Full width Cornerstone template content inserted in new page becomes boxed

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#1

I am trying to create an exact duplicate of a page so I can experiment on a draft instead of editing the live page.

I created a new page in Wordpress and opened it for editing in Cornerstone. I loaded a template of a full page I saved earlier. The original page was full width, but inserting the entire page content from the template resulted in a boxed layout, with the content inside the content area (i.e. the entire page was squeezed into a much narrower layout). What gives…?

The other, possibly stupid question (I actually searched but didn’t find an answer to this): How do I create a new page and edit it in Cornerstone? The only way I found was to exit to the Wordpress dashboard, create a new page there and then use the “Edit in Cornerstone” option there. If I go to the Content tab of X Theme, my pages are listed but I don’t see any option to create a new one there.

#2

Hi There,

I couldn’t replicate this issue on my end.

It might be the caching issue, do you have any cache plugins installed?

Please disabled all of them then check again.

I often create a new page then click on the Edit Cornerstone tab after that click on the Edit With Cornerstone button:

Regards!

#3

Hi,

I have no caching plugins installed (in the site building phase). So that’s definitely not what’s happening. Any other ideas what may be causing it?

I don’t understand your reply to my other question (How do I create a new page and edit it in Cornerstone?). You showed me what I said I am doing currently (creating the page in the WordPress UI and then using the Edit in Cornerstone button there). I know how to do that, that’s what I’m doing. My question is, is there a way to create a new page without leaving Cornerstone? I expected that it would have such functionality since it has a list of all pages - is there really no way to add a new one inside Cornerstone? Cornerstone is a page editor, just like Word is a document editor. Word doesn’t tell you to go to another app, create a new document and then “Edit it in Word”.

If Cornerstone doesn’t have this functionality (creating new pages), then please take this as a feature recommendation.

And by the way, I think it would be a great idea to also add duplicating/cloning pages. It is an extremely useful feature since most new pages on a website will be based on the same template. I know you can create the page and then add the template, but consider this:

Current steps to “clone” a page

  1. Go to existing page
  2. Click on Save Template
  3. Name template
  4. Click to save
  5. Exit to WP Dashboard
  6. Click on Pages -> Add New
  7. Click Edit in Cornerstone
  8. Click on Load template
  9. Select template
  10. Click OK.

Compare this to what I’m recommending:

  1. Go to existing page
  2. Click “Duplicate”
  3. Give it a name
  4. Click OK to save.

4 steps instead of the current 10.

I think there are many, many users who would agree that this would be a HUGE improvement in the process of creating a new site.

#4

HI Robert,

Thanks for writing in!

For your first issue, can you please check your page template? It should be set as no container Hear | footer. If not please change the template to make the page full width.
Just open the page in cornerstone and click on the Setting icon in left.

In the page setting please change the template.

Hope that fixes your page full-width issue.

Regarding your next question, there is no such option to create the new page in the cornerstone, you have to follow the WordPress way to create the new page.

Regarding the duplicating a page, you can use third-party plugins to duplicate page.
Check this plugin it might help. https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-page/ .

We will look on to your suggestion for future development.

Thanks

#5

Thank you - that was it. The default template was selected automatically when I created the page and your recommendation fixed the problem.

#6

You’re welcome. Glad we could help.

#7

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