Page Layout Options
- Guillaume Molter
Before hiding or disabling UI elements, please consider that these features are important to some users, and disabling them may result in a degraded navigation experience. We encourage publishers to use this feature cautiously.
The Page Layout Options feature allows editors to show and hide different user interface (UI) elements on the intranet to create dynamic layouts that better meet the needs of various use cases at the School.
Table of contents:
Show Main Navigation Menu
This feature is intended to be used to create landing pages or micro-sites in combination with the Table of Content feature.
By default the navigation menu is displayed on all pages for authenticated users and hidden for unauthenticated users on public pages. By unchecking this option you will hide the navigation menu for everyone on this page.
 When the main navigation is displayed
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Show Breadcrumbs
By default breadcrumbs are showed on all pages
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Show Sidebar
On content heavy pages, it might be beneficial to hide the sidebar to allow users to focus on the main content of the page without being distracted. It can also be useful to benefit of the full width of the page for large graphics or tables.
By default the left sidebar with widgets is displayed on most pages/posts/... This option allows you to hide the sidebar on this specific content.
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Show Table of Content
For complex intranet sites with a lot of pages and multiple levels of nested content, this feature allows you to keep the top navigation clean and simple by offering a second level of navigation for the current section of content.
The table of content contains links to parent, sibling and children pages.
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Enabling this feature on your site
This feature is disabled by default, and must be activated by visiting WordPress Admin > Settings > Intranet Site Settings and by setting the “Enable additional page layout options” setting to “on.
Please note that once enabled, by default the table of content of content will displayed on all pages and must be disabled on every page you don’t want it to be displayed.
Organizing and ordering the table of contents
The table of content contains links to parent, sibling and children pages. Relationships between pages are created by using the Page Attributes > Parent setting when editing a page. When editing a page you can define with other page is the “parent” page of the page you are currently editing. In other words you page you are editing will become a sub-page of the one you select in this menu and will appear nested under it in the Table of Contents.
A page with no parent (often referred to as top level page) will create a new section of content and will be at the top of its own separate table of contents.
By default pages are sorted alphabetically in the table of contents but the order can be changed using the Page Attributes > Order setting while editing a page. By default all pages have an order of 0 which will make them appear at the top of the list. Higher number will make them appear lower in the list.
Tip: Use the “quick edit” feature when viewing the list of pages in the WordPress administration to quickly change the order on multiple pages.
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