Adding new & editing existing templates via TD Composer is so difficult

Posted in: Newspaper
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jjgoi
#533040
Jul 27, 2025 at 11:04 am

Hi,

I recently bought the Newspaper template and used the Forest Beat theme and found the experience to be so extremely difficult-to-use and cumbersome.

It doesn’t come with a page template – which is fine – but clearly there’s no way for me to even create a tagdiv template at all that my non-post pages can use. A hacky way I did was to import any random template into “Page”, and copy-pasted the Base64-encoded source.

I went through your knowledgebase and there doesn’t seem to be any way to figure out how this can be used?

1. How do you even add your own template such that it can be used by pages? I only just need a simple page layout but seems to be an impossible task.

2. If I want to customise the “Single Post Author” component on a page, I noted the default Forest Beat overrides font-size as 16px, somehow I cannot replicate that via the tagDiv composer?

3. I wanted to change the theme colours of Forest Beat, from the theme colours tab, I can only change the primary accent and a bunch of other colours, but I cannot find these:

--light-green-forest-beat – where can I modify this?

The entire tbd-global-colors block (via view-source) is: 


--mm-custom-color-4:#C2A25D;--mm-custom-color-5:#F7F9F9;--mm-custom-color-1:#053426;--mm-custom-color-2:#B79259;--mm-custom-color-3:#79847E;--accent-color:#fff;--accent-forest-beat:#5c6b28;--dark-green-forest-beat:#1D2110;--white-forest-beat:#FFFFFF;--transparent-white-forest-beat:rgba(255,255,255,0.25);--transparent-white-2-forest-beat:rgba(255,255,255,0.6);--transparent-white-3-forest-beat:rgba(255,255,255,0.7);--transparent-dark-green-forest-beat:rgba(29,33,16,0.8);--transparent-dark-green-2-forest-beat:rgba(29,33,16,0.25);--light-green-forest-beat:#F3F7EE;--transparent-dark-green-3-forest-beat:rgba(29,33,16,0.65)

Is the experience intended to be like that?

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Calin
#533070
Jul 28, 2025 at 11:52 am

Hi,

1. With the Newspaper builder theme, you can create pages and cloud templates, but you can not create templates for pages. You create a page how you like it and if you want to use that one as a template you just duplicate the page and change in it the elements you want to be changed.

2. The “Single Post Author” element is used on post templates and this will be used as template element for authors on single post template https://i.imgur.com/BhZHHbJ.png https://i.imgur.com/ZfSV6nD.png

3. The colors can be changed using tagDiv Composer check the Manager and global colors – https://i.imgur.com/lwb7sNv.png

Thank you!

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