Site Pages, which page layout is used? and where are they?

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We have several site pages that seems to be based on the Wiki Page. As far as we understand, every page in our site is based on the Master Page, a Page Layout and the Page itself.
Please correct us should this be wrong :)

The site pages shows their page title as the Name (aka filename) property. We need the site pages to show the Title property, thus may need to correct the Page Layout.

How do we identify the Page Layout being used and where is it located?

Kind regards, John

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

Just my two cents for the following statement: "As far as we understand, every page in our site is based on the Master Page, a Page Layout and the Page itself." This is not actually true for Wiki Pages...it's true for Publishing pages that allow to change the layout easily as described by Paul...however, for Wiki pages I believe this is not possible because they are not using actually a page layout

deleted · Answer

If you would open the page in SharePoint designer and go to advanced mode you will end up in the correct Page Layout

But be aware you are changing it for every body who uses the page layout best practice would be to make a copy of the Layout in a new pagelayout and use that one so it does not interfer with default page layouts pushed by MS.

Kr,

Paul

john aage andersen · Answer

Thanks Paul&nbsp;In Sharepoint Designer, in Site Pages, located the page "SD-team.aspx", in the file settings it states "This file is based on a file from the site's definition". Thus this file/page should be based on a Page Layout.&nbsp;Using right-click to open the context menu, I see the option "Edit File in Advanced Mode" - is that the one you mean?&nbsp;Using the option open the file/page in the Editor, showing the code. In the code I can read a namespace "Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" - does that mean that this file/page is based on the Web Part Page Layout?&nbsp;Still not able to see any Page Layout with a name like that in any of the site locations/folders?&nbsp;Would it be possible for you to show the steps to identify the Page Layout and where it is located?&nbsp;Kind regards, John

deleted · Answer

Hi John,&nbsp;looked a bit more i guess this blog is &nbsp;a good start point.https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaevans/2011/04/02/page-layouts-in-sharepoint/&nbsp;If you go to this link&nbsp;https://tennant.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspxyou can browse to the masterpage gallery and see which pagelayouts there are to edit/copy and edityou can also see how many contenttypes are connected to different pagelayouts.

john aage andersen · Answer

Thanks again PaulThe information doesn't really helps me. SharePoint 2010 is way to different from SharePoint Online!&nbsp;The sitemanager just shows the list of page layouts. But none of those are associated with the page for which I need to modify the page layout. I did try to modify all of them, but none of them affects the page! Reverted all changes :)&nbsp;In the Site Pages library, when I want to create a new page, a Wiki Page, it uses a specific template from the Wiki Page content type "/_layouts/15/CreateWebPage.aspx".I have no idea what this file does, which page layout it actually uses and how to change it or find whatever page layout I need to change. The location also cannot be opened!&nbsp;Thanks again, I do hope someone has the information :)John&nbsp;&nbsp;

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