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title: Using unique page templates for each language
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-portal-engine/creating-portal-engine-page-templates.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

When creating a new language version of a page, you usually only edit the original page on the level of page content, i.e. translate the text on the **Page** or **Form** tabs of the **Pages** application. However, you can also make major changes to the basic layout and design of each culture version by using a different page template. By default, pages share the same page template for all of their language versions.

The following steps demonstrate how to assign a unique page template to a specific language version of a page and then modify it as required.

> **Warning:** **Prerequisite**: You first need to [set up multiple cultures for the website](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites.md#setting-up-multiple-cultures-for-websites).

1. Open the **Pages** application (the example uses the sample Corporate site).
2. Select the **Home** page in the content tree and make sure you are in **Edit** mode.
3. Switch to the **Properties -> Template** tab.
4. Choose the **Each culture version uses its own page template** option for the page.
5. Click **Save**.

![Configuring a page to use a separate page template for each culture](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/using-unique-page-templates-for-each-language/Page_Template_Cultures.png "Configuring a page to use a separate page template for each culture")

This setting is shared between all versions of the page, so it is not important which language is currently selected.

Create the Home page in the chosen language, for example French:

1. Switch to the French language using the selector below the content tree.
2. Select **Copy content from another language** and **English - United States**.
3. Click **Create page**.

The system creates the page and switches you back to the Template tab, but this time for the French language version of the page.

Now you can create a page template for the specific language:

1. Click **Clone template as ad‑hoc**.

   - This creates a separate copy of the current Home page template and assigns it to the French version of the page.
   - You can now change the design of the French page without affecting the other language versions.

> **Info:** Cloning the template used by the default culture version provides a convenient starting point from which you can quickly make modifications, but it is also possible to select a completely different template if necessary.

2. Switch to the page's **Design** tab.
3. [Add](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md) an **Editable text** web part into the **Actions zone**.
4. Switch to the **Page** tab. Notice there is an additional editable region.
5. Cut the header text from the bottom region and paste it into the new empty region.
6. Click **Save** to confirm the change.

You can now sign out and view the Home page in the French language. The header text is now aligned on the left and placed above the remaining content.

![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/using-unique-page-templates-for-each-language/Culture_Template_Result.png)

If you switch to English, the page is unchanged, because it still uses the original template.

This is only a simple example of a modification that can be done when the language version has a separate page template. There are many other possibilities, such as setting different properties for web parts or editing the overall layout of the page.