title: how to change the layout of category page in magento1.9
body: <p>I'm trying to change the layout of category page in Magento through the admin panel. Did all the changes as needed showing below in image:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/M6imc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">custom tab of deafult</a></p>
  
  <p>In sub-category, I did [Custom Design->Use Parent Category Setting-> yes]</p>
  
  <p>but the problem is changes aren't reflecting in the frontend, no matter whatever the layout is chosen. 
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MKNIX.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this is the view of my frontend page</a>
  Added the block in local.xml too.</p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
  &lt;layout version="0.1.0"&gt;
  &lt;default&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;/layout&gt;
  </code></pre>