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title: Getting And Defining Freelancer Layouts
description: "Freelancer provides a helper function called freelancer_layout() that makes it super easy to either get or define a Freelancer Layout. Freelancer offers the following default layouts (listed in \"Name\" - \"value\" - \"value function\" format below, for your reference): -…"
url: "https://www.docs.cobaltapps.com/articles/getting-and-defining-freelancer-layouts/"
updated: "2022-08-26"
category: Freelancer Framework
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# Getting And Defining Freelancer Layouts

Freelancer provides a helper function called freelancer_layout() that makes it super easy to either get or define a Freelancer Layout. Freelancer offers the following default layouts (listed in "Name" - "value" - "value function" format below, for your reference):

- Right Sidebar - right_sidebar - freelancer_return_right_sidebar
- Left Sidebar - left_sidebar - freelancer_return_left_sidebar
- No Sidebar - no_sidebar - freelancer_return_no_sidebar
- No Sidebar Narrow - no_sidebar_narrow - freelancer_return_no_sidebar_narrow

As mentioned above you can use the freelancer_layout() function to either get or define a Freelancer Layout. This means if you need to know what layout is assigned to a specific page you would do something like this:

`$current_layout = freelancer_layout();`

Or if you wanted to assign a specific layout to a page you'd do something like this:

`add_filter( 'freelancer_layout', 'freelancer_return_right_sidebar' );`

Note the use of the freelancer_layout filter hook as well as the freelancer_return_right_sidebar() function. Freelancer provides a simple helper function for each available layout as mentioned in the layout list above. So if you wanted to change the above filtered layout to a No Sidebar Narrow layout configuration then you'd simply change the callback function like so:

`add_filter( 'freelancer_layout', 'freelancer_return_no_sidebar_narrow' );`

So in a page template, for example, you could just paste one of the above example snippets into the template file and it should "force" that layout into any page using that template.