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Theme Builder 3 represents about 9 months of effort by the boffins at Adaptavist and adds a vast array of features and enhancements requested by you, our clients.

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

Centralised Theme Layouts

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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.

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Another common request of our clients was to have the ability to define a general "look and feel" (eg. corporate branding) layout and then use it as the basis for other layouts. So we added a hierarchical nature to layouts:

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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! 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 menus are three times faster thanks to the new compound-menuitem macro
• Layouts can be changed at page level - eg. if you want a specific layout just for the home page in a space
• Users can select a different layout - eg. choosing a more accessible layout to view your wiki
• You can now create Sectional Navigation which changes based on your location within a Space
• Vastly improved colour picker
• Bigger text areas, many of which are now resizeable, when editing the configuration
• Improved caching to boost performance on huge wikis
• And lots, lots more...

We were originally going to release all these enhancements as version 2.1 but our beta testers were so impressed with the vast array of improvements that they demanded that we call in version 3!

Upgrading from Theme Builder 1.x

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