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The Most Useless Element Ever

Add some Nothingness to your website

Latest release
10 June 2026

Version
v0.1.2

Changelog
See full changelog
v3.3.2 Breaking
Fixed
  • Ribbon labels never appeared unless the grid used spotlight in "above" mode
v3.3.1 Breaking
Changed
  • Ribbon tag-to-label map now accepts custom labels, not just the five presets.
v3.3.0 Breaking
Added
  • Ribbon labels on grid cards. A coloured label can be shown per card with five
  • Four positions, element-wide: corner top-left, corner top-right, side ribbon
  • Source coverage: manual cards (per-card label fields), ZOO and Joomla items
  • The label sits on the highest z-index (above the thumbnail, favourite heart
Changed
  • Test build for UI validation on a live site before final hand-off.
v3.0.8 Breaking
Security
  • SEC-2 (MEDIUM): added an SSRF guard (src/Http/YcUrlGuard) for the
  • SEC-4 (MEDIUM): com_ajax write actions (toggle, rating_set) now require a
v3.0.7 Breaking
Security
  • SEC-1 (HIGH): removed the insecure TLS retry fallback in the RSS / full-article
  • SEC-3 (MEDIUM): all @unserialize() calls now pass
v3.0.6 Breaking
Changed
  • Data tab / Manual items: the MANUAL ITEMS pointer now renders as one
v3.0.5 Breaking
Added
  • Data tab: choosing "Manual items" now shows a MANUAL ITEMS pointer
Fixed
  • ZOO extras / related links: the RSS feed URL coming from a ZOO text or
  • Media: stopping a playing YouTube card (e.g. by opening Spotify on
  • Media: stop logic now scopes from the clicked element instead of a
v3.0.4 Breaking
Added
  • The 26 user-facing UI strings that zoo-builder.js injects into the
Changed
  • The placeholder DETECTION constants in zoo-builder.js are deliberately
v3.0.3 Breaking
Added
  • Small-smartphone CSS tier (max-width 420px) for the Smart Grid and RSS
  • Touch-device tap targets per YC 7F (scoped to pointer:coarse, desktop
  • NOTICE.txt: manual data-subject request procedure (GDPR art. 15/17
Changed
  • The six v2.x console.log diagnostics in the frontend templates only
v3.0.2 Breaking
Added
  • de-DE / fr-FR / es-ES / it-IT machine-translation baselines for all 458
Demo page

One element. Four content sources. Eight social
platforms. Endless smug satisfaction.

Smart Grid is a YOOtheme Pro builder element that turns any page into a beautifully cohesive feed of cards— from your manually curated picks, your Joomla articles, your ZOO items, or the eight biggest social platforms on the internet. It pulls, it styles, it filters, it sorts, it favourites, it remembers, it embeds players, it animates spotlight cards, it does so many things we had to write this manual just to fit them all on the box.

Comes with settings such as
Nothing Cache TTL (slider, 0-3600 sec): how long nothing is cached. Fresh nothing and cached nothing are not too distinguishable.

GDPR Consent for nothing (checkbox): requesting visitors consent before nothing happens. Legally redundant, from a legal perspective beautiful.

Nothing Schedule (select: always / office hours only / night only): when nothing is active. Outside of scheduled events, there is also nothing.

Fallback Nothing (select): what is shown if nothing does not load. Options: nothing, nothing, rien, nada.

A/B test the Nothing (checkbox): shows variant A (nothing) to 50% of visitors and variant B (nothing) to 50%. Results so far not significant. Nothing Intensity (range 1-11): goes up to 11.

Synchronize nothing between devices (checkbox): your nothing on desktop, tablet, and phone identical. Has worked flawlessly since version 0.0.1.

Premium Nothing (checkbox, disabled): greyed out with description "Available in Nothium Pro. It does the same, but costs more."