Build it once, then reuse it
Make your best site a template. Save your best sections. Your whole team can reuse both.
Your sites are the templates
Shingle has no public template gallery. Every site is built fresh for its business, so there's no catalog of layouts shared with other businesses. What builds up over time is your own work, and that's what a template is here.
Say you've built a roofing site you're proud of. Open its menu and choose Make it a template. It stays an ordinary site you can edit and publish, and its card now says Template. From then on, anyone on your team who can make sites finds it under Start from a template on New site. They name the new site and a copy opens as a demo, with the template's pages, design, images and widgets.
A template is always its site's latest version, so improving it improves every copy you make after that. A copy uses no credits and no AI, which also means it starts out saying what the template says. Change the name, phone and address in Details, and the words by asking or on the page, before you show it to anyone.
A section that fits anywhere
Some sections earn their keep on every site: a price list, a “how we work” section, a set of questions. In Edit mode, point at one, press Save section and give it a name. It goes into your team's library, in Settings under Library, where a team can keep 50.
To use one, open Add a section on any page of any of your team's sites. Your saved sections come first. Shingle keeps the layout, the parts and the words that fit, and writes it again in that site's colors and fonts, with that business's facts. The first client's names, prices and photos stay behind.
So a saved section arrives as a close likeness, and it may differ from the original in small ways. That's the price of landing safely on a site with a different design. It's a change like any other, so it uses 5 credits and you can undo it.
Template or saved section
A template
- A whole site, to start a new one from
- Free, and ready as soon as you name it
- Brings its pages, design, images and widgets
- Leaves its address, domain, history, blog posts, form answers and analytics behind
- Leaves its tracking codes and Search Console tag behind too
A saved section
- One part of a page, to add to a site you already have
- 5 credits, and written again for that site
- Brings its layout, its parts and the words that fit
- Leaves its code, facts and photos behind
- Stays on its sites if you remove it from the library
Make your first template
Build your best site
Take one site for one kind of business, and change it until you'd happily sell it again.
Make it a template
Choose Make it a template from its card's More site actions, or the site menu in its editor.
Start the next one from it
Choose it on New site, name the copy, then change its details and words for the new business.
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
Shingle has no public gallery of ready-made templates. Each site is built fresh for its business, and your team's own sites become your templates. Build one the way you like it, choose Make it a template, and start new sites from it for free.
Starting a site from a template uses no credits, since it's a copy of the template's latest version. Adding a saved section uses 5 credits, because Shingle writes it again for the site it's going into. Any changes you ask for after that use credits as usual.
At first, yes. A copy says what the template says until you change it, so update the name, phone and address in Details, and the words by asking or on the page. The template keeps its own web address, domain, history, blog posts, form submissions, analytics and tracking codes.
No. It's written again in each site's own design, because Shingle's sites don't share one set of parts. It keeps the layout, the parts and the words that fit, and uses the new business's facts, colors, fonts and photos. If something's off, change it by asking or on the page.
A template belongs to the team that made it, and there's no way yet to share one with several of your teams. If you move a site to another team, it stays a template there, and that team can take it out of its templates.
No. They come with the plan and its trial, with no limit on either. Anyone who can make sites, a member or more, can use them. Building the first site takes credits, and publishing a site needs the plan.
Read next
- Bulk website builderBuild up to 200 sites at once from a list or a CSV.
- Edit by askingSay what to change, or type on the page itself.
- Client accessInvite a client to edit one site and nothing else.
- Web design agenciesMany client sites, one team, your brand to clients.
- Website as a serviceWhat it is, the math, who it suits, what goes wrong.
- Saved sectionsSave a section and add it to any of your team's sites.
Build your first site
Start from a Google listing or a few notes. Demos usually take 5–15 minutes.
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