Forum:How do you convert an existing page to use a template/layout?

After some experimentation with a page format on a couple of articles on my wiki, I decided on a layout format. I had put it off because I figured I could convert any manually formatted pages to use the official layout later.

However: 1. I can't find any function to switch an existing page to an official layout. (Am I just missing it?) 2. I thought I'd get clever and rename the original page to something else and then create a new page in its place with the layout template, but it gives an error that a page with that name already exists but is in a deleted state, but no option to overwrite it. (Oddly, when I re-renamed the original one, I got a similar error, but it *did* have an option to overwrite, thankfully.)

Help?

Mussels 15:30, September 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Can you link the wiki you tried this on?