Different home page from rest of site pages django cms

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I'm totally new to django CMS (started 2 days ago) and I've followed the tutorial that Divio provides.

I have the home page totally working and it's great and all. I'm trying to create the rest of the pages now and I'm confused.

In my templates directory, I have a base.html that has the general layout of the site and a block for content.

Then I have content.html which puts the home page code into the content block.

page-content.html is where I have the code in the content block for every other page on my site.

My problem is, that whenever I add a new page on my site with the django CMS toolbar, it's always using the content.html page. Basically, when I click the Add a Page button, it only adds a page that looks exactly like the home page. I want to have my home page be one layout and then every page from there be a different layout, so that when I click Add a Page it lets me add a second type of layout. Is this possible?

Note: Both the home and the other layouts are fine as a page. They aren't really news-blog pages or anything like that. Just a regular page that I can put different CMS plugins on is perfect.

Please just let me know if you need more info to properly answer! :)

base.html

    {% load staticfiles i18n cms_tags sekizai_tags menu_tags %}


  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    
        {% block title %}
            {% page_attribute "page_title" %} - {{ request.site.name }}
        {% endblock title %}
    


    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    

    
    

    
    
    


    
    {% render_block "css" %}

    
    {{ ALDRYN_SNAKE.render_head }}


    
    {% if request.toolbar %}
        
    {% endif %}

    

    

    
    {% cms_toolbar %}

    
    
        
            
            
                
                {{ request.site.name }}
            

            
            
                
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    {% block content %}

    {% endblock %}
    

    
    
        
            
                
                    {% placeholder "address" %}
                
                
                    
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    {% render_block "js" %}

    
    {{ ALDRYN_SNAKE.render_tail }}

content.html

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load cms_tags %}


{% block content %}
    
    
      
        
          
            
              {% placeholder "banner title" %}
              {% placeholder "banner subtitle" %}
            
          
          
            
              {% placeholder "banner introduction" %}
            
          
        

      

    


    

      
        
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{% endblock content %}

page-content.html

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load cms_tags %}


{% block content %}

    
        

            

                
                
                    
                        
                    
                    
                        
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                {% placeholder "page title" %}
                {% placeholder "page subtitle" %}

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                {% placeholder "purpose" %}

                
                    {% include "page-elements/tools_templates.html" %}
                
                
                    {% include "page-elements/helpful_resources.html" %}
                
                
                    {% include "page-elements/publications.html" %}
                
            
        

    
 

{% endblock content %}

My project structure is as follows:

e-beth · Accepted Answer

The issue was actually in the settings.py file.

According to the documentation, templates need to be specified in the CMS_TEMPLATES within settings.py
(http://docs.django-cms.org/en/release-3.4.x/introduction/templates_placeholders.html#templates)

My original settings.py file did not have any CMS_TEMPLATES in it.

Original settings.py file:

INSTALLED_ADDONS = [
    #   # Warning: text inside the INSTALLED_ADDONS tags is auto-generated. Manual changes will be overwritten.
    'aldryn-addons',
    'aldryn-django',
    'aldryn-sso',
    'aldryn-django-cms',
    'aldryn-devsync',
    'aldryn-bootstrap3',
    'djangocms-googlemap',
    'djangocms-history',
    'djangocms-snippet',
    'djangocms-style',
    'djangocms-text-ckeditor',
    'djangocms-video',
    'django-filer',
    # 
]

import aldryn_addons.settings
aldryn_addons.settings.load(locals())


# all django settings can be altered here

INSTALLED_APPS.extend([
    # add your project specific apps here
])

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.extend([
    # add your own middlewares here
])

Edited settings.py file:

INSTALLED_ADDONS = [
    #   # Warning: text inside the INSTALLED_ADDONS tags is auto-generated. Manual changes will be overwritten.
    'aldryn-addons',
    'aldryn-django',
    'aldryn-sso',
    'aldryn-django-cms',
    'aldryn-devsync',
    'aldryn-bootstrap3',
    'djangocms-googlemap',
    'djangocms-history',
    'djangocms-snippet',
    'djangocms-style',
    'djangocms-text-ckeditor',
    'djangocms-video',
    'django-filer',
    # 
]

import aldryn_addons.settings
aldryn_addons.settings.load(locals())


# all django settings can be altered here

INSTALLED_APPS.extend([
    # add your project specific apps here
])

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.extend([
    # add your own middlewares here
])

CMS_TEMPLATES = (
    ('content.html', 'Home Page'),
    ('page-content.html', 'Section Page'),
    ('sub-section-page.html', 'Sub Section Page'),
)

Once the templates are specified in the settings.py file, they are available in the CMS Toolbar from Page > Templates.

Different home page from rest of site pages django cms

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