Page Template Settings

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Page Template Settings change the layout of the pages that you do not edit one by one: the blog page, search results, archives, the WooCommerce Shop page and the 404 page. Go to AppearanceCustomizePage Template Settings.

The Page Template Settings panel listing the blog, archive and WooCommerce templates

To change one page, post or project, use the Page Settings box instead.

Sections

The panel has a section for each of these templates, post types and taxonomies:

  • Blog Page: The page set as Posts page at SettingsReading, or the home page when it shows your latest posts.
  • Search Results
  • Date Archives
  • Author Archives
  • Not Found: The 404 page.
  • Type: {name}: One section for each public post type that has an archive, for example Type: Products for the WooCommerce Shop page.
  • Taxonomy: {name}: One section for each public, publicly queryable taxonomy, for example Taxonomy: Categories, Taxonomy: Tags or Taxonomy: Product categories.

The sections that show depend on your plugins. A plugin that adds a public post type with an archive, or a public, publicly queryable taxonomy, adds a section here.

Settings

Each section has the settings of the Page Settings box, except Page Featured Image. See Page Settings for what each one does:

  • Page Layout: Default, No Sidebar, Full Width, Full Width, With Sidebar or Stripped
  • Menu Position: Default or Overlaps Content
  • Page Title, which shows the archive, search or blog page heading
  • Masthead Bottom Margin
  • Footer Top Margin
  • Hide Masthead
  • Hide Footer Widgets

By default, Page Layout and Menu Position are set to Default, the title and both margins are on, and nothing is hidden. The exception is Blog Page, where Page Title is off. Page Featured Image is missing here because it is for single pages only.

Examples

  • To remove the sidebar from the WooCommerce Shop page, set Page Layout in Type: Products to No Sidebar.
  • To show a heading on your blog page, tick Page Title in Blog Page. North shows the name of your Posts page, or your site title when the home page shows your latest posts.
  • To widen the search results page, set Page Layout in Search Results to Full Width.

The preview reloads after each change. To see a section’s result, open a page of that type in the preview, then click Publish to save.

Which Settings a Page Uses

  • The Posts page and the Shop page ignore their own Page settings box. Use the Blog Page and Type: Products sections.
  • A page that shows posts with a widget, for example the Post Loop Widget in Page Builder, is still a page. It uses its own Page settings box.
  • To change the defaults with code, use the siteorigin_page_settings_defaults filter. See Advanced Customizations.