Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-27515292-20160103192857/@comment-1251315-20160103193253

Templates are local only, you can't use templates cross-wikia as it would generate heavy load. Also, some templates are created using extensions that have to be requested to be enabled per-wiki, so wouldn't work in such cases.

All you need to do to create a template is to go to the page in the template namespace (eg Template:My_Template) and create it like any other page. You would then use template invocation syntax to load it (eg )

You can enable different fonts by using an @import statement in your MediaWiki:Common.css file to load the font you wish. It's best to use the fonts that are on the Google CDN, try searching "fontnamehere Google CDN" on Google and you should find it.