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title: Export a Customized Experience Builder Theme for a Lightning Bolt Solution
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description: Export themes that you’ve customized and use them in your own Experience Builder sites, or package and distribute them for others to use.
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# Export a Customized Experience Builder Theme for a Lightning Bolt Solution

Export themes that you’ve customized and use them in your own Experience Builder sites, or package and distribute them for others to use.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small permission">
        <colgroup>
          <col style="width:50%">
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        <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
          <tr class="">
            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d76390e70">User Permissions
              Needed</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">To create an Experience Cloud site:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">To customize or publish an Experience Cloud site:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">
              <ul>
                <li>Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration AND be a member
                  of the site<p>OR</p>
                </li>

                <li>View Setup and Configuration AND be a member of the site AND have appropriate
                  <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_access_control_overview.htm&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">role-based site access</a>
                </li>

              </ul>
            </td>

          </tr>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">To create a Lightning Experience Builder template, theme, or page:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">Customize Application AND Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and
              Configuration</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">To create a Lightning Bolt Solution:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76390e70 ">Customize Application AND View Setup and Configuration</td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_note.png)

Note If your customized theme isn’t based on the latest template version, you can’t export it until you [update the template](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.communities_update_template.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "We introduce amazing features and enhancements with every release, so it pays to keep your Experience Builder site up to date! Typically, we automatically update your template to the latest version, so you can start adding the newest features to your site right away. However, when the changes are significant, you’re required to update your template manually.").

1. In Experience Builder, change to the theme you want to export if that isn’t your active theme.
    
    ![Builder Theme settings with Change Theme highlighted](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_theme_panel_change.png)
2. Select **Settings** | **Developer**, and click **Export a Theme**.
    
    ![The Developer area](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_export5.png)
3. Fill in the form with the needed elements for the Change Theme detail page. Clear information and images help you and others understand what is in the theme and how it works.
    
    ![Change Theme detail page of Cypress theme](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_changetheme-description.png)
4. Click **Export**.
    
    After you export a theme, it appears in the Change Theme dialog box in all the Experience Builder sites in your org. If you package the theme and install it in another org, it appears in that org’s Change Theme dialog box. Themes are ordered by how new they are, so a newly imported theme appears at the beginning of the list.
    
    ![Change theme list](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_change_theme_themeslist.png)
5. To distribute your theme, create a managed package. Or add the theme to a Lightning Bolt Solution, and include it in the package.

To delete an imported or exported theme, from Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the Quick Find box, and click **Themes**.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_note.png)

Note If an Experience Builder site in your org is using the theme, you can’t delete the theme until you switch to a different one.