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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Themes to be Sunset
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) has decided to sunset a number of its older themes as we encourage customers to start using our most recent theme, Foundation. Sunset Timeline Our product-development plan calls for these older themes to be sunset in late-2022: 📝 NOTE: A comprehensive list of the current stage in the "life"…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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Enable and Configure the New Search Page
We have introduced a new Search service for Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) communities. To get the most from the new Search service, use the new Search page so that you can take advantage of these great features: Member Search Search Term Highlighting Search Sorting Places Search New Search service availability The new…
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Configure Global Styles
The Styles sections of the Theme Editor is further broken down into subsections, which can be accessed by clicking elements in the theme preview (the area to the left) or by using the navigation menu (highlighted below). For details on the other options, check out the articles below: Title Bar Banner Widgets ( to be…