list view

To configure the course list layout, in the Guru setting page > Layouts > List of Courses > then configure the layouts

Joomla lms course list view setting

2. Course detail: Improved default layout & new modern view

New Modern view

Joomla lms course detail view

Improved Default view

Joomla lms course detail view

To configure the course detail view, in the Guru setting page > Layouts > Course page > Course Page Layout in the Others section.

Joomla lms course setting

3. New Lesson view layout with light and dark theme

Give your student better learning experience with the new lesson view with configurable light or dark theme.

Joomla lms lession theme

Configuration: in the Guru setting page > Layouts > Course page > set dark or light theme in the Lesson Modal Style field.

4. Other pages design improvement

Teacher profile layout

Joomla lms teacher view

Teacher dashboard views

Joomla lms teacher dashboard

Student dashboard pages

Joomla lms course list view

Category list page

Joomla lms course category list

Responsive improvements

responsive Joomla lms extension

New layouts and improved style for Guru modules

Guru Pro supports 2 modules to show course categories list and course list: by new or by popular. For the course listing module, we improved the style, and supports 2 layouts: list and grid.

Joomla lms course list module

5. Back-end improvements

Guru Back-end Dashboard is improved for better working experience.

Joomla lms extension Guru pro back-end improvement

PHP8 Support

Guru Pro 6.0.0 is updated to fully compatible with PHP8.

PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.

Make your online LMS website faster, more secured with PHP8.

Joomla lms guru pro supports Php8


Stable release

Guru Pro 6.0.0 stable version will be coming soon, here are the list of tasks:

1. Pro templates:

Guru Pro works with all Joomla templates, in the demo site and quickstart package, we are using T4 Blank template.

We also built 2 dedicated templates for Guru Pro - JA Sensei and JA Educatsy with unique and beautiful design. The Pro templates will be free for Guru Pro users with quickstart packages for Joomla 4 and Joomla 3.

2. New feature, improvements and bug fixes

  • More testing is required before the stable release.
  • Coding review
  • Payment gateways plugins review
  • More improvements
  • New feature: Social sharing integration with Open Graph

Download and installation

We recommend not to use the Beta version for production.

For the beta version, we release quickstart package only, so you can have better demo content, and ready Guru setup for checking the features easier.

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