Portal themes and Web page composer

Hi,
I am wondering how applying portal themes would impact the views in Web Page composer based / created sites?
We are trying to create new sites using web page composer tool but was wondering if simply applying portal themes solves our problems of display (colors etc). I know that portal themes would not cover the layout of the pages but atleast we only have one other thing to solve.
By the way was also wondering if I got the concept correctly. When an admin person applies a portal theme, the specific team he or she assignes to the users will be permanent for all the users under a role or group right?
thanks in advance

Well Alvin, logically the theme applied to portal should take over any content published using WPC. I remember during our implementation, we did not have to had any extra efforts for creating themes for WPC sites :-)...Also for your other question, as per the display rule applied, the theme will be applied to all the users under a group.
~Cheers,
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