Creating new page templates

Apostrophe offers a choice of page templates to the user when adding a page via the "Pages" menu. Adding a new one is straightforward. Just copy the default.html template in the views/pages folder. Let's assume you call your template myPage.html.

Next, edit app.js. This file is the entry point for your project. It consists mostly of options to be passed to apostrophe-site, a convenient way of configuring an Apostrophe-powered website.

Look for the pages option, and the types option nested within that:

pages: {
  types: [
    { name: 'default', label: 'Default (Two Column)' },
    { name: 'onecolumn', label: 'One Column' },
    { name: 'marquee', label: 'Marquee' },
    { name: 'home', label: 'Home Page' },
    { name: 'blog', label: 'Blog' },
    { name: 'map', label: 'Map' },
    { name: 'sections', label: 'Sections' }
  ]
},

You can add a new entry like this:

pages: {
  types: [
    { name: 'default', label: 'Default (Two Column)' },
    { name: 'onecolumn', label: 'One Column' },
    { name: 'marquee', label: 'Marquee' },
    { name: 'home', label: 'Home Page' },
    { name: 'blog', label: 'Blog' },
    { name: 'map', label: 'Map' },
    { name: 'sections', label: 'Sections' },
    { name: 'myPage', label: 'My Page' }
  ]
},

As usual you'll need to restart the app or use nodemon to do it automatically.

Now you'll find that "My Page" is an option when adding a new page via the "Page" menu. You can also switch an existing page to the "My Page" type via "Page Settings."