page_layout variable

Hi,

You might have already noticed that the class is injected at the template level.

It includes the first part, which is hard-coded inside each template, and the variable <$mt:Var name="page_layout"$>.

That variable could be changed if you select a theme from:
Design -> Styles

And then choosing one of the layout variations available on that feed.

Alternatively, you could overwrite the page_layout variable at the template level.

More details about that variable could be found at:
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/creating-themes-for-movable-type.html
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/mt4-main-index-default-template-flattened.html

See how you could use a parameter called "default" to make sure unless a page_layout is chosen a specific default one is used.

You could also overwrite the page_layout by adding at the top of a template a variable like this:

<mt:SetVar name="page_layout" value="layout-wtt">

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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Thanks man. All is clear now.

I notice one more thing which might be confusing regarding Designer's work. Creating new stylesheet Index Template and including it via <MTLink Template="my-style.css"> from styles.css works nice. However when I switch to a different theme my-style.css changes removing my css code. In that point both files look similar meaning that both include blog.css and appropriate theme css file.
my-style.css overrides style.css so viewing page it looks fine but viewing source and listing css files which are loaded doesn't look that well. Not optimised.

Additionaly when I create third css file and include it to the second one in the same way I did previously with the my-style.css the theme switching changes second file, not third. In this case reference to third file from second file is erased.

Is this the way how it was planned to work? Just curious because this behaviour doesn't look consistent. At least at my MT knowledge level :)
I'm using MT4, no idea about MT5.

Thanks again for the clarification and help :-)

You're welcome!

If you want to customize your website CSS, I would recommend you to use this plugin:
http://www.majordojo.com/projects/movable-type/custom-css/

Rather than changing the stylesheet supplied with MT.

Why?

Because unless you keep local backups of the changes you are making to your project stylesheet, you might loose your customization when resetting the project theme.

Thanks for the plugin hint :)

You're welcome Zielun!