You can set the look of a page in your project to “be the Master Style” for the project and then apply your Master Style to all (or some ) of the other pages in that project.
Using this function ensures that
- all pages use the same settings and
- all style changes made using theme variations are automatically propagated to those pages as you go along, without your having to manually change settings on every page over and over.
1. Set the checkbox at the bottom of the page to "This Style Applies to this Page Only"
2. Make all your changes, using theme style selections and theme variations, and get everything as you think you want it.
3. Now, under the Cog Wheel, choose "Set As Master Style for this Theme".
4. Next, on each page of your site, you can go to the bottom of the page and make sure that page is set to "This Style is the Master Style for Whatever Theme". The wording Realmac employs here is a confusing but what this option really means is "This page uses the master style I have set for this project".
Every page which you have set to the Master Style should now look identical.
Once you have put a Master Style in place, any future changes you make on any page set to the Master Style will automatically be propagated to all pages which are set to the Master Style providing you make the changes while the checkbox at the bottom of the page is still set to "This Style is the Master Style for Whatever Theme". You will in effect, just keep updating your Master Style and all the pages which have adopted it.
Some important things to note
If you want a different style than the Master Style on an individual page in your project, just make sure that specific page is set to " This Style Applies to this Page Only" before you select your variations for that page. The wording here really means “ This Page Uses its Own Style”.
When you add a new page to your project, it may look like your Master Style, but that does not mean it is SET to your Master Style, so go into Page Inspector and if you want this page to use your Master Style, make sure you set the page to "This Style is the Master Style for Whatever Theme".
Once you “set a Master Style” for a Project and start using it on all of your pages, you are no longer using the “theme style” you initially selected from under the “theme styles folder” next to the cogwheel, whether it was the theme default style, one of the preformatted styles, or one you personally created; nor are any changes you make to the appearance of your page or to your Master Style being updated on styles saved in the theme style folder. Theme Styles and Master Styles are two separate functions; so if you started out the process by selecting a Theme Style and then set it to the Master Style for the Project and then made further changes, you might want to go back and re-save your current Master Style as a Theme Style for later use on this or other projects.
Setting a Master Style only affects this project. It is not really a Master Style for the THEME, it is a Master Style for THIS SPECIFIC PROJECT IN THIS SPECIFIC THEME. If you were to start a completely new website and select this same theme from your theme drawer, you would be back to the theme default: your “Master Style” from your last project would only be accessible to you on a new website if you remembered to save it as a named theme style and are using the same theme.