Create custom layouts in OpenCart: beginner's guide

New pages in OpenCart — an information page, a landing, a custom controller you wrote — start life with the default layout. That means default modules, default columns, default everything. Giving a page its own layout is a five-minute job once you know where the pieces live.

In the admin go to Design → Layouts and click Add. Name it after the page ("Delivery Landing"), and in the routes section add the route the page answers to — information/information for information pages, or the exact route of your custom controller.

A bare route like information/information matches every information page. To hit only one, either use the per-page override — edit the page and pick your layout on its Design tab — or append the id to the route where your OpenCart version supports it. The per-page override is the beginner-proof path: no guessing, visible right on the page you are editing.

Back in the layout, add modules to the four positions — Column Left, Column Right, Content Top, Content Bottom — with a sort order per module. A common landing recipe: a banner in Content Top, an HTML module with the pitch in Content Bottom, and both columns left empty so the content breathes full-width.

If a module refuses to show, check three usual suspects: the module itself is enabled, it is attached to this layout (not just installed), and your theme actually renders the position you chose.

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