When you find a beautiful theme created by one of our community members in the Vivaldi Themes gallery and like the author’s style, browse their other themes to find even more gorgeous creations.
To view all themes by the author:
There are many ways our community is helping Vivaldi grow – by promoting Vivaldi to potential new users, testing or translating the products and web pages, helping other users with their questions, and more. But we’ve also made it possible to support Vivaldi by making a donation, either a one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation.
When you’re logged out, you can make a one-time anonymous donation, but when you’re logged in you can show off that you believe in our mission and have made a donation.
To get the badge of appreciation:
When someone replies to a topic you’ve commented on on the Vivaldi Forum, then of course you want to see what they say and you click on the notification to be taken to the topic. But some notifications are just informational. In that case, you can mark them read without opening the topic.
To mark a notification as read:
To mark all notifications read, click on “Mark all read” at the bottom of the list.
Even if you can undo some things, it’s better to prevent them in the first place. That’s why on Vivaldi Social, you can choose to be asked to confirm your decision before boosting or deleting posts, and before unfollowing an account.
To enable confirmation dialogs:
Having too many icons can sometimes make things confusing. To make it clear what one or the other button on your Vivaldi blog editor’s menus does, you can opt to display text labels instead of icons.
To switch from icons to text:
Options menu in the top right corner. 
Reading back what you posted to the Vivaldi Forum and you’re not happy with it? Use the edit option to fix that typo, clarify your point, and more.
To update your post on the Vivaldi Forum:
3 dot menu button in the bottom right corner of the post (next to Reply, Quote, and upvoting options).When you “watch” topics on the Vivaldi Forum, you’ll receive notifications whenever someone replies to the discussion. You can start watching topics manually or be added as a watcher automatically after you’ve posted.
To change the default watch settings:
Since on Mastodon, there aren’t any algorithms deciding what content to show you, you need to actively follow accounts and hashtags to fill up your Vivaldi Social Home feed with interesting posts.
To find which hashtags to follow:
To follow a hashtag:
If you’ve enabled Two-Factor Authentication for your Vivaldi account, then you need to use an app password when adding your account to mail and calendar clients, such as Vivaldi Mail and Vivaldi Calendar.
To generate an app password:
Give your blog on Vivaldi.net a look that reflects you and the topics you’re blogging about – from theme colors to fonts, a logo, and a header image. In this tip, let’s find out how to add the latter.
To add a header image to your blog:
You can receive a notification about many things happening on Vivaldi Social. For example, when someone boosts your post, mentions you in their post, requests to follow you, etc. You probably care about some notifications more than others, so make use of the settings to decide what kind of notifications you get and how.
To edit notification settings:
“Show settings” in the top right corner of the Notifications column.To learn about email notifications, check out Tip #374.
Bring your address book over to your Vivaldi account and add new contacts any time from the Contacts page in Vivaldi Webmail and send emails in a breeze.
To import contacts to Vivaldi Webmail:
Did you know that in addition to the built-in Calendar client, Vivaldi also offers an online calendar service bundled with Vivaldi Webmail*? You can use it with Vivaldi Calendar and add it to other calendar clients and apps that support CalDAV.
To add your Vivaldi account to Vivaldi Calendar:
To add your Vivaldi account to other clients and apps, follow their instructions and check out this Help page for more information.
*New accounts first need to build up reputation to use Vivaldi Webmail and the calendar. More info.
When you’ve come across a great post and want all your followers to see it too, you can boost the post. When you just want to let the author know that you liked their post, you can favorite it. Both boosted and favorited content can later be found among your posts and favorites.
But what if you don’t want to publicly interact with the post or want make an extra record of a boosted/favorited post? In that case you have the option to bookmark it. To bookmark a post on Vivaldi Social, simply click on the “Bookmark” button below the interesting post.
