title: Set Default template for category page in Magento
body: <p>New to Magento.</p>
  
  <p>Can any one guide me how to define a default layout for category pages.</p>
  
  <p>Tried local.xml in my theme folder but not working.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my xml file :- </p>
  
  
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Default handle, loaded on most pages --&gt;
  &lt;default&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="head"&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Remove Magento's default assets --&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_css&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;css/print.css&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_css&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;css/styles-ie.css&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_css&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;css/styles.css&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_css&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;css/widgets.css&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/ie6.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;lib/ds-sleight.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="removeItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;varien/menu.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Add our assets --&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;css/font-awesome.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;css/jquery-ui.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;dist/css/style.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;css/ddSlick.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;css/parsjewellers.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/jquery-1.11.1.min.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/jquery-ui.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/ddSlick_jquery.dropdown.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;dist/js/script.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/my_site.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Add additioanl child blocks --&gt;
          &lt;block type="core/template" name="boilerplate.head.meta" template="boilerplate/page/html/head/meta.phtml"/&gt;
          &lt;block type="core/template" name="boilerplate.head.ie8" template="boilerplate/page/html/head/ie8.phtml"/&gt;
  
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="header"&gt;
          &lt;block type="directory/currency" name="custom_currency_selector" template="currency/currency.phtml"/&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="right"&gt;
          &lt;remove name="paypal.partner.right.logo" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="right.permanent.callout" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="right.poll" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="cart_sidebar" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar" /&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="left"&gt;
          &lt;remove name="currency" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="left.permanent.callout" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="tags_popular" /&gt;
          &lt;remove name="left.newsletter" /&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
  &lt;/default&gt;
  
  &lt;catalog_category_default&gt;
      &lt;reference name="root"&gt;
          &lt;action method="setTemplate"&gt;&lt;template&gt;page/2columns-left.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  &lt;/catalog_category_default&gt;
  
  
  &lt;print&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="head"&gt;
  
          &lt;!-- Add our assets --&gt;
          &lt;action method="addCss"&gt;
              &lt;stylesheet&gt;css/style.css&lt;/stylesheet&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;action method="addItem"&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;skin_js&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;name&gt;js/script-ck.js&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;/action&gt;
  
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
  &lt;/print&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>Any help would be highly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>