cPanel 11 Documentation
Branding: Overview
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The Branding Editor allows you to edit many different aspects of the presentation of cPanel to your users. The best method is to create a new style and then edit it. It is recommended that you follow these steps so that you have a non-edited style to fallback to just incase something goes wrong with your new style.
Official cPanel Styles
cPanel installs with some of it's own styles by default. Editing of the "Official cPanel Styles" on the server should always be avoided. Each time you perform an update of cPanel to the newest version, your changes will be overwritten and lost. The "Official cPanel Styles" are distributed with each new version and written to your server with each update.
Available Branding Styles
Any installed styles (whether an "Official cPanel Style" or a custom style) are listed for use on the "Branding Editor" page. The default style is [root] and will always be used if no other style is chosen.
Each installed style can have a custom thumbnail shown depicting it, however if you do not supply a thumbnail or the thumbnail is missing a default thumbnail will be used instead, thus showing a thumbnail that might not look like the actual theme in question.
Style Options
Each style has several available options that can be found in the "Available Branding Styles" list. They are as follows:
- Enable or disable style - Each style can be enabled or disabled by clicking in the checkbox below the name of the style.
- Apply to My Account - This will change the current style on your account. This will also change the style used by all of the sub-accounts under your main account.
- Apply to All Accounts - This will apply the style to all accounts already created. This will not set the default style to be used in the future for new accounts. You will still need to "Set Default for New Accounts" to apply this style for accounts created in the future.
- Set Default for New Accounts - This will set this style as the default for all new accounts created from this point on into the future. It will not set the default style for accounts that have been created in the past.
- Edit this Style – Allows the editing of the style. In the case of the "Official cPanel Styles", it will create a copy of the style for you to edit instead of letting you edit it directly.