Discover the Steps to Customize cPanel Using the Branding Editor

Together with the webmail interface, you can change how your clients’ cPanels look. A personalized footer or your company’s logo can be added with ease. This tutorial will teach you how to build a duplicate of your current cPanel branding style and set it as the default style by navigating to the customizable options.

1. Login to WHM with your credentials.
2. Hover to the top left search box and type branding. Click on Branding when it appears.
3. There will be two options listed – one for webmail and one for cPanel. Next, click on the Live Editor link besides the one which you want to edit. (The option for webmail ends in mail.)
4. Go to the Create or Upload Branding button and click on it.
5. Now go to the Create a new branding style section and give a name to your new template. Click on the Create button. Here, we have named as custom-cpanel. After this you will see a message starting that “The branding style custom-cpanel was successfully created.”
6. Next, click on the Go Back to Branding Editor button.
7. Then scroll down and search for the branding style you created and click Edit this Style.

You will now see edit options. Check below the brief description of what can be modified:

System Variable Meaning To view Variable Value Type
HOSTNAME The name of your system (computer). echo $HOSTNAME
HISTFILE It is a name of a file in which command history is saved. echo $HISTFILE
HISTFILESIZE The maximum number of lines contained in the history file. echo $HISTFILESIZE
HISTSIZE The total number of commands to remember in the command history. By default, its value is 500. echo $HISTSIZE
CDPATH The search path for the cd command. echo $CDPATH
HOME The home directory of the current user. echo $HOME
BASH_VERSION It holds the version of this instance of bash. echo $BASH_VERSION
LANG It is used to determine the locale category for any category not specifically select with a variable starting with LC_ . echo $LANG
IFS The Internal Field Separator that is used for word splitting after expansion and to split lines into words with
the read builtin command. The default value is .
echo $IFS
PATH The search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands. echo $PATH
PSl Your prompt settings. echo $PS1
TERM Your login terminal type. echo $TERM
export TERM=vt100
SHELL Set path to login shell. echo $SHELL
DISPLAY Set X display name. echo $DISPLAY
export DISPLAY=:0.1
EDITOR Set name of default text editor. export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
TMOUT The default timeout for the read builtin command. Also in an interactive shell, the value is interpreted as
the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the command. If not input provided it will logout user.
echo $TMOUT

8. Your new custom branded style can be set to default style in the Branding Editor. For this you will need to click on Set Default for New Accounts. This will lead the new accounts to use the new custom branded cPanel you created.

Best wishes! Now that you know how to make a duplicate of an existing cPanel branding style, you may adjust it to become the default style and are familiar with the alternatives.

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