Templates
Save and reuse a template
Turn a finished website into a template, for this workspace, an organisation, or sale.
- 2 minute read
- 2 interactive walkthroughs
- For people building more than one website
Saving a website as a template#
Save as template lives in the website menu. It takes the whole site, pages, sections, theme and wording, and stores it as a template you can start from again. Give it a name and a sentence on what it is for; the sentence is what future-you reads when choosing one.
Visibility decides who gets it: only this workspace, your organisation's client workspaces, or, where the workspace is part of an organisation, both.
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Save as a template
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From the website menu
Save as template takes the whole site: pages, sections, theme and wording.
Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.
- 1Open the website menu and choose Save as template.
- 2Name it after the work it suits, not after the client it came from.
- 3Choose who can use it and save.
Starting from your template#
Your templates appear beside the starters when a new website is created, under a tab of their own. Starting from one copies it, exactly like a starter: the original template is never edited by the website that grows from it.
Templates can be managed from the Templates page: renamed, re-described, re-filed, and their visibility changed as an arrangement with a client changes.
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Under its own tab
Your templates sit beside the starters when a new website is created.
Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.
Good to know: A template's wording usually carries the original business name. Replace it early, while it is still obvious, rather than at the end when the eye has stopped seeing it.
Selling your own#
A template can also be sold: set a price, connect a payment account once, and it is offered to others who want the same starting point. Prices, payouts and the simple sales list live on the Templates page.
If that is interesting but not today, the feature waits; nothing about saving templates for personal use involves payment settings.
Before you continue: Never put a client's confidential content into a template without written permission, even a private one. Templates are shared copies by design.
Common questions
Does saving a template affect the website it came from?
No. The template is a copy; the website carries on untouched.
Can a colleague in another working group use my template?
Through organisation templates, if you share it to the organisation. Otherwise it stays in your workspace.
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