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title: Manage Templates
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createdAt: 2025-03-11T06:56:56.992Z
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BrightPlates comes equipped with a number of default templates for key verticals: Food Services, Retail, Corporate, and Education. However, you can also use presentation templates that are specialized for your organization or business. To manage your templates, click **Manage Templates** in the top-right of the page.

# Add a Template

Click the **Upload new template** button to open the **Upload Template** window:

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1. **Browse**: Locate and select the *.zip* file containing the presentation template files.
2. **Template filename**: Enter the name of the HTML template file. This file is usually named *index.html*. If you don't know the name of the HTML file, open the template *.zip* file and identify the *.html* file that is in the root directory of that zip file.
3. **Category**: Select a vertical to which the template belongs.
4. **Orientation**: Specify whether the template is **Landscape** (e.g. 1920x1080) or **Portrait** (e.g. 1080x1920) oriented.
5. **Title**: Specify a title for the template, which will be visible in the [Templates](#) browser in the BrightPlates UI.
6. **Description**: Specify a description for the template, which will be visible when the template is selected in the **Templates** browser.
7. **Enable jQuery®**: Check this box if the template uses jQuery®, which allows for advanced data parsing and server interaction. Ask the template author if you're not sure whether or not your template uses jQuery®.
8. **Upload**: Click this button to upload the template to BrightPlates. It will be visible in the **Templates** browser momentarily.

:::hint{type="warning"}
Templates should contain fewer than 100 files. If the template contains close to 100 files, the average file size should not exceed 650-700 KB. The template upload process may fail if these limits are exceeded.
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# Manage Templates

You can do any of the following on the Manage Templates page:

- **Delete selected**: Deletes the templates that you've checked (selected).
- **Deselect all**: Removes check markers from all templates in the list.
- **Delete**: Removes the template from your BrightPlates account.

:::hint{type="warning"}
Deleting a template will make presentations based on that template unusable. Make sure the template is unused before deleting it.
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- **Download**: Download the template *.zip* file. When downloaded, the template file will have a long, indecipherable name (e.g. "9d85826319386642941c3b7d3341035a.zip"), so we recommend giving it a more user friendly name once it's saved on your computer.