The Wright Framework is a major upgrade and outstanding value added to our Joomla Templates and the websites built upon it. The name is in honor of the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright and his minimalist style. In a Joomla Template, the Wright Framework is like a combination of a foundation and a blank blueprint. A solid and versatile foundation to build upon, and a blank and empty blueprint upon which the web designer can create his or her masterpiece.
The Wright Framework also makes upgrading to new versions of Joomla something quick and easy. Joomla 2.5 was released January 24th, and by 1pm on that same day, Joomlashack had been able to update 25+ Joomla Templates to Joomla 2.5. To the web designer, this means less headaches and easier support for his clients.
The Wright framework is Versatile, Nimble, and Reliable. Unlike so many Joomla Template Frameworks out there which are loaded with everything but the kitchen sink, the Wright Framework is designed to be light so that it makes your sites load quickly. Proof of this is that the Wright Framework is between 1/8 and 1/3 the size of other frameworks. The end result is a great tool that is being integrated into all of Joomlashack’s Joomla Templates, providing many benefits to you, our customers.
Other Joomla Template Frameworks have taken what we believe to be the wrong approach to frameworks. They have integrated tons of unnecessary features that have made their frameworks bloated, fat, and slow. All these unnecessary features have also made their frameworks unreliable. There is simply a lot more stuff to go wrong in them and more stuff to update with each new Joomla release. To the web designer, all these features rarely contribute to the design process – – they are more of a restrain.
We believe that the framework should be minimalistic – – it should have the bare minimum to load and function. For example, we went through the framework’s code over and over again removing unnecessary lines. Wright does provide a foundation of standard features, but more importantly, it makes it incredibly easy to add additional features. Namely, the ones you need and want.
The framework is part of the template. In its most basic form, it extends the default template capabilities of Joomla with some additional features. A more advanced description is that the framework loads the template before Joomla and applies several filters upon it to allow more advanced customization from the administrator, as well as to provide support for things like css combining and caching.
