Create Custom Page Layout in SharePoint 2013

Introduction

As well know about page layout in SharePoint. Now i am going to give steps to create custom page layout.

Design Manager

We will use design manager to create page layout.  Here is the steps

• Site Settings -> Design Manager
• Click Edit Page Layouts
• Click Create a page Layout

• Give name for page layout ,masterpage to inherit and content type of page

• Click Ok
• New page layout will be displayed in Master Page Gallery and Edit Page Layout page

The page layout is in draft state by default. It will not display in page layout dropdown if it is in draft mode. We have to change this as publish version. Then only page will be displayed.

For making changes to page, we have to change the .html file. Download the .html file and make the changes. upload again in master gallery.

Then, Go to Pages Library. Click Pages in New Document Menu

We can find our custom page in page layout section.

Cannot rename old site on restore

Some of us may face this "Cannot rename old site on restore" error while restoring Site in SharePoint. There may several reason to get this type of error. I am going to say about one of the reason to get this error. 

That's Long URL problem with Libraries and List attachments. Some of the URL can't be restored due to long URL. Here is the steps to find those long URL items.

• Open the Content Database in SQL
• Right click the DB and select New Query
• Paste the below query

    SELECT

   CONCAT([DirName], N'/', [LeafName]) AS [FullRelativePath],

   LEN(CONCAT([DirName], N'/', [LeafName])) AS [Length]

    FROM

   [dbo].[AllDocs]

    ORDER BY

    [Length] DESC

• We will get the Long URL Libraries and List items
• Then go to that library / list
• Delete the Library / List from site. It will be in Recycle bin. No need to worry about that
• Then take new backup of your site and try to restore it
• Restore the deleted library / list from recycle bin once site has been restored successfully