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Overview of Custom Page Layouts
Layout Editor enables you to create custom layouts that can be applied to various pages across your community. In this article, you'll learn: which pages across your community you can create custom layouts for, and the purpose and structure of each page layout available to you. This knowledge should help you more easily…
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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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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…
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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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Pockets
⚠️ IMPORTANT: Pockets, and their associated widgets, represent our classic design experience. For a more streamlined experience, with deeper layout customization and expanded widget capabilities, we recommend upgrading to our Layout Editor. 📝 NOTE: Pockets only display in legacy layouts, and will not function in Layout…
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Using Pockets & Widgets to Enhance your Theme
⚠️ IMPORTANT: Pockets, and their associated widgets, represent our classic design experience. For a more streamlined experience, with deeper layout customization and expanded widget capabilities, we recommend upgrading to our Layout Editor. 📝 NOTE: Pockets only display in legacy layouts, and will not function in Layout…
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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…
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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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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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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. Before we begin… Right out of the box, Vanilla's latest theme, Foundation, provides an excellent mobile experience,…