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Themes
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Themes set the look and feel of your Concrete CMS site. Themes are presentation focused, and
control how your site's content is presented. Themes are a collection of files that include all the
HTML, CSS, images (and any other unique elements) needed to render your page in a web
browser.

Currently Installed
The Dashboard's Themes page lists all the themes currently installed on your site. Beside each
are several buttons that control options useful for managing the theme.

Activate
To apply a theme to your site, you must activate it. Only one theme can be🌐 Translate
activated at any
given time. The theme highlighted in blue is always the currently activated theme. In the
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example above, the active theme is Elemental. Click the "Activate" button to apply a different
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theme. The theme will be applied to every page in your site.

Installing custom themes

In addition to viewing a list of themes that are installed, we can also see a list of themes that are
present in your site's themes overrides folder, but not yet installed. These will appear below the
list of installed themes. (This is typcially how you'd install a custom theme that you or your
developers have created specifically for a site.) 

Click the Install button to install the theme. After you've done so, it's a good idea to check out
the newly installed theme and make sure any included page types are installed. You can do this
by clicking the theme's Inspect button (this will show up next to the theme once it's successfully
installed).

Note: themes downloaded from the concretecms.org Marketplace will not typically need to be
installed manually. Instead, they'll be installed automatically when you install the package from
Dashboard > Extend concrete. 

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Get more themes 

You can easily download new themes from the concretecms.org marketplace. Just click "Get
More Themes" and you'll be browsing new looks for your site in no time. You can purchase,
download and install stuff without ever leaving your Dashboard. You can even find many free
themes and add-ons, so be sure to check it out.

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