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How To Add InventoryStores Content Pages: About Us, Policy Pages, and Other ID Pages

One of the first things ecommerce owners like to do with their dropship wholesale website is add content to the About Us Page, Shipping & Returns Page, Privacy Policy Page, etc.  These are all called Information Pages, and this guide will help you to quickly added content to your InventoryStores site.

Information Pages & Links

From the front of your site, when you see a link page from the top menu, bottom menu or side links, many take you to an "ID" or Information Page.

Identify the Information Page:

1)  Click on the link from the front of your store.  Note the name of the link, and look in the address bar.  In the address bar you should see "Info_ID=" and a number.  For example, when you click a link like, "Shipping & Returns" you might see: http://YourStoreName.com/information.php?info_id=6&osCsid=7330bb8ad6c7286296868c0e257cb94e.

2)  Notice the Info_ID=6

Edit the Information Page:

3)  Log into your Admin

4)  Go to the menu Info System and click Info Manager.  This will show you your Information pages.

5)  Look at the ID column. This is the page that the links from your store will connect to when selected.  If you change the templates these numbers might be different.  You can edit these (name, content, etc) from the "pencil & paper icon" on the right of the main menu.  If you are working on a new site, you might need to add the ID page so that it can link to the higher number referenced on the front of your site. 

Adding Information Pages:

6)  If you have 4 Info Pages, but one of your links is "info_id=6", then you need to create two new Info Pages.  You can leave Info Page 5 blank and click the "unpublish option".  This can be done by selecting the red circle on the Info Manager menu.  The next page created will have an ID of 6.  This means the page content will be the page that the link form the front of the store will take the user to when it is selected.  To create a new page you only need to select the "New" button at the bottom of the menu.

In short, click on the information links from the front of your site.  The number after the Info_ID= in the address bar will take the user to that page and connects the page to the content entered in your admin.  You can add, edit, publish, unpublish, etc these pages from the Admin Info System & Info Manager in your Admin.  Just match the content of the ID for that page to the link and you are done.

NOTE: The ID Page numbers will create in order.  You cannot delete an ID page and then add it back to keep making changes.  Adding an ID page has to be done directly in the database.  It is best to UNPUBLISH a change, and not delete.

 
 
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