Sections - Lookout Ridge IT

You will rarely need this page.

A section is a saved lump of text you can drop into any page. A winter notice, a line about your warranty, the same short paragraph on four service pages.

Your website does not use sections, so the Sections screen is not in your menu. Copy and paste does the same job, with less to learn.

The Section choice in the editor

Type / on an empty line in any page and you will see Section in the menu. Click it and a box opens to pick a saved section.

With no saved sections, the box reads No sections available. That is normal. Close the box and carry on.

If you saved sections before

Your saved sections are still there, and the Section choice still drops them into a page. To change one, open the screen by its address:

Open your website in your browser.
Add /_emdash/admin/sections to the end of its address.
Press Enter.

Click a section to open it. Change the words in Content, then click Save. New section makes a new one: type a Title, then click Create section.

Important

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

From then on the two are not linked. Change the section 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.

After you drop a section into a page, click Publish changes, then Publish changes again to confirm. Nothing reaches your website until you do. See Saving and publishing.