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ROCKETTHEME IS CLOSING JUNE 30, 2025
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- Dr Oliver Brock
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I am really sad and also dont know what to do now!
I´m just a user who dug himself into creating a few website with RT and Gantry... and needed some help here and there without deeper knowledge of html etc.
So now everthing including the support will be shut down soon and I really have a problem now for the future... which of these following options would be working best for me:
- stay with RT and Gantry as long as it runs (never knowing any future incompatibility with Joomla or PHP versions)
- stay with Joomla without Gantry, but try to convert my pages to another theme supplier (which one might be the most stable regarding the future???)
- move to WP (and having to get accustomed to a completely new CMS and having to convert three live sites to WP with also the question which theme suppliers might be longer on the market)
I guess I am not the only one with that problem and I am really shattered by the announcement of the RT closing.
Oliver - Last Edit: 1 day 18 hours ago by Dr Oliver Brock.
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- Quenda
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Hi.
I have almost the same problem. My 30+ websites are based on Gantry and RT templates. In the next weeks I will inform my clients about the situation. Without RT support every Joomla/PHP update will be a risk I cannot afford.
At this moment I am evaluating other template delelopers and Frameworks: SP Page Builder, YOOTHEME Pro and Balbooa Gridbox. Unfortunately I will have to spend a lot of money and time to learn how to do the things I do with Gantry now. Either way it's a bad situation.
Ettore
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- beamaria
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At a second thought, I've renewed my membership and downloaded all the templates, hoping that someone will pick up Gantry 5 development... My only request is: is it possible to create a repository with the documentation for all the themes/templates?
It could be useful for implementing new websites. Thanks a lot for your time!
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- Roger Clarke
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Dr Oliver Brock wrote:
I am really sad and also dont know what to do now!There will be lots of people in this situation, me included.
I´m just a user who dug himself into creating a few website with RT and Gantry... and needed some help here and there without deeper knowledge of html etc.
So now everthing including the support will be shut down soon and I really have a problem now for the future... which of these following options would be working best for me:
- stay with RT and Gantry as long as it runs (never knowing any future incompatibility with Joomla or PHP versions)
- stay with Joomla without Gantry, but try to convert my pages to another theme supplier (which one might be the most stable regarding the future???)
- move to WP (and having to get accustomed to a completely new CMS and having to convert three live sites to WP with also the question which theme suppliers might be longer on the market)
I guess I am not the only one with that problem and I am really shattered by the announcement of the RT closing.
Oliver
I think worth keeping a cool head for now - Joomla 5 has over 2 years before it is out of support and php 8.2 until end of 2026. So at least 18 months before things should become an issue. Long before then it should become clear if Gantry has a future - if it does then hopefully all good for now, although presumably the templates themselves may have issues with php8.3 / Joomla 6.
Moving to WP would make no sense to me - why throw away the whole website because the display layer needs replacing? I've built a website on WP and it was / is a total nightmare in comparison. Sure WP folk will say the opposite, but moving to WP seems like a big overreaction.
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- Karen Laksamana
- Rocketeer
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- I'm in the same boat. I have 25 Gantry-based sites. 10 are using Rockettheme templates and the rest from Inspiretheme. I'm still hoping someone will take over Gantry so I can at least salvage all the Inspiretheme sites, because Ivo says he'll keep his business running as long as Gantry exists. I've been looking at RSJoomla's themes. Along with their RSPageBuilder componenent installed, I think it looks very familiar for someone used to working with Gantry. I haven't played around it yet beyond looking at the back-end install. That may be the most promising pivot for me for clients who don't have a budget for a complete overhaul. For ones who may decide to rebuild from the ground up, I've been meaning to explore YooTheme. (Unfortunately, I'm not anticipating many will since several of them just shelled out redesign costs when their previous template was no longer compatible with Joomla 5).
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