Pre-coded templates for Pages

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I think that the CMS should have a feature that allows users to create basic templates for new pages to use.
With such an option, a new page would come with precoded html markup.

I came across this issue while working on a theme for which I want to let users decide whether they want the page content to be inside a wrapper, but also let them decide if they want the sidebar (that can be dynamic) to be in its own wrapper, outside of the main one.

For a static sidebar, this is not issue as it can done in the layout.htm, with a partial and some conditional statements, but for dynamic sidebar this is not possible.

From my different tests, a dynamic sidebar can either be in a page (easiest solution imho), in the layout (with tons and tons of conditionnal statements), or have one different layout for each pages the user wants a different sidebar for.
For each of those solutions, there is a problem:

• In the case the sidebar stays in the page, a end-user would need to copy paste some code each time he's creating a new page in order for the theme to work properly.
• In the case the sidebar stays in the layout.htm, the end user would need to edit the layout.htm (which could make him break things), and he would need to edit the layout.htm every time he decided to add a page and a new sidebar, and would also need to redo it when the theme is getting updated.
• A user could also decide to duplicate the layout.htm for every page he wants the sidebar to be different but then, for each updates the theme would get, this user would need to update every layout he created.

As an alternative, and or as a different idea, a new type of components could be added that would allow users to prepare chunks of codes in advance (snippets) and simply drag and dropping them would paste that html markup in the page we're editing.