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title: "Managing your full content templates"
date: "2017-12-20T10:48:47+00:00"
summary: "Efficiently manage your Site Studio full content templates with our comprehensive guide. Learn to edit, set defaults, disable, and delete templates to optimize your content management workflow."
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You can manage your existing Full content templates including editing, disabling, disabling selection, setting as default and deleting them.

Editing a full content template
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1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > Contenttemplates > **Select a type of content**
2.  Find the Full content template you want to edit
3.  Click **Edit**
4.  On the next screen, edit the template
5.  Click **Save and continue**
6.  The changes you have made to your template will be applied.

![aa2f2467-edit-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/e6d8912c-d61e-4623-9ffa-7d85ef745721/web/aa2f2467-edit-full-content-template.png)

Setting a full content template as the default
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When you set a Full content template as the default it will be used automatically by content unless a specific template has been selected using the [template selector](https://sitestudiodocs.acquia.com/6.0/user-guide/adding-template-selection-field-editors "Adding a template selection field for editors"). When you change which template is set to default, all content using the default template will use the template set.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > Content templates > **Select a type of content**
2.  Find the Full content template you want to set as default
3.  Click **Set as default**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Set as default.**

![6b2cf0f0-set-default-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/88b7ae74-133c-4c43-95ae-684bb059aed7/web/6b2cf0f0-set-default-full-content-template.png)

Disabling a full content template
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When you disable a Full content template it will no longer be used. Any content using the template will use the next available template. This will be the Default template, a global template or the theme template. 

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > Content > **Select a type of content**
2.  Find the Full content template you want to disable
3.  Click **Disable**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Disable.**

![42c4a9a5-disable-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/54b9c01a-b897-4d87-8a1c-4995c9c0edf1/web/42c4a9a5-disable-full-content-template.png)

Disabling selection of a full content template
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When you disable selection of a Full content template it will no longer appear as an option to select in the [template selection field](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/adding-template-selection-field-editors "Adding a template selection field for editors"). Disable selection allows you to depreciate a template without it breaking instances where it's used currently.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > Content templates > **Select a type of content**
2.  Find the Full content template you want to disable selection
3.  Click **Disable selection**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Disable selection.**

![c88cbe95-disable-selection-of-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/e7d7aa63-4858-469d-b05e-d06822f5e3e5/web/c88cbe95-disable-selection-of-full-content-template.png)

Deleting a full content template
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When you delete a Full content template it will permanently remove the files and configuration. Any content using the template will use the next available template. This could be the Default template, a global template or the theme template.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > Content templates > **Select a type of content**
2.  Find the Full content template you want to delete
3.  Click **Delete**
4.  On the confirmation screen, click **Delete.**

![4d8f91c9-delete-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/a44eca30-ddba-452b-aa60-5a100e7e59d4/web/4d8f91c9-delete-full-content-template.png)

Export content template
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You export a content template as a package to use in another website.

Important

Important. When you export a content template, the package will not include the content entity bundle configuration.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **Content** 
2.  Find the Content template you want to export
3.  Click **Export package to file.**

![5673c21a-export-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/16987947-8985-4235-bcdb-b598e88f891c/web/5673c21a-export-full-content-template.png)

Lock content template
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You can lock a content template to prevent it being overwritten when a package file containing a content template with the same machine name is imported.

1.  Navigate to Site Studio > Templates > **Content** 
2.  Find the Content template you want to lock
3.  Click **Lock entity.**

![da4dd4ce-lock-full-content-template.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/1e0aca49-7d9c-49f1-88ea-dd0b325867eb/web/da4dd4ce-lock-full-content-template.png)