Choose and change your theme
See which themes you can use, preview your own marketplace in any of them and switch safely.
The theme decides how your marketplace looks: the header, the home page, how listings are laid out and how the site behaves on a phone. Your content is separate from the theme, so you can try a different look at any time without touching your listings, categories, users or pages.
Every theme is included in every plan. New marketplaces start on Nova.
See your current theme
In the admin panel, go to Design › Themes. The top of the page shows the theme your site uses now, with a desktop and a phone picture, and buttons for its Theme Options and Custom CSS. Below it are shortcuts to the other design pages:
| Page | What you change there |
|---|---|
| Theme Options | Logo, colours, layout and the home page of the current theme. |
| Widgets | Blocks in the sidebar, the footer and next to the post-a-listing form. |
| Menu | Your own links in the top bar. |
| Custom CSS | Your own styles, for changes the options don’t cover. |
Preview a theme with your own content
Under Other themes, each theme has a Preview button. It opens your marketplace in a new tab, with your listings and categories, shown in that theme.
- Only you see the preview. Your visitors keep seeing your current theme.
- The preview lasts about ten minutes, or until you open Design › Themes again.
- Theme options you haven’t set yet show the theme’s defaults, so a preview without your logo is normal.
Switch to another theme
- Go to Design › Themes.
- Under Other themes, find the theme you want and click Activate.
- Confirm the message Switch your site to …? Your listings and content stay; theme options start from that theme defaults.
- If the theme has options, the Theme Options page opens. Upload your logo again and set the options you want.
- Open your site with Visit Your Website and check the home page, a category and a listing.
The change is live for everyone straight away.
What carries over and what doesn’t
| Stays the same | Starts again in the new theme |
|---|---|
| Listings, categories, locations, custom fields | Logo, favicon and the other images in Theme Options |
| Users, orders, pages, blog, FAQ, emails | Colours, home page texts and banners set in Theme Options |
| Your menu links | |
| Your custom CSS | |
| Widgets, in the areas the new theme has | |
| HTML in the head and footer |
Theme options are saved per theme. If you go back to a theme you used before, its old options come back with it.
Widgets live in areas such as Sidebar, Footer or Header, and not every theme has the same areas. If the new theme has no Header area, for example, widgets you placed there stop showing (they come back if you switch back). Check Design › Widgets after switching.
Custom CSS written for one theme often targets that theme’s own class names. After a switch, look through your site for anything that looks out of place, and switch Use custom CSS off while you adjust it if needed.
The themes you can choose from
The Design › Themes page lists every theme you can use. Some older themes were renamed in the panel, so the table also gives the name they had in older guides.
| Theme | Good for | Also known as |
|---|---|---|
| Nova | The default for new sites. A bright, modern marketplace: big search on the home page, category tiles with icons, photo-first listing cards with favourites, filters on listing pages. Supports Buy Now, stock, reviews and favourites. | |
| Marketplace | A marketplace look with a large hero image, category icons and a “How it works” section. | Mercury |
| Simple White | A clean, responsive general-purpose theme with right-to-left support. | Atlantic |
| Homepage Hero | A clean, simple theme with a large home page header. | Titi |
| Home Camp | Property, car dealers or general marketplaces: a big home page slider with two call-to-action buttons and four colour schemes. | Basecamp |
| Auction | Auction-style listings, with the highest bidder and number of bids shown. | |
| Craigslist Sale | A responsive general theme with seven colour schemes. | CZSale |
| Job Drop | Job boards. | Jobdrop |
| Pinterest Classifieds | A Pinterest-style masonry grid of photos, six colour skins, light or dark listings. | Pinclass |
| Orange Impact | A general theme with 18 colour schemes. | Kamaleon |
| Modern Deluxe | A home page carousel of listings and several colour schemes. | Moderndeluxe |
| Newspaper | A clean look with ten colour schemes and an adjustable page width. | |
| Turquoise Impact | An organised, clear layout with three colour schemes. | Olson |
| Responsive Listings | A straightforward layout built for phones and tablets, in three colours. | Responsive |
| Modern Splash | A big background picture on the home page and seven colour schemes. | Splash |
| reClassifieds | A minimal, clean classifieds layout with three colour schemes. | |
| Listings Board | A simple board of listings. | Yummo |
Nova is the theme that gets new features first. The older themes still work, but some newer features, such as the category tiles with icons on the home page, look best in Nova and Marketplace.
Your own theme
Under Custom themes on the same page, Get a quote asks the Yclas team to design a theme just for your marketplace. A theme made for you appears under Your custom themes, with its own Activate button. Only your site can use it.
If you only need small changes, try Theme Options and Custom CSS first: they cover most needs without a custom theme.
Related guides
- Theme options — set colours, layout and home page texts for your theme.
- Your home page — choose what visitors see first.
- Logo and favicon — upload your branding after switching.
- Widgets — check your widget areas after a switch.
Updated 7 October 2026 · Suggest an edit