How Do I Add Dynamic Text to Multiple Pages?

I'm not sure if there's a name for what I want to do. If there is, please let me know and I can research it. I'm getting ready to start making blog entries, and I want to add text to the bottom (above the footer) of every blog page that can be updated from a single location. I'm thinking maybe a text file that I edit, and a way to have the text file displayed on each page by inserting some code.

If you know how to accomplish this, please help.

If you add HTML to the Blog page code injection this will be reflected on every blog page, and can be updated in just one place. It's not necessarily the ideal solution, but it would work.

8 hours ago, Ziggy said:

If you add HTML to the Blog page code injection this will be reflected on every blog page, and can be updated in just one place. It's not necessarily the ideal solution, but it would work.

How do I determine where it will be displayed? I'm not sure which HTML function I should be looking for to do this.

8 minutes ago, Elemino said:

I'm not sure which HTML function I should be looking for to do this

Really depends on what you want to put there.

This is a basic heading and paragraph in HTML:

<div>
  <h3>
    Write your heading here
  </h3>
  <p>
    Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here.
  </p>
</div>

21 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

Really depends on what you want to put there.

This is a basic heading and paragraph in HTML:

<div>
  <h3>
    Write your heading here
  </h3>
  <p>
    Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here. Write a paragraph here.
  </p>
</div>

 

This much I know. But how do I force it to appear at the bottom of the blog entry?

14 minutes ago, Elemino said:

But how do I force it to appear at the bottom of the blog entry?

From previous:

9 hours ago, Ziggy said:

add HTML to the Blog page code injection

Go to the Blog page settings, add to Post Blog Item Code Injection.

12 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

From previous:

Go to the Blog page settings, add to Post Blog Item Code Injection.

Oh, I see. That's the default location for injection. This won't work unless I'm able to select which pages it appears on. I feel this has me on the right track though. There will be multiple paragraphs, and the paragraph that appears depends on the page I want it to appear on. I may need to look into making certain Div's appear based on the code I place on the page.

If it is different on different issues then you should just add the text to the blog pages in the normal way, what I was suggesting would save you time to add the same text to every page.

I don't have a solution but some observations.

I'm not sure I fully understand what @Elemino wants. It sounds as though there might be some boilerplate text bits that need to be inserted into various posts.

If this is indeed the case I'm thinking that this is a situation where one could leverage tags to trigger the text being inserted into the post.

You'd need some JavaScript to detect a tag and then insert the appropriate boilerplate text.

If you need to insert the boilerplate in various locations then instead of tags you'd use a code block or text block with a magic tag that would trigger the insertion.

14 hours ago, creedon said:

I don't have a solution but some observations.

I'm not sure I fully understand what @Elemino wants. It sounds as though there might be some boilerplate text bits that need to be inserted into various posts.

If this is indeed the case I'm thinking that this is a situation where one could leverage tags to trigger the text being inserted into the post.

You'd need some JavaScript to detect a tag and then insert the appropriate boilerplate text.

If you need to insert the boilerplate in various locations then instead of tags you'd use a code block or text block with a magic tag that would trigger the insertion.

This sounds exactly like what I want to do, but I definitely do not have the skill to execute. I will keep searching. Thanks for your input.

15 hours ago, creedon said:

I don't have a solution but some observations.

I'm not sure I fully understand what @Elemino wants. It sounds as though there might be some boilerplate text bits that need to be inserted into various posts.

If this is indeed the case I'm thinking that this is a situation where one could leverage tags to trigger the text being inserted into the post.

You'd need some JavaScript to detect a tag and then insert the appropriate boilerplate text.

If you need to insert the boilerplate in various locations then instead of tags you'd use a code block or text block with a magic tag that would trigger the insertion.

Looks like the name of what I'm looking for is a "reusable block", and from what I see from Ziggy and others is Squarespace still does not support this feature yet. That's very disappointing. I would love to figure out how to do this with code, but there may be no use at this point.

This article is what led me to this conclusion: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/reusable-blocks/

You try this plugin, it allows you add an element to multi pages

https://www.will-myers.com/products/p/section-loader-supreme

On 8/29/2023 at 4:59 AM, tuanphan said:

You try this plugin, it allows you add an element to multi pages

https://www.will-myers.com/products/p/section-loader-supreme

That looks like exactly what I need. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!