Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance When holidays or other one-time events are approaching, you may need to change certain elements of your site. In order to avoid working under pressure and to be ready on the big day, it is possible to prepare your elements in advance, and display them only at the last moment in a few clicks. To do this, use the "General configuration" of your site's pages: you can define a different home page as well as a different header and footer over time. Here are the different steps for preparing a special Christmas header, for example.
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance Still in the Administration menu
- Front-end. Click on the "Pages" tab. Click on the "+" button.
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance Select the following page type: "Page header". Enter the name of your header so that it can be easily found. And choose Page header as the Page type. Click the "Save" button.
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance Search for your page. Open the builder. Configure your special holiday header then publish it.
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance When you want to publish this new header in place of your usual header, click on the "General configuration" gear icon. Click on the "Header and footer" tab. Select the header you have prepared as the new default header.
Practical case: preparing holidays and special events in advance Here are some elements you can prepare in advance:
- Header
- Footer
- Home page
- Menus (which can be reused in your new header and your new footer)
- "About" page
- General rental conditions
- Privacy policy