Community Builder: Where Everything Is Flexible, Customizable, and Reusable

Consulting partners and ISVs win the jackpot this release with custom theme layouts and packageable templates and pages. We’ve also given Community Builder an overhaul to provide a flexible workspace with even more room to work. Not only that—now you can access custom Lightning components on the AppExchange directly from Community Builder.

Lightning Bolt Solutions: Build Once, Then Distribute and Reuse
Lightning Bolt makes it easy to create and export industry-specific solutions and use them to jump-start new communities, or package and distribute them for others to use. Save time by building once, then reusing. Whether it’s for your own org or you’re a consulting partner or ISV, you can reduce the time required to build communities and cut development costs. And lower costs make everyone happy.
Rebrand Really Quickly with Custom Theme Layouts
Create custom theme layouts to instantly update the look and feel of your entire community. Customize the header and footer to match your company’s style, and create a custom search bar and user profile menu. Then easily switch between your custom theme layouts, search, and user profile menus, or package them up to share with other orgs. Whether you’re a consulting partner or an ISV, or you simply want to revamp your own community, custom theme layouts make rebranding a cinch.
Expand Your Workspace Horizons with the Streamlined Community Builder
We’ve redesigned the toolbars in Community Builder to create a single unified bar, and enhanced the property editor to give you even more room to work on your pages. More room means you can see two-column layouts properly.
Add Lightning Components from the AppExchange in Community Builder
The integrated AppExchange experience makes it easy for you to find custom Lightning components on the AppExchange and add them to your org directly from Community Builder.
Track, Learn, and Fine-Tune with Google Analytics
Enable page tracking by adding your Google Analytics™ tracking ID in Community Builder. Use the resulting data to learn more about the pages your customers visit. Then adjust your community’s pages to more accurately reach your customers.
Control Public Access for Each Page in Your Community
Set page-specific access to your community pages. Then you can restrict or open up access as you see fit.
SEO Enhancements Improve Search-Engine Ranking
To improve your community’s SEO ranking, we now redirect non-canonical URLs to canonical URLs using 301 redirects. A canonical URL lets you tell search engines that slightly different URLs, which all point to the same content, are actually the same thing. A 301 redirect indicates that a URL has been permanently moved, which is optimal for SEO.
Page Layouts Are Now Called Content Layouts
With the introduction of custom theme layouts, we’ve changed the name of page layouts to content layouts for clarity. Content layouts define the content regions of your page, such as a two-column layout with a 2:1 ratio.
Develop and Customize with Global Lightning Components, Interfaces, and Events
We’ve added several new global Lightning interfaces, components, and events to make it easier for developers to extend and customize communities built in Community Builder. Create custom search, navigation, and user profile menus, or track events with Google Analytics.

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