The section will help you with steps to install the JA Purity IV quickstart or manual installation.

• Quickstart installation: Replicate Template demo to your server.
• Manual installation: install template, plugin manually on your Joomla site

System requirement

Please make sure your system meets the following requirements:

Download packages

JA Purity IV download section includes the following files:

• Quickstart package for Joomla 4
• JA Purity IV template
• T4 Framework plugin
• JA ACM Module
• JA Extension manager component

Quickstart installation

Quickstart installation allows you to replicate the demo site to your server with all extensions installed and demo content

Quickstart installation guide

Manual Installation

Installing the JA Purity IV, T4 framework, and other extensions on your existing Joomla website.

From your back-end setting panel, go to: "Extensions > Extension Manager", browse the extension installation files then hit the "Upload and Install"

• T4 Framework plugin
• JA Purity IV template
• JA ACM module
• JA Extension manager component

By default, the T4 plugin will be auto-enabled after installation. You can check this by going to "Extensions > Plugin Manager" then find T4 Plugin.

Set JA Purity IV as default template style

Joomla 3: Go to: "Extensions > Template Manager", set JA Purity IV template style as your default template style.

Joomla 4: Go to: "System > Site Template Styles", set JA Purity IV template style as your default template style.

Template folder structure

This section is to help you understand the folder structure of the JA Purity IV template, where to find the files you want.

JA Purity IV template

JA Purity IV template is built on the T4 Framework so its folder structure is almost the same as any other JA Templates that are developed with T4 Framework.

/templates/ja_purity_iv/
	+-- scss/                 /*  all SCSS files */ 
	+--     scss/tpl                 /*  theme tpl SCSS files */ 
	¦    +--  _acm.scss
	¦    +--  _all.scss
	¦    +--  _offcanvas.scss
	¦    +--  _styles.scss
	¦    +--  _type.scss
	¦    +--  _utilities.scss
	¦    +--  _variables.scss
	¦    +--  _vars.scss
	¦    +--  jpages.scss
	¦    +--  rtl.scss
	¦    +--  template.scss
	¦    +--  bootstrap.scss
	¦    +--  _components.scss
	¦    +--  _forms.scss
	¦    +--  _global.scss
	¦    +--  _joomla.scss
	¦    +--  _megamenu.scss
	¦    +--  _modules.scss
	¦    +--  _navigations.scss
	+-- scss/tpls 
	+-- css/                     /*compiled files from SCSS*/
	¦    +-- template.css
	¦    +-- rtl.css
	¦    +-- acm.css
	¦    +-- jpages.css
	¦    +-- off-canvas.css/
	¦    +-- offline.css/
	+-- html/               /*override modules and Joomla com_content*/
	¦    +-- com_content/
	¦    ¦    +-- article/
	¦    ¦    +-- category/
	¦    ¦    +-- featured/
	¦    +-- com_contact/
	¦    ¦    +-- contact/
	¦    +-- mod_articles_categories/
	¦    +-- mod_articles_category
	¦    +-- layouts/
	¦    +-- ...
	+-- fonts/ 
	+-- js/ 
	¦    +--owl-carousel/
	¦    +--html5lightbox/
	¦    +-- bootstrap.bundle.js
	¦    +-- template.js
	¦    +-- imagesloaded.pkgd.js
	¦    +-- isotope.pkgd.js
	+-- images/
	+-- language/
	+-- templateDetails.xml  
	+-- templateInfo.php/
	+-- templateHook.php/
	

CSS and SCSS customization

Any customization is not recommended in the t4 plugin.

To customize your site style, you can use either CSS or SCSS customization tool.

More details

1. Layout configuration

JA Purity IV supports different layouts by default and you can create more layouts using layout builder.

Assign Layout for a template style

To assign a layout for a JA Purity IV template style, open the template style » Layout setting panel » and assign a layout for the template style.

Set sub-layout

The sub layout is used for child pages. For example, if the Category page is assigned to the main layout, the article detail page is the child page of the Category page, and it will be using the sub-layout, in case the setting is active.

To configure the sub-layout, in the layout setting panel, scroll down and you will find the Sub Layout setting, assign a layout and save the layout setting.

Supported layouts:

• default layout
• business layout
• corporate layout
• landing layout
• logistics layout
• product layout
• magazine layout

Note: You can create multiple template styles with different layouts assigned. Then assign each template style to specific pages.

Layout builder detail docs

2. Dark theme settings

JA Purity IV supports dark theme and theme switcher that allows to change theme color in front-end.

To enable, disable theme switcher and set the default theme, access the JA Purity IV template style, in the Site settings > Other settings, you will see 2 settings:

• Dark mode toggle: to enable the theme switcher in front-end
• Default color theme: to set the default theme color for the template style profile.

3. Site settings

Logo settings

The Logo settings are present under Site configuration > Logo Settings.

For the logo, you can select to use an image logo or text logo. You can also select the different logos for mobile view.

Typography settings

The typography includes the global settings for font family, font weight, and line height.

You can enable the custom font setting for heading and navigation (menu).

Local font supported: due to the GDPR issue, you can disable Google font, and use the local font that is already supported at core.

Other settings:

• Page: set page backgroud image and background style attributes
• Author Settings: show, hide the author block and link for the author
• Favicon setting: add custom favicon

Site setting detailed docs

4. Navigation configuration

JA Festival supports Megamenu for Desktop layout and dropdown or Off-canvas for Mobile layout.

Megamenu setting

Go to Navigation > Megamenu, select a menu and configure the megamenu. You can build a mega menu with multiple rows, each row can include multiple columns. You can assign menu items, modules or a module position to each column.

Megamenu detailed docs

Off-canvas Menu setting

Enable Off-canvas (it is enabled by default), select module position, module style and other options.

Next, create a menu module, assign it to the position: off-canvas.

centercomics
• Module settings

5. Theme color settings

The theme color allows you to use the color picker to change color for brand colors, base colors, main menu colors, and footer colors.

You can view the changes in the website preview on the right panel.

6. Global settings

JA Purity IV template global settings include:

• T4 edit layout: this is the front-end editor (article, module) layout setting, you can select to use clean layout or full position layout
• CSS & JS optimization: JS and CSS optimization is the process of making your website smaller and faster to load by minifying the JS and CSS codes.
• Custom Code: You can insert any CSS, JS, meta tags, links, and verification codes using the custom code option. With multiple options to add custom to specific tags.
• Add-ons: includes settings to enable or disable font icons like Font Awesome, Iconmoon. When an Addon is disabled, its CSS and JS will not be loaded on your website, this is to help keep your site clean and load faster.
• Open Graph:

Detailed docs

7. CSS & SCSS editor tool

Customizing style for your site is even simpler with the inbuilt custom CSS Editor. In the Tools panel, hit the Edit Custom CSS button and you can add your own custom CSS rules to the editor.

You can override the default variables in the Variables customization editor, as well as the adding custom SCSS.

Detailed docs

Home - Business

Step 1 - Create menu item

Go to Menu » Main menu, add a new menu item, select Articles » Featured Article menu type, or single article menu type.

Step 2 - Assign content to the Home page

The home page includes multiple sections, each section is a module.

business layout structure

1. [Business] Slideshow: JA ACM Module

Hero : style-1

Module position: slideshow
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

2. [Business] Features: JA ACM Module

Features Intro : style-2

Module position: section-1
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

3. [Business] Feature 3: JA ACM Module

Features Intro : style-3

Module position: section-2
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

4. A perfect starting point: JA ACM Module

Team : style-1

Module position: section-3
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

5. Customer Testimonials: JA ACM Module

Testimonials : style-1

Module position: section-4
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

6. From our blog: Articles - Category Module

Module position: section-5
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: grid-layout-3cols

• Module settings
• Filtering settings
• Display settings
• Advanced settings
• Extra field settings

7. Our clients: JA ACM Module

Our Clients : style-1

Module position: section-6
Module Suffix: NOT USED
Layout: Default

• Module settings
• Extra field settings

Category blog / article

Category blog page

The template supports 7 layouts for category blog to display your articles flexibily.

Create category blog page

#1. Create Articles » Category Blog menu.

#2. Assign category blog layout

You can additionally configure the layouts such as column, show/hide article content elements and more.

Article layouts

JA Purity IV supports 4 layouts to present your article content.

Configure the article layout for your site.

#1. Global setting: all articles in your site will be using the layout.

Go to System > Global configuration then select Articles.

In the Articles setting, select the layout and save.

#2. Category blog menu: all articles of the menu item will use the layout

#3. Article setting

In the article editing page, open the Options tab and assign layout for the article.

The best method to upgrade JoomlArt products is using JA Extension Manager. The FREE extension brings a new way to manage extensions: upgrade, rollback, remote install, internal repository, compare versions, and more.

1. Set up JA Extension Manager Component

Download this free extension from this link. Install the extension to your website.

Go to Components > JA Extension Manager then selects Service Manager, now set JoomlArt as your default service. Next, hit the "Edit" button then add your account.

2. Upgrade JA Purity IV template

Check the new version of the JA Purity IV template. Use the filter to find the JA Seven template then hit the "Check Update" button.

3. Upgrade T4 Framework and other JA extensions

Using the filter to find the extensions you want to upgrade (JoomlArt products only), hit the "Check Update" button to check for a new version then hit Upgrade Now to upgrade the extension to the latest version.

Check out more details about JA Extension manager