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Theming Overview
Introduction Foundation and the Theme Editor were introduced with the goal of allowing you and your teams to easily customize your site to give your community and knowledge bases a look and feel that showcases your brand. Foundation has been built to ensure that your theme remains accessible, mobile friendly and compatible…
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How to Move a Legacy 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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Enable the Layout Editor
The Layout Editor is not enabled by default, and must be enabled manually via our Vanilla Labs feature. Let's learn how. Access the Dashboard. Navigate to Settings > Addons > Labs. Locate the Layout Editor feature and click to toggle it ON. 🛑 IMPORTANT: If you have a custom layout applied, you will not be able to disable…
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Legacy Themes Sunsetting
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) has decided to sunset a number of its "legacy" themes as we encourage customers to start using the recently released Foundation theme. Sunset Timeline Our product-development plan calls for these legacy themes to be sunset in late-2022: 📝 NOTE: A comprehensive list of the current stage in the…
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Customize a Legacy Theme
This article pertains to Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) Legacy themes. 📝 NOTE: Vanilla recommends switching to our new Foundation theme. Learn how to migrate your Legacy theme to Foundation. Vanilla’s legacy 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. What is the Layout Editor? The Layout Editor enables Administrators to create custom page layouts they can apply to various pages across their Vanilla community. The…
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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. Legacy themes:…