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Why is my new viewlet showing up in other skins on other plone instances?

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This FAQ applies to: Plone 3.0.x

When creating a custom skin/theme a viewlet (registered in browser/configure.xml) is showing up in instances, that don't use the custom skin.

You probably don't have the layer=".interfaces.IThemeSpecific" line. Ensure that your entry in browser/configure.xml looks like this:

<browser:viewlet
        name="myskin.myspecialviewlet"
        manager="plone.app.layout.viewlets.interfaces.IPortalHeader"
        class=".viewlets.MySpecialViewlet"
        permission="zope2.View"
        layer=".interfaces.IThemeSpecific"
        />

You may need to restart Plone after the change is made.