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How To: Connect Links To The Content From The Admin When Changing Templates

When you change a template on your InventoryStores site, such as for the Hosted Account Solution, some links might appear "broken".

When you change a template you are changing the look and style, but some templates use a different order for hard coded links to information pages, such as "Privacy", "Shipping & Returns", etc.  These changes are easily corrected.

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 Content Manager 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.

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.  The number after the Info_ID= will take the user to that page.  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.

 
 
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