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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Creating a Page (Linking to Content)

Overview 

As of version 3, Squirrelcart can now be used as a full blown CMS (content management system). This page explains how to create your own pages by creating links to content.

Instructions for Creating a Page

  1. In order to create a page, you must have content to put on that page. Create that content via a Content record, using the instructions in the Content - Creating and Modifying topic as a guide. When done, continue below.
  2. Click the Themes menu link:
    themes menu
  3. Click the Links link
  4. Click add new
  5. Enter a name for your link in the Name field
  6. By default, that name is used as the text for the link (text directly inside the anchor tag). If you wish to use different text for the link, enter it in the optional Label field
  7. Set the Link To field to content
  8. Set the Content field to the content you want to appear on the page
  9. Click Save Changes
  10. In order to view the page, click the link on your storefront page. If the link is not present on your storefront page, see the Displaying Links section of the Links - Overview topic for instructions on how to display links.


Search Engine Settings

After following the steps above, the Link record will show the following additional fields that are specific to search engine indexing:

Page Title
This allows you to set the title of the page, used in the <title/> tag when viewing this page. If left blank, the value of the Name field is used instead.

Keywords
This field is used to populate the keywords meta tag when this page is viewed.

Meta Description
This field is used to populate the description meta tag when this page is viewed.

 

In Relation to SEO URLs

Pages created by linking to content have full support for Squirrelcart's SEO URL feature. When SEO URLs are enabled, you'll see an optional SEO URL Name field on Link records when Link To is set to content. That field works exactly as it does on other records that support the SEO URL feature. If you would like to manually control the term used in the URLs linking to this page, enter the term you wish to use in that field.

By default, SEO URLs linking to pages created in this manner appear as follows:

http://www.example.com/content/about

 

 

 

 


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