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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Contact Page - Viewing and Linking to

Overview

This page explains how to view your Contact page. It also explains how to link to your contact page from your storefront page. Depending on the theme you are using, you may or may not already have a link that will open your contact page.

URL to your Contact Page

Squirrelcart has built in features to link to your Contact page, which are described in the sections below. If you prefer to have the URL so you can link to that page yourself, the default query string URL is:

http://www.example.com/store.php?contact=page

 

If you are using our SEO URLs feature, the default URL is:

http://www.example.com/store.php/contact

 

If you are using our SEO URLs (Advanced) feature to hide your storefront page from URLs, the URL is:

http://www.example.com/contact

 

Linking to Your Contact Page

If you do not already have a link to your contact page, you will need to add one in the control panel.

Determining if you Already have a Contact Page Link

If you are using the default Squirrelcart theme or a custom theme based on it, you may have a Contact link in the Main Menu navigation block. By default, this navigation block appears on the left side of the storefront page as the first nav block:

 

Other themes may also have a built-in Contact link. In our Main Street theme, the link is located in the top horizontal navigation area:

 

If you already have a contact link, you won't need to add one. If you do not have one, see the instructions below.

Adding a Link to Your Contact Page

You can add a link to your contact page using Squirrelcart's Links feature. For more information on this feature, please see the Customizing > Themes > Links section of this documentation.

 

Adding a link to your storefront page is a two part process. First, you must create the Link record to defined the link itself. Then, you must add that link to your storefront page.

 

  1. Click the Settings > Themes link in your control panel:

  2. Click the Links link. A table will appear showing all the Link records in your database.
  3. You may already have a Contact Links record in the table. If you see one, click anywhere on it's row to edit it. If you do not see one, click the  button to open a new record.
  4. The default Contact Link record should look like this:


    Make sure your record matches what you see above:

    - If you want the link to read something other than Contact, enter your own label text in the Label field.
    - The Description field is for reference only and can be left blank.
    - The Link To field must be set to contact page
    -
    The In field can be set to whatever you like. We recommend setting this to same window (_self)
    - The Show When field controls when this link will appear. The value you see above causes the link to only appear when the module is installed. If you don't plan on removing the module you can safely leave this field blank.
    - You will not see the Unique ID field on a new record. In most cases, you will never need the value in this field. Squirrelcart automatically generates this is value for internal use.
  5. After confirming that your Contact record matches the image above, click the Save Changes button.
  6. Now that you have created the link record for your Contact page, you will need to add it to your storefront page. This topic explains how to do this.

If you have trouble getting your Contact page link to appear, contact our support department and we can assist you.


 

 


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