topic Re: Creating Templates from Pages in CMS Development

Creating Templates from Pages

mjuozokas — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:50:09 GMT

The theme a developer created for us has multiple web page templates. Using them as a starting place for the website drag-and-drop builder, the content I've added has changed them quite a bit. To the point where I have to clone pages now and use them as pseudo-templates because the original templates require a lot of editing when creating a new page.

I can save sections in the drag-and-drop editor, but it isn't ideal because if I want to make a fundamental change that affects each page using that base template, I can't. I have to update every page using the saved sections.

So, is it possible to create new templates from existing web pages, can I save web pages as templates, or is there some type of workaround that isn't too complicated in Design Tools? I'm not a developer, but I'm familiar with some very basic stuff.

Thank you.

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

Jnix284 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:06:37 GMT

Hi @mjuozokas this is actually really easy to do with the developer tools.

In your page editor for the page you've built with the new sections, you can enter developer mode to access the HubL you need to update the coded template.

You will add this to the end of the URL from the page editor:

?developerMode=true

Then you can click the same place where you save a section and choose Copy as HubL instead:

The code that is copied can be used to replace the code from the same section in your coded template or you can clone your coded templates to make alternate versions according to your new page designs.

I'm happy to help if you have questions about updating the template code.

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

mjuozokas — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:43:14 GMT

This is immensely helpful - I just tried it on a test page. Thank you!

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

Jnix284 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:23:24 GMT

You're welcome @mjuozokas, I'm glad you were able to test it out already!

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

PowerFilmSolar — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:36:47 GMT

I have the same issue, but the copied HUBL does not render correctly once passed into the coded template. Can you assist?

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

Jnix284 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:46:39 GMT

@PowerFilmSolar if you used an existing module on the page from the template and then made changes, the copy hubL will only copy the changes so the code is incomplete. If you want to copy the hubL you need to drag the module to the page as a new module and configure all of the settings, otherwise it doesn't capture the default/existing settings in the module.

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

AS_ElevionGreen — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:13:16 GMT

Hey @Jnix284 , great insight I wasn't aware of. Do you know if this topic has a higher priority by now? If you use many modules it's quite some work to copy & paste each HUBL into a drag & drop area of a new template. Also I can confirm that there are sometimes rendering issues that needs to be fixed which is even more manual work.

You might ask yourself: Why would you need to have those individual page templates if I can just safe and reuse sections in the drag & drop editor? The answer is because I want to use the new AI website creation functionalities in HubSpot. There I need to select a page template and those sections become useless.

I love that you can use your own templates even for AI now but without an easier way to safe pages as templates, most companies can't make use of it. So maybe from that perspective HubSpot should have a second look on that issue.

I'm desperately waiting for individual templates for other areas like case studies as well because it's just not professional if your website has like 3 different types of navigation modules only because you use different HubSpot products to create the website. If you have an update on this as well, people in the idea forum are already waiting more than a year for any news on this beta: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Case-Studies-Beta-proposed-enhancements/idi-p/1072275

Re: Creating Templates from Pages

Jnix284 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:58:24 GMT

Hi @AS_ElevionGreen I'm sorry, I'm just now seeing your reply and questions here (the notification was buried in my spam).

My initial reply on this thread was before I joined HubSpot and unfortunately I don't have any inside information pertaining to work being done for these features.

What I can share is that the product team are very actively monitoring and engaging in the ideas forum to help improve the quality of existing features (rather than adding new features). The best way to share feedback is to add comments to existing ideas or create new ideas if one doesn't already exist. I know it's tough when an idea has been around for more than a year (like the case studies idea you linked), but with the thousands of ideas submitted it comes down to number of upvotes and comments, as well as feedback from other channels (support tickets, developer feedback center, etc.) to determine which ideas the product team will pursue.