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With over 1000 organisations in 50+ countries now using Theme Builder, we've been able to get lots of feedback on what was good and not so good about earlier versions of the plugin. We've spent a lot of time looking at the most common tasks (such as using the same design for lots of spaces) and improved the functionality and usability of those tasks.

Centralised Theme Layouts

Previous versions of the plugin stored theme configurations (now known as "layouts") separately against each space. Customers who wanted to use the same (or similar) layout for multiple spaces had to constantly export and import configuration data to propagate settings to other spaces which is a real nightmare pain if you've got 20 15 or more spaces.

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In version 3, you define the layouts centrally and can then easily apply them to any number of spaces. Change the centrally defined layout and all the spaces using it instantly update!

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Permissions can be set on layouts to define who can select them - for example, you might only want people in the Sales department user group to be able to select the Sales layout. Likewise, you might want to prevent staff from using your company branding in their personal wikis and blogs.

Layout Manager

The Layout Manager is the new place to create your theme layouts. It replaces the old theme configuration screen with a new tabbed interface that makes it much easier to get at all the various features of the theme:

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Site Administrators can set privileges to define who can use the layout manager to tightly control editing of theme layouts.

Layout Hierarchy and Inheritance

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A child layout will, by default, inherit all the settings of it's parent layout but can also override any of them! those settings. This process is called Inheritance and you can see how it works in our tutorial on Layout Hierarchy.

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• Full clustering support!
• Default View and Edit menus are three times faster thanks to the new compound-menuitem macro
• Layouts can be changed at page level Page-level layouts - eg. if you want a specific layout just for the home page in a space
• Users can select a different layout User selected layouts - eg. choosing users can choose a more accessible layout to view your wiki or a mobile phone layout that's easier to use on their iPhone
• You can now create Sectional Navigation which changes based on your location within a Space
• Vastly improved colour picker - now integrated with the Confluence colour picker, new ways to choose colours, improved colour history and complimentary colours features
• Bigger text areas for things like panel wiki notation and CSS, many of which are now resizeable, when editing the configuration
• Improved caching to boost performance on huge wikis
• Vastly improved documentation and usability
• And lots, lots more...

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