Themes

Owned by Johannes Laatu (Deactivated)
Last updated: Dec 16, 2023 by Madzy Soetman
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Themes determine the look of your sites. Choose a pre-set theme, or apply your organisation’s branding by building your own custom theme. By applying different themes to each of your sites, a knowledge base and an intranet can have different looks. You can also create themes for special occasions, like a holiday theme that you temporarily add to your intranet.

See an overview of your themes

Go to the theme overview to see all themes in your instance:

  1. Head to the Refined Administration.

  2. Click the Themes tab.

Active themes are marked with a green label. Hovering or clicking the label will show you where the theme is applied in the Site Builder.

Create and edit a theme

In the theme overview, click Create theme to start a theme from scratch. You can also create a new theme based on an existing theme, by copying it and editing the copy. To edit a theme, click on the theme’s Cogwheel > Edit.

You are now in the Theme Editor, where you can customise the site’s main appearance, header, navigation menu, site home, spaces, sidebar, and keyboard navigation.

Apply a global theme

The global theme applies to all sites, unless specified otherwise in a site’s settings.

  1. Go to the Refined Administration.

  2. Go to the Configuration tab.

  3. Go to General > Default theme > Change button.

Apply a site-specific theme

The site theme applies to all categories within the site, unless specified otherwise in a categories' settings.

  1. Go to the Refined Administration.

  2. Go to the Site Builder tab.

  3. Go to your site of choice > Default theme > Change button.

Apply a category-specific theme

The category theme applies to all spaces within the category, unless specified otherwise in a space’s settings.

  1. Go to the Refined Administration.

  2. Go to the Site Builder tab.

  3. Click the category’s Cogwheel > Edit category.

  4. Go to Theme and click the Change button.

Export/import a theme

You can export a theme and import it into another Refined instance (or your current Refined instance).

To export a theme, go to the theme overview and click the theme’s Cogwheel > Export.
To import a theme, go to the theme overview and click the Import Theme button.

Use Refined only on specific sites and spaces

Read this guide.