Automatic application of templates to content

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one memory including a plurality of layout templates;
• at least one processor in communication with the memory;
• and
• one or more modules comprising instructions stored in the memory and executed by the processor to perform operations comprising:
• providing a la out template that includes content placeholders that have a progression order;
• automatically grouping a plurality of content items included in a visual workspace into two or more different clusters, two or more of the plurality of content items being at different spatial position from each other;
• determining an edited visual presentation progression order of two or more different automatically located clusters in response to a user editing request to edit distribution of content of one or more automatically located cluster to a different layout template;
• determining a visual presentation progression order of the two or more different clusters by automatically distributing the two or more different clusters to two or more respective content placeholders included in a layout template selected from the plurality of layout templates;
• and
• visually presenting the two or more different clusters within the layout template in the determined edited visual presentation progression order in accordance with the automatically locating of the clusters and the user editing request.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

• providing a layout template that includes content placeholders that have a progression order;
• automatically grouping a plurality of content items included in a visual workspace into two or more different clusters, two or more of the plurality of content items being at different spatial position from each other;
• determining an edited visual presentation progression order of two or more different automatically located clusters in response to a user editing request to edit distribution of content of one or more automatically located cluster to a different layout template;
• determining a visual presentation progression order of the two or more different clusters by automatically locating, by one or more processors, the two or more different clusters to two or more respective content placeholders included in the layout template;
• and
• visually presenting the two or more different clusters within the layout template in the determined edited visual presentation progression order in accordance with the automatically locating of the clusters and the user editing request.