In Drupal 6, you can select different Page Templates for a Page Node by using modules like: Node Page Template (http://drupal.org/project/node_page) or Custom Node Template (http://drupal.org/project/custom_node_template) [for Node Templates]. The Node Page Template module allows users to the back-end to easily select from a drop-down different Page Templates associated with a node.
There's literally about 1000+ threads in this forum with people asking how to accomplish this in D6 and D5. How is something as fundamental as this being overlooked in core? I understand you can have multiple page templates hard-coded in the filename of the page template on a per node or per node-type basis (http://drupal.org/node/1089656). But where is the flexibility in that? Maybe I'm asking for a more obscure feature then I think, but how are people jumping from a one-column layout, two-column layout, three-column layout, etc. for a Basic page?
How can this be accomplished in Drupal 7 to allow users the flexibility to choose between Page Templates when they create say a Basic page?
I've seen suggestions to use the following modules, but no posts backing up how to do it:
- Context Layers
- Panels
- ThemeKey
Thanks for any help or assistance on how to accomplish this.
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