Hi Donald,

If you are going to create custom pages you will almost certainly only want to use templates. That being said, you can map specific templates and themes to specific communities.

If you log into the Admin Console and Navigate to System -> Settings -> Themes you will be able to create custom themes. For each custom theme use the "Custom Theme Maps" tool to map a specific theme to a specific community. Please let me know if this is what you were looking for. Thanks!

-Todd

Hi Donald,

If you want to customize the look of the root community only you can do this by editing the main.ftl as part of the templates. This will get applied to only the root community, all sub communities use a different template. With this template you can control every aspect of the page, so If I am still misunderstanding what you are trying to do here please let me know. Thanks!

-Todd

Hi Donald,

To make sure that your changes display immediately, you will want to set this system property:

jive.freemarker.templateUpdateDelay = 1

If you map a theme to a sub space, the same rules still apply as if it were applied to a root space. So for example, mapping to a sub space you will want to edit community.ftl (I believe) to make any changes. Thanks!

-Todd

Hi Donald,

You are correct, there is no easy way to edit a space only and have it not affect sub-spaces. However, if you apply a custom theme map to each sub-space you can override the fact that the parent space changes all sub-spaces (if that makes sense). So basically, set a theme map for your Space (this will cascade to all subspaces), then in each subspace map to another custom theme (this will override the parent Space). Thanks!

-Todd

Hi Donald,

I am happy to hear that you found that Widget. I was actually going to pass that plugin along to you but I got overloaded with work. Please let me know if you need anything else. Thanks!