Sections

A section is a saved lump of text you can drop into any page.

Use it for wording you type over and over: a winter notice, a line about your warranty, the same short paragraph on four service pages. Write it once here, then drop it in wherever you need it.

Go to Manage, then Sections.

One card is one saved section.

1. New Section. Starts a new one.

2. Edit. Opens the section so you can change its words.

The copy icon next to Edit makes a second section with the same words. The trash icon beside it deletes the section.

Making one

1. Click New Section.
2. Type a Title. It is a name for your own use, such as Winter Notice. Nobody outside the panel sees it.
3. The Slug fills itself in. Leave it.
4. Type a short Description if you like, so you remember what it is for.
5. Click Create.

The section opens with an empty Content box. Type your words there. It saves itself as you type, the same way an entry does. When the word Saved appears at the top right, you are done.

Using one on a page

Open the page you want it on. Then:

1. Click at the end of the last line and press Enter to make an empty line.
2. Type / on that line. A menu opens.
3. Type section.
4. Click Section in the menu.
5. A box opens listing your saved sections. Click the one you want.

The words drop straight into the page. Pages covers the rest of the page editor.

Then click Publish. Nothing reaches your website until you do. See Saving and publishing.

What you are really doing

Important

Dropping a section into a page makes a copy of the words.

From then on the two are not linked. Change the section here next winter and the pages you already used it on keep the old wording. You have to open each one and fix it.

Deleting a section works the same way. The pages that used it keep their text, and nothing on your website changes.

So a section saves you typing. It is not a way to change five pages at once.