Learn Creation Of Templates, Document Types And Content Page In Umbraco CMS

Introduction

Welcome to the "Learn Umbraco CMS" article series. This article is Part 2 of the series. We will see how to create templates, Document Types, and Content Pages in Umbraco CMS.

This article starts with the concept of Umbraco cms and its various components. The previous article provided an introduction to Umbraco CMS and Installation and hosting of the same that you can get from here.

Learn Umbraco Installation And Hosting On Local IIS

Create Templates

Step 1

First, let's delete all the default content files

Learn Creation Of Templates, Document TYpes And Content Page In Umbraco CMS

After deleting we can see the output as below

Step 2

Let's create the template as below. Click on Templates and click on create

Input the name you prefer and click on save

Create view Home under the template and click on save

Step 3

Now let's create a Document Type and select the template

Click on Templates and select Home as default template as below

Select the icon and color as below

Step 4

Now let's copy and paste all the assets which we have downloaded to the main solution as below

Enable the permissions in document type to all the editors as below

Step 5

Now let's create a content page click in content and select Home

Type Home and click on save and publish

Open umbraco.local we can see the new template in action as below,

Summary

In this article, we have learned how to create Templates, Document Types and Content Type in Umbraco CMS. In future articles, we will understand more about Master Template in Umbraco cms. I hope you have liked this.