Apparently, the issue was that after one edits standalone.xml, the new settings are only activated after restarting Keycloak (in my case restarting the jboss keycloak container). This is necessary because in order to edit templates and see changes one must disable cacheThemes and cacheTemplates in Keycloak’s standalone.xml. Issue resolved! On December 29, 2016 at 9:01:54 PM, David Gomes (gomes(a)memsql.com) wrote: Good day, I am writing my own Keycloak theme and I am using the Sunrise <https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/tree/master/examples/themes/src/main... example theme as a starting point. It seems, however, that when I create a sunrise/login/login.ftl file, such as the one in the base theme, this file doesn't actually get used for rendering the login form. I tried to edit the base theme instead and edit its login/login.ftl. It seems that editing this file has no effect at all. I wrote this in the file and the login page for the base theme remained exactly the same. <#import "template.ftl" as layout> <@layout.registrationLayout displayInfo=social.displayInfo; section> </(a)layout.registrationLayout&gt; Editing CSS, template.tfl and other things works, but editing the theme/login/login.ftl has no effect at all. The relevant settings for my Realm are the following: "registrationAllowed": true, "registrationEmailAsUsername": true, "rememberMe": true, "requiredCredentials": [ "password" ] In the Keycloak administration console, editing the current theme works perfectly fine as well, but I'm not being able to edit the actual login form in any of the example themes. I tried other files such as register.ftl and editing this one works perfectly fine. David Gomes MemSQL