Create a custom layout XML file in Magento

To create a layout XML file, we’ll first create the directory structure in our custom module.

All layout XML files go in a view/frontend/layout directory. If the layout XML files are defined anywhere else, Magento won’t be aware that the files exist.

Next comes the XML file named specific for our front, controller & action name. Since our URL is redirecting to the /blog/post/list URL, our file will be named blog_post_list.xml.

Within this file is the standard XML prolog, along with the <page> node. It’s pretty common to grab this tag from one of the core Magento modules, or sa...