Change default Layout option?

  • When I create a page using the theme I have in place right now, with the “Layout” option on “Default” (lower right side of editor), if gives me the sidebar on the right side of each page. Our preference is to have the sidebar on the left, so I have to click the option to “Two Columns, Right” for each new page.

    Is there a way to change what WordPress considers the “Default” Layout to be “Two Columns, Right”?

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  • Yes this is possible. In your theme directory, you’ll have some page templates named something like the following:

    page.php
    page-twocolumnsright.php (or something like that)

    just switch the names of the templates so page-twocolumnsright.php becomes page.php, and the old page.php becomes page-twocolumnsleft (or something else that helps describe the layout of that template)

    You may also want to edit the header in those templates to reflect the changes you’ve made.

    Thread Starter Benny

    (@wordbob)

    Matt:

    This theme, inharmony, doesn’t have any of those templates, or even a page.php. I thought that was kind of odd, but it works.

    Is there a sample of what a left sidebar / right content template would look like? Or perhaps the CSS that supports that?

    There are too many variables to say what the template/CSS should be. Your best bet would be to ask the theme author how to accomplish it here: https://themeforest.net/item/inharmony-responsive-multipurpose-wp-theme/7063129/comments

    Thread Starter Benny

    (@wordbob)

    Matt:

    Thanks,I will head over that way.

    Also, I’m a bit new to WordPress and I believe I may have made a miss-assumption. I’d like to correct my understanding for now and the future…

    If I understand you correctly, the options on the lower right in the Layout section are not generic to WordPress? In other words, with some themes, I might have completely different Layout options/appearance possibilities – even without choosing a different page template from the Page Template drop-down ?

    That is basically correct.

    All themes handle layouts differently. I generally like when it’s handled in the Page Attributes > Template dropdown, but I’ve seen it handled many different ways.

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