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Brass Contributor

Oct 16, 2019

How to ensure consistent theme across (hub)sites in an Intranet

Hi. We're looking into organizing our upcoming Intranet to use modern hub sites. My understanding so far is that we need a root site, which links to all our hub sites. Is there a way to make su...

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Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

Oct 16, 2019

Hikenneho,

In the Hub site there is an option on the site settings menu (cog) for hub site settings. One of the options is to set a Site Design that will be applied to all sites connected to the Hub Site as below.

Creating a Site design isn't straight forward but information on that can be found here:-

Get started - create site design

kenneho
Brass Contributor
Oct 16, 2019
Thanks again for your input, Andrew Hodges.

So for all sites across all hubs to have the same design, I'd need to make sure that all hubs select the same entry in the "Site design applied to associated sites" dropdown menu?
- Andrew Hodges
  Bronze Contributor
  Oct 16, 2019
  Hikenneho ,
  
  If you are creating lots of hubs then yes you would have to set that setting for each hub.
  
  If you have already created many hub sites then you could write some powershell to update them all using this command as well as some script to cycle through your hub sites.
  
  Hope that helps.
  
  Andy
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Oct 16, 2019
  Best way to do this is by implementing a Site Design that applies the same theme to your Hub Sites so when you create a new Hub Site the theme is applied