-
Using Pockets & Widgets to Enhance your Theme
Widgets (formerly known as “Modules”) allow you to easily add pre-built features to different parts of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) site. Widgets are great for: customizing your layouts and pulling dynamic content into a page. This article provides an overview of all Vanilla widgets so that you can quickly determine…
-
Theme Editor Overview
Foundation is the latest theme in Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla), and our recommendation as the best option when creating a new theme or for updating an existing theme. The new Theme Editor makes it easy to create and modify custom theme templates so that your community and knowledge base can match your unique brand.…
-
How to Move a Sunset Theme to Foundation
The Foundation theming system is Higher Logic Vanilla's (Vanilla) best and most flexible way of theming your community. Here are a few benefits to switching to Foundation: With Foundation's intuitive Theme Editor, customizing your community is easier than ever. You have access to Vanilla's latest features as we implement…
-
Style Guide Overview
The Style Guide is the behind-the-scenes tool that maintains the look of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community and knowledge bases. It is a "template" that houses your organization's unique style settings: your font, colors, backgrounds, and other styling elements, by using a set of configurable variables. NOTE: In…
-
Leaderboard Widget
The Leaderboard widget is a great way to showcase the top contributors in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. These are the users who have earned the most activity-based points during a selected time period (daily, weekly, and monthly) as well as your all-time point earners! ✔️ TIP: This widget is a good tool…
-
Create a Custom Layout
In this article, you'll learn the fundamentals of the Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) Layout Editor to obtain the skills necessary to create custom layouts. ✔️ TIP: You can copy your custom layouts to effortlessly replicate and tweak them, saving you time and effort when trying to create a consistent look or experiment with…
-
Customize a Sunset Theme
This article pertains to Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) sunset themes. 📝 NOTE: Vanilla recommends switching to our new Foundation theme. Learn how to migrate your sunset theme to Foundation. Vanilla’s older base theme HTML can be modified and CSS can be overridden. In order to modify a Vanilla theme, you must possess good…
-
Sunsetted Themes
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) has sunsetted all legacy themes in favour of Foundation. Foundation is: faster, more SEO friendly, easier to customize without developer resources, more suited to "accessibility" requirements, and more mobile-friendly than legacy themes. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: Many features of Vanilla are compatible…
-
Theme Elements Overview
A theme comprises several customizable elements. You can configure these theme elements individually in order to design and manage the appearance of your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community pages. Manage a theme You can edit a theme's elements in the Theme Editor, which is accessible in the Dashboard. Sunset themes:…
-
Apply Legacy & Custom Layouts
In this article, you'll learn how to apply legacy layouts (think of these as default layouts) and custom layouts to one or more of your community pages. Currently, you can apply layouts to the following areas of your community: Home Page - your community's "landing page." Here, your users are welcomed to your community, so…