Page Settings

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The Page settings box changes the layout of one page, post or Jetpack Portfolio project. Use it to remove the sidebar, widen the content, hide the title, or remove the header or the footer widgets for a landing page.

Find the Page Settings Box

Unwind adds the box to pages, posts and, when Jetpack Portfolio is active, projects. Open the item in the editor and follow the route for your editor.

Block Editor

  1. Click the Settings icon at the top right to open the sidebar.
  2. Select the Page tab (Post for a post).
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the tab and open the Page settings panel.

If the panel is not there, open the Options menu (three dots) and choose Preferences. In the General tab, scroll to Advanced and turn Page settings on.

The Page Settings panel in the Block Editor sidebar

Classic Editor

The Page settings box is in the right column. If you do not see it, click Screen Options at the top of the screen and tick Page settings. Pages that you build with Page Builder in the Classic Editor use this route.

The Page settings box beside a Page Builder layout in the Classic Editor

Save or update the page to apply your changes.

Settings

A new page uses the Default layout, and every checkbox is on, so the page shows its title, both margins, the header and the footer widgets. Each checkbox has the label Enable next to it; the setting name is above it.

Page Layout
Choose how the page uses the sidebar and the screen width. Default: Default.

  • Default: Shows the page title, the content and the Sidebar widget area.
  • No Sidebar: Shows the page title and the content without the sidebar.
  • Full Width: Removes the sidebar and lets the content area use the full width of the screen.
  • Full Width, With Sidebar: Keeps the sidebar and lets the content area and sidebar use the full width of the screen.

The sidebar only shows when the Sidebar widget area has widgets, and you choose its side with Main Sidebar Position in Layout. The full width layouts keep a small space at the left and right edges of the screen.

Page Title
Clear Enable to hide the title. On a post, only the title goes; the date, categories and comment link above it still show when they are on in Blog. Default: on.

Header Bottom Margin
Clear Enable to remove the space between the header and the content. Use it when a banner or slider at the top of the page must touch the menu. The size of this space is Bottom Margin in Header (default 80px). Default: on.

Pages Without the Box

Some pages take their layout from a Customizer section, and their own Page settings box has no effect:

  • The page you choose as Posts page at SettingsReading uses the Blog Page section.
  • The WooCommerce Shop page has no box and uses the Type: Products section.
  • Archives, search results and the 404 page use their own sections.

Set them at AppearanceCustomizePage Template Settings. See Page Template Settings.

Change the Defaults

To give every new page a different default, for example No Sidebar, use the siteorigin_page_settings_defaults filter. A page saved with its own settings keeps them. See Advanced Customizations.

When the Page Builder Home Page screen at AppearanceHome Page creates your home page, Unwind sets its Page Layout to No Sidebar and turns Page Title off.

Body Classes

Unwind adds classes to the body tag for the layout and the margins, so you can target one layout in your own CSS:

  • page-layout-{layout}, for example page-layout-no-sidebar or page-layout-full-width-sidebar
  • page-layout-no-masthead-margin when Header Bottom Margin is off
  • page-layout-no-footer-margin when Footer Top Margin is off

See CSS Snippets for examples of custom CSS.