Publish slide deck templates to the Community

You can create and publish slide deck templates, intended to be used with Figma Slides, to the Figma Community. Share templates for design reviews, start up pitches, class projects, conference talks, and any other type of presentation you can think of. Learn more about creating templates →

When you publish a slide deck templates to the Community, others can duplicate it and use it in their own presentations. Anyone who duplicates the template gets a new copy, without any updates, version history, or comments from the original file.

You can continue to make changes to the template and publish any updates to the template’s Community page. Other creators will then be able to duplicate the updated version to get access to those changes.

Publish slide deck templates

You can only publish templates when you have them open in the Figma Slides editor, not from the file browser. Anyone with can edit access to the slide deck can publish the template and any updates. This includes collaborators with can edit access to the team or project.

To publish a template:

1. Open the template in the Figma Slides editor.
2. Click Share in the right sidebar.
3. Select Publish to Community.
4. Click Publish to open the publishing modal.
5. Fill out the publishing modal with your template’s information. This information will display on the template’s Community page:
   • Name: Give your template a name. This can be different from the original file.
   • Description: Write a description for your template to give users directions for how to use it.
6. Click the arrow next to Advanced to view additional settings:
   • Support contact: Provide an email address, website, or help center link users can go to for support with using your template.
   • Contributors: You can add other creators to recognize their contributions to the template. Each person you add as a creator will need to have a Figma Community profile. Figma will send a notification to anyone added as a creator, which the creator must accept or decline the request. Accepted contributors will appear on the template’s page and the template will appear on each creator's Community profile.
   • Comments: Comments are enabled by default. Figma will notify you when someone leaves a comment. Learn how to manage Community notifications →
7. Click Publish.

Figma will send everyone you listed as a creator a notification. This gives them the option to accept or decline the request. Every creator that accepts the request will be listed on the template’s Community page.

Publish template updates

Anyone with can edit access to the template can continue to make changes to the original file. They will need to publish those changes to the Community to see them reflected in the Community file.

Figma will treat this as a new version of the template and won't update any existing duplicates of the template. Community members will need to duplicate the updated version to access those changes.

Figma maintains your template’s usage metrics, across versions.

To publish an update:

1. Open the template in the Figma Slides editor.
2. Click Share in the right sidebar.
3. Select Update Community file.
4. Click Publish update to open the publishing modal.
5. (Optional) Update the title, description, tags, support contact, or contributors.
6. Click Save to confirm.

Unpublish a template

Unpublish the template to remove the listing from the Community. This will remove the template from your Community profile and the profiles of any other creators.

Unpublishing a template doesn't affect duplicates of the template. Anyone who duplicated the template before it was removed can continue to use their copy of the template.

To unpublish a template:

1. Open the template in the Figma Slides editor.
2. Click Share in the right sidebar.
3. Select Update Community file.
4. Click Unpublish.
5. Click Unpublish again to confirm.