Plan the shared zones first
One place to change what many pages show.
Life cycle: Plan, example 3 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.
Contents
In the Layouts editor
- List what repeats: on Fit & Healthy the header and footer on every page (shared layout Header / Footer), the "Most popular articles" band on articles and recipes (Prefooter).
- For each repeated area, plan one shared layout and which zone of which page layouts links to it.
With templates
- Repeated chrome that never changes per page belongs in the page layout template (
pagelayout.tpl,pagelayout/header.tpl); on this theme it is placed by template blocks in Header / Footer.
Which to choose
Shared layouts for what editors arrange; templates for what is fixed.
Check
exp:layouts listshows every page layout linkingheaderandfooterto Header / Footer.
Related pages
- Shared layouts and zone linking
- Plan examples, every page
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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