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Program to update all pages with links?

by Sparhawke
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I read a post once about some software that could come in very handy when the time arises that allows you to simply update one page with a new link and then all the rest will follow.

Obviously if you have more than 100 pages this could be a valuable time saver since you won't need to manually add the link to every page constantly but I cannot for the life of me remember where I saw it, can anyone put a link up please?
#links #pages #program #update
  • Profile picture of the author mikeb209
    Your html editor should have a find a replace feature under the edit tab. You'd simply enter the phrase you want to find, enter the folder where you want it to look in, and it will find and replace every single file that has that phrase.

    You'd then re-upload to your server. That's how I've been doing it
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Sparhawke, there are a couple ways this can be done. If you use SSI (server side includes) you can update one file and all your web pages that use that SSI call will update automatically. That's what it sounds like you're talking about.

    Unfortunately if your not using SSI now his isn't an option as your pages have to be set up for it from the beginning. Might be something to look at for the future though. All my sites navigation and side bar info is loaded through SSI. I can change a link, change an advertiser, change anything I want by changing one file, depending on which section I want to update.

    The other way is to use a Search and Replace program, as mikeb209 mentioned. There are free programs available if your HTML editor doesn't have that feature. A lot of them aren't multi-line search and replace though, but I have one that is if you need it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparhawke
    Not sure I fully understand that Mike but I will check kompozer to see if it has such a feature

    Thanks for the answer Dennis, that was exactly what I meant...my site is tiny right now so it isn't much of an issue, I just thought to find out if it was possible without wasting too much time
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