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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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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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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:…
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Create and Edit Themes
In Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla), a theme is the primary factor that controls your community's aesthetic appearance. Vanilla offers three methods for creating and editing a theme: Theme Editor Theme API File-based Theme Method compatibility All Vanilla themes share the same basic structure. This means each of the options…
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Theme Variable Reference
This article documents the variables that can be used to customize your theme. Specify these variables in the Advanced Settings panel of the Theme Editor. To access the panel, click Advanced Settings, as shown below. (The button always displays, irrespective of which section is being customized.) The Advanced Settings…
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Accessibility in Your Vanilla Community
Accessibility involves making websites easier to use for persons with disabilities (such as vision and physical impairments). Accessibility laws require that a person with disabilities be able to use a website with software that reads aloud the site's content and/or using only a keyboard. Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) is…
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Manage Legacy Layouts
When setting up your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community, you can choose from a variety of layouts in order to control the appearance of your community pages. 📝 NOTE: In addition to these out-of-the-box legacy layouts, you can use the Layout Editor to build custom layouts for certain pages of your site using sections…