Providing advice and tips on how to better manage your content in any CMS.
Many Content Management Systems have a method for entering repeated content in multiple pages, in Enhance we call these Plugins. For example the footer on your website will be used many times on each page of the site. Having this embedded in the template would mean you would need to go back to your design or web company to change it. However having it repeated on every page makes it very difficult to manage the content as a single change would have to be repeated across multiple locations. This is where plugins come in and it’s probably one of the most useful features on any CMS, certainly when it comes to saving you time. If you ever find yourself copying content from one page to another you should consider instead creating a plugin and using that for both the original content and the new copy. While it might seem time consuming at first if in the future you need to change the content all you need to do is edit the text in one location and it will update throughout your site. They are definitely something you should familiarise yourself with when using any CMS and especially in Enhance.
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