Page Layouts, Solutions and SharePoint Designer (Updated)

Posted January 22nd, 2010 by Eric Webb

If you are deploying custom page layouts using a feature, DO NOT OPEN THEM IN SHAREPOINT DESIGNER! Not even once. Not just to “take a look”. Not for giggles.
Why? Because once you open that page layout in SharePoint Designer, it gets un-ghosted. This does two things. First, it means [...]