Custom page templates

Did you put them in the right place? They show up for me by putting them in kleo-child/page-templates/

Copy the one that’s closest to what you want. They can be found in kelo/page-templates/. Keep in mind that you can only have one template for BuddyPress pages unless you hack the actual BuddyPress page. That’s a BuddyPress issue, not a Kleo issue.

I’d go with 1. Its a common way to do things.

Anytime. The other benefit by doing it that way is that your page will automagically get any Kleo code updates instead of you having to apply them yourself.

Hi, All templates you copy from the main theme must stay in the exact folder structure in the child theme. So if you copy index.php then you copy it to the root of the child theme also.

To create page templates, which in Kleo theme are stored in page-templates folder, you just copy to the child theme one existing page template like full-width.php and give it a different name. To appear in the dropdown for the Page template you must edit it and also change the Template name to a different one:

/**
 * Template Name: Full-width New Name
 *
 * Description: Template withour sidebar
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Kleo
 * @author SeventhQueen <themesupport@seventhqueen.com>
 * @since Kleo 1.0
 */

You can go with the page templates if you want, but using shortcodes could be useful in the future to change some things from that page quickly in another one.
As for the system resources I don’t think it is such a big impact of performance but probably not using a shortcode and basically writing the code by hand in the template could be faster..

If you dont want to edit .php files, then switch to Custom page for Portfolio Archive then set the page to use a sidebar.

If you want to edit it, try copying it to your child theme and change kleo_switch_layout( ‘no’ ) to either kleo_switch_layout( ‘left’ ) or kleo_switch_layout( ‘right’ )