Have you ever wanted to reuse a sub-layout in multiple pages or templates?  Well now you can.

• You can re-use the same sub-layout in many templates/pages without having to duplicate your layout content.
• Change the reusable sub-layout once and see the changes reflected everywhere its used. 
• Perfect for blocks of informations common to many pages such as author profiles etc.

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Create Disabled Article Template

Create a single template that can be marked as disabled. This will be the container for all your reusable sub-layouts.

Create Wrapper Template

Create SubLayout And Mark Reusable

We now create a sublayout in our disabled layouts container template. Make sure to mark it as a 'reusable sublayout'

Create SubLayout And Mark Reusable

Create Group of SubLayouts

It can be helpful to group your sublayouts. Here we are creating and author and creation date icon.

Name SubLayout and Set Source

Set Dynamic Data Source

The CRITICAL thing to remember at this stage is to set the Dynamic Content source. By doing this at the group of sublayouts level our individual sublayouts can inherit the data source which allows us to apply some magic later.

Name SubLayout and Set Source

Name SubLayout and Set Source

Create your sublayouts and give the reusable sublayout a meaningful name (we'll use it later to select it) and set the data source to 'Parent'. Now, whenever this layout is reused it will pick up the parent data source of where it is insert.ed

Name SubLayout and Set Source

Edit the SubLayout

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Add the elements you want in your reused sub-layouts. In our screenshot we have created a little 'author information' block and a date icon to represent the created date. Don't forget to mark your sublayout as 'reusable;.

Edit the SubLayout

Insert Reusable SubLayout in Another Template

When editing a template insert a reusable layout element and choose the one you want to reuse. There is no need to set the data source it will pick up the parent settings from the source layout but applied in this new context.

Insert Reusable SubLayout in Another Template or Page

Insert Reusable SubLayout In a Page

When editing page insert a reusable layout element and choose the one you want to reuse. This time you DO NEED TO to set the data source as a parent data source makes no sense in the context of a single page.

Insert Reusable SubLayout In a Page

Set Dynamic Content Source to Article

Set the data source to 'article' - adding a name is always helpful.

Set Dynamic Content Source to Article

A Little Quirk

Seeting the data source on the sublayut makes YOOtheme think is needs a dynamic value set - otherwise you will get a red warning mark. Simply choose any dynamic source field for the undisplayed field below the reusable layout selector (It doesn't get displayed anywhere!).

A Little Quirk