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SharePoint 2016 Step by Step: Custom Layout Without using designer or Design Manager

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This article is a to ensure how to create a simple SharePoint 2016 Page layout without using

  • Share Point designer
  • Design Manager

Before doing anything you need to create the base of the layout.

Following placeholders are minimal and commonly used in any template.

 

Place Holders

PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead

This place holder is used to defined additional CSS and other scripts and inline CSS if you have any.

We will be using this to register a CSS and register a different CSS for the SharePoint Edit Mode

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
<!—Your code goes here-->
</asp:Content>

PlaceHolderPageTitle

This place holder will be mainly for the page title.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<!—Your code goes here-->
</asp:Content>

PlaceHolderMain

This is the main section for your temple. here you can define web part zones or any other HTML code segments such as Bootstrap or static HTML as you want.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<!—Your code goes here-->
</asp:Content>

Base Template

Adding standard SharePoint controls, you can make your base template as follows.

<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
</asp:Content>

Extend your Template

PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead

First, add general CSS registration to this section

<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>

Then I'm going to define a CSS for EDIT mode, this will be really needful when you are hiding some tags when not in the Edit Mode.

<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/editmode15.css %>"
After="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>

then you will need to add other scripts or CSS formatting if necessary.

<style type="text/css">
<!-- Styles -->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
// your code
</script>

Finally, you will have your AdditionalPageHead as below.

AdditionalPageHead

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/editmode15.css %>"
After="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
<style type="text/css">
<!-- Styles -->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
// your code
 
</script>
</asp:Content>

PlaceHolderPageTitle

just adding the SharePoint Page Title here.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue FieldName="Title" runat="server"/> 
</asp:Content>

PlaceHolderMain

Here goes with one web part zone for simplicity.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" Title="Top Left" ID="TopLeftZone"><ZoneTemplate></ZoneTemplate></WebPartPages:WebPartZone>
</asp:Content>

Final Template

<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server">
<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/editmode15.css %>"
After="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
<style type="text/css">
<!-- Styles -->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
// your code
</script>
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue FieldName="Title" runat="server"/> 
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" Title="Top Left" ID="TopLeftZone"><ZoneTemplate></ZoneTemplate></WebPartPages:WebPartZone>
</asp:Content>

Copy this template to a file samplepage.aspx

Upload the Content Template

First, Navigate to Site Settings

Then find the Web Designer Galleries and go to Mater Pages and page Layouts

Then upload the document and choose the file that you have saved previously.

Then, you need to choose the correct content type.

It should be PageLayout and you can map with any content type.  For example, it will be mapped with an article page.

After that, Save the page and don’ forget to publish the page.

Now we are ready to use the new page layout.

Go to the Pages Library and try to create a New Page. You will see your content type listed there.