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Overview: Page templates

In Sitefinity CMS, you create layout templates (not website templates) either by using Sitefinity CMS Layout editor or by using master pages.

You manage templates on Templates page.
To open the page, in the main menu, click Design » Page Templates.

NOTE: you can create personalized version of each page. Personalizing a page gives you the opportunity to serve different content to different types of users (user segments). You can build set of rules on which the user segments are based.
For more information, see Create a personalized version of a page.

You can also use Sitefinity CMS Thunder to manage themes and templates. For more information, see Thunder: Website templates and themes.

For more information about setting templates through the code, see For developers: Apply page templates.

For more information about custom themes and templates, see Tutorial: Style your website with custom themes and templates.
This section contains:
  • Apply page templates
    Create a layout that helps the display of content. For example, allocate space for the navigation, the title, and the content blocks. To do this, you use predefined or custom templates, which you can modify if needed.
  • Website templates file structure
    Sitefinity uses specific structure for organizing the templates and the themes for the backend and the frontend.
  • Create a template using the Layout editor
    Use Sitefinity built-in layouts or create new layouts through the Layout editor. Start from scratch or build a layout template based on already prepared one.
  • Create a template using a Master page
    Use ASP.NET Master Pages to add consistent layout in case you need more complex HTML layout or you need logic in code-behind files.
  • Sort and filter page templates in the backend
    Sort and filter page templates alphabetically, by ownership, by date the template was last modified, or by a custom filtering.
  • For developers: Page templates
    Use Sitefinity native and fluent APIs to perform common tasks and CRUD operations related to page templates.

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