Powershell Script to Change Page Layout on Publishing Pages
August 16, 2012 2 Comments
This is an useful script to change the Page Layout for all the publishing pages for a site.
$spWeb = Get-SPWeb("http://yourwebapplication.com/yoursite")
$pWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($spWeb)
$pSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingSite($spWeb.Site);
$siteLayouts = $pSite.GetPageLayouts($false)
$myLayout = $siteLayouts["/_catalogs/masterpage/yourpagelayout.aspx"]
#$myLayout
$query = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPQuery
$query.ViewAttributes = "Scope='RecursiveAll'"
$pages = $pWeb.GetPublishingPages($query)
foreach ($page in $pages)
{
if ($page.ContentType.Name -eq "Folder")
{
continue
}
$page.Layout = $myLayout
$page.update()
$page.ListItem.File.Publish("")
$page.ListItem.File.Approve("")
}
$spWeb.Dispose()
Get the script file here.
Have fun!!!
See you,
Amadeu.
myspworld 
Hi,
I am facing lots of errors in executing this script. Beginning with the term Get -SPWeb is not recognized as the name of command. Can you please help me with this?
The Get-SPWeb Powershell cmdlet is defined on the SharePoint Powershell modules.
You can include it using two methods:
-Opening the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell on the start menu on your SharePoint box. This is the simplest way since it will load all the modules for your.
-Run the following command on any powershell command window:
if ((Get-PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
{
Add-PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell”
}
After your have a powershell window with the SharePoint modules loaded you can execute the code provided in the post.
Please check the details on the Get-SPWeb cmdlet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607807.aspx.