Appearance and domain

In the base settings you pick a branding — the portal takes its logo and accent color from it (links, highlights, active navigation items). Your help center looks like part of your brand, not a generic page.

Branding also controls the sidebar footer: by default it shows "Made with clarife". The Hide clarife footer toggle in branding removes it, and a custom footer link replaces it with a link to your own site.

The public portal uses the layout familiar from modern documentation sites:

• Sidebar with your logo, search, and the category tree — order and icons from the dashboard.
• Article content centered, with full document block rendering (text, annotated screenshots, code, tables).
• Previous / next navigation under every article — readers move through the base like a book, in sidebar order.
• Home page — the home entry or an automatic category overview (see categories and entries).

If you have a custom domain configured, assign the base to it in the base settings (the Custom domain field). The base is then also served at:

You can also make the base the domain home page - on the domain card in Settings > Branding pick the Knowledge base option. The domain then becomes the address of your documentation, with no /kb/ segment in the URLs:

Old /kb/ addresses redirect to the short ones automatically, and every link in the portal uses the clean URLs.

The base's canonical addresses and sitemap then point at your domain - it's your domain that builds search ranking, not clarife.app. A domain serves only the bases assigned to it, so with several products each documentation lives on its own domain. You can see every address of a base in the Public address section of the Manage view.

The Indexing toggle in the base settings controls whether Google and other search engines may index the portal:

• On — public articles can appear in search results.
• Off — the portal works normally but asks search engines to skip it (noindex).

ℹ️ Info: Internal bases and gated articles are never indexed — regardless of the toggle.

💡 Tip: Turn indexing off if you also publish the same content elsewhere — you'll avoid duplicates competing in search results. Turn it on when the portal is the primary home of your documentation.

Yes — the base has its own branding field, independent of individual links' branding.

Yes, the layout is fully responsive — on small screens the sidebar collapses into a menu.

No — you style the portal through branding (logo, accent color). This keeps the portal fast and safe for visitors.