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Content Banner
The Content Banner is an optional component of the Foundation theme. Once enabled, it will display on pages that contain content, such as community posts (including discussions, ideas, questions, polls, and events) and knowledge base articles. 📝 NOTE: To learn more about the main "site" banner that appears on the Home…
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New Post Menu
On the front end of your Higher Logic Vanilla community, the New Post menu makes it easy for users to contribute content. The discussion types available in the menu will depend on what is enabled in your community. 📝 NOTE: This menu is automatically available for communities using our Foundation theme. The menu displays…
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How can I Customize my Style Guide?
Vanilla’s Foundation style guide can be customized using: Theme Editor Layout Editor Theme variables You can make additional enhancements with Pockets and Widgets. How do Pockets work with themes? Pockets will still work in the community, but are not currently supported in the Knowledge Base. It's not recommended to use…
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Foundation Theme Header & Footer
📝 NOTE: Many communities use the out-of-the-box Title Bar as their header, and don't need to use Vanilla's optional Theme header element. However, if you'd like to use a custom header and footer to match your organization's main website, you can add the same HTML and CSS that you use there to your community, or get…
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Add a Custom Font to a Foundation-based Header/Footer
Vanilla's theming system does not support adding a custom font to your header or footer if the font is different than the custom font used in your theme. If you try to add an @import statement to your custom CSS file, you'll notice it doesn't work; this is because we use a technology called the Shadow DOM to make sure that…
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Set Different Themes per Subcommunity
If you use subcommunities in your Higher Logic Vanilla community and want each one to have its own unique look, you can give each subcommunity its own theme. ✔️ TIP: If your subcommunity themes will simply be variations of your main community theme, use it as the template from which to easily build them. For help on…
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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…