Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PGL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PGL to another file type
To convert PGL files to another format, you need PageLayer or other Web software.
Convert a file to PGL
To convert other file formats to the "WordPress Plugin Layout" file type, you need software like PageLayer or a similar tool.
About PGL files
A .PGL file is primarily a page builder saved section or layout template utilized by the PageLayer WordPress plugin. Web developers use these files to store structural configuration data, grids, columns, and styling rules, allowing them to export and transfer page designs between different WordPress installations. Despite their utility in web design, .PGL files present significant disadvantages for average users. Because they are a highly proprietary format, they are essentially useless outside of the PageLayer ecosystem. They do not contain standard web code like standard HTML or CSS, but rather serialized configuration data meant for database insertion. Consequently, you cannot simply open a .PGL file in a standard web browser or image editor, and standard online converters will completely fail to process it. Users frequently need to extract the underlying design or text data to migrate to a different page builder or platform, but face a hard vendor lock-in. Ideally, users want to convert a .PGL file to standard web formats like HTML, CSS, or JSON to recover the layout structure. However, because the file only stores instructions and not the final rendered visual, direct conversion is extremely difficult. Often, only the original PageLayer plugin operating within a live WordPress environment can properly read, render, or export the visual data. If you are stuck with an inaccessible template, convert.guru offers a pragmatic workaround. Drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported. convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PGL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PGL file to SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, JPG, CDR, WMF, EMF, SWF, FLA, XFL or SKETCH, you can use PageLayer or similar software from the "Page Builder Layout Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert AFPUB, EPS, FIG, VSD, SKETCH, VDX, AFPHOTO, PDF, AFDESIGN, SVG, VSDX or AI files to PGL, try PageLayer or another comparable tool in the "Page Builder Layout Storage" category.
The PGL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PGL converter.