# Themes vs templates?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/themes-vs-templates/30637>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 24, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/themes-vs-templates/30637 "2024-01-24T02:36:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![smokinjo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/smokinjo/32/11301_2.png) [@smokinjo](https://forum.mautic.org/u/smokinjo)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/themes-vs-templates/30637/1 "2024-01-24T02:36:06Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is:4.x  
My PHP version is:

I ma rying to get a better explonation of themes and templates?

My understanding was that you build a theme, and from that, you cna build your templates for various different documents: emails, newlstters, landing pages, etc…

Can some one clarify this a bit for me?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ekke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ekke/32/296_2.png) [@ekke](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ekke)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/themes-vs-templates/30637/3 "2024-01-24T07:07:36Z")

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Pretty simple:

- The Theme (e.g. email theme and/or landing page theme) gives you the various defaults that you may need
- The specific emails that you create from those themes e.g. one specific newsletter or a “welcome” email in a campaign, are also called templates - mostly because their content can have dynamic elements.And especially campaign emails (a.k.a. campaign email templates) can be used in various places, and with timing individually adjusted to each recipient.