layout:contents not showing up in nested template

Question

I have three templates, simplified here for your digestion:

First One:

{layout="giving/.giving_meta"}

                        <div class="row">
                            <div class="col-md-4">
                                <h4>Guide To Giving</h4>
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                            </div>
                            <div class="col-md-4">
                                <h4>Greatest Needs</h4>
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                            </div>
                            <div class="col-md-4">
                                <h4>Impact</h4>
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                            </div>
                        </div>

Onward, I have .giving_meta:

{layout="master_templates/.backpage}
     {layout:set name="title"}MyTitle{/layout:set}
        {layout:set name="department"}Department{/layout:set}

Finally my .backpage template (again, abridged for utility):

<a bunch of html>
{layout:contents}
<more HTML and stuff, the end>

{layout:contents} is not making it to the third and final template. It arrives just fine if I point the first template to .backpage directly, but otherwise it's a no show. Any ideas? I'm on EE 2.9.2.

Answer 1

I'm not sure, because I never tried to use nested layout templates, but I believe that {layout:contents} have its value set on every template. So, the second one needs to be:

{layout="master_templates/.backpage}
{layout:set name="title"}MyTitle{/layout:set}
{layout:set name="department"}Department{/layout:set}
{layout:contents}

Specially for a matter of performance, I recommend you to limit the number of layouts and embeds to a minimum. I can't even imagine a reason for what you're doing. You could have set the meta on the first one.