A template decides the layout of a page: whether it has a sidebar, a left-hand navigation, a contents list, or a special purpose such as listing news or staff. You choose a template for each page in the Page Attributes box of the Classic Editor. The steps are in Change a page layout. This page lists every template the Govintra theme offers, using the names you see in the dropdown.
All templates are always listed, even when the module they rely on is switched off in Options, then Modules. A listing template for a module that is off shows an empty page, so switch the module on first: see Module settings and options.
General layouts for any page
- Default template: the page content on the left, two thirds of the width, with a right-hand column for anything typed in the page’s Sidebar box and for widgets placed in the Page Sidebar widget area. This is what a new page uses.
- Full-width page: the content across the whole width with no sidebar. Suits wide tables, dashboards and landing pages. Also available for tasks.
- Page with left navigation: a left-hand column that lists the page’s parent, its child pages and, deeper down, its sibling pages, with a right-hand column for the Sidebar box and widgets. Content takes the middle half.
- Page with left navigation (wide): the same left-hand navigation with no right-hand column, so the content takes three quarters of the width.
- Long page: a sticky contents list on the left, built from the H2 and H3 headings in the content, that follows the reader down the page. Also available for tasks.
The homepage and dashboard-style pages
- Home page: five widget areas arranged as a full-width strip, a left column, a hero area and two smaller columns, plus an emergency message and a campaign message. Use it for the page set as your front page.
- Aggregator page: a homepage-style grid of columns that you fill with blocks of news, blog posts, tasks, events, documents, links, team members, galleries and free-format content. Designed for team and department pages.
- Comms hub: a communications dashboard showing news, blog posts and news updates in bands or beside a widget sidebar.
- Hashtags: a grid of cards for everything carrying one chosen tag, with hand-picked highlight pages spread through it. Good for campaigns and themes that cut across content types.
- Signpost: the page content followed by two, three or four rich-text sections side by side. A simple way to point people at several places from one page.
- About page: the page’s child pages shown as a grid of cards with their featured images, in three or four columns.
Listing templates for each kind of content
Each of these needs its module switched on. Most intranets have one page for each.
- News listing: news stories, newest first, with paging and a filter by news type.
- News updates listing: the shorter news updates, with a filter by update type.
- Blog listing: blog posts, newest first, with a filter by blog category.
- How do I?: the task finder, with a search box, the task categories and a tag cloud, in a standard or a coloured grid layout.
- Events listing: upcoming events with a filter by category and an optional switch to past events.
- Vacancies listing: current vacancies, hiding any whose closing date and time have passed, with search and grade filters.
- Projects listing: all projects.
- Training courses: the training catalogue, with search, browsing by category and tag, and an A to Z.
- Staff directory: search for colleagues, browse by team or by initial, and sort by name.
- Teams: every team in a collapsible hierarchy, with sub-teams nested under their parents.
- Jargon buster: the glossary, with a sticky A to Z bar and definitions that expand.
- Wonderwall and Wonderwall Form: the recognition wall of award cards, and the form staff use to add to it.
Templates added by plugins
These only appear in the dropdown when the plugin is active. See Available plugins.
- Media A to Z and Document finder: from the Govintra Media A to Z plugin, for browsing the documents in the media library by letter, category and document type. See Enable the Document Finder and Media A to Z.
- Timeline: from the Govintra Timelines plugin, for a dated sequence of milestones.
Templates for tasks
Tasks have their own layout: the content with a sidebar showing related content, the task’s categories and tags, and any widgets in the Task Sidebar widget area. The task edit screen offers two alternatives in its Page Attributes box: Full-width page and Long page. The other templates are for pages only. News stories, blog posts, events and the other content types have no template choice.