Insert Content Introduction

If you have not used Insert Content pages in the past, please refer to An Introduction to the Insert Content Method and Styling Inserted Content before reading the specific instructions via the table below.

Is your Insert Content page not working?

Insert Content pages must be created from a new page and must never be renamed. If your Insert Content page is not working as described, please refer to My inserted content is not working as described.

Insert Content List

* CATEGORYNAME must be replaced with a category name of your choice, for example:

x ic after category Long Sleeve T-Shirts

Use the same method for PAGENAME and ARTISTNAME. In the case of PAGESLUG, refer to How do I obtain a page slug for a particular area of my shop?

An Introduction to the Insert Content Method

The Insert Content method allows you to easily and cleanly insert content into different areas and locations within your shop, without having to edit your original theme file code.

Using the Insert Content not only reduces the risk of corrupting your shop pages, but also makes your customisations far more manageable and easy to undo (by simply deleting the relevant Insert Content page) and prevents them from being overwritten when upgrading your theme.

Some useful applications for the Insert Content method include:

• Using x ic home to replace the default home page content with a slide show or other custom content
• Using x ic before category CATEGORYNAME to display category descriptions and/or category specific slide shows
• Using x ic header to display an animated gif for a header (Big Cartel’s header image uploader does not support animated gifs)
• Using x ic after product description in category CATEGORYNAME to display common product details for all products in a category

To Insert Content you must create a new page (you can not simply rename an existing page) in your Big Cartel Customize design > Pages () admin area and name it exactly as specified by the Insert Content list in the previous section of this article. For example:

In our example, any content we add and save to this page will be displayed after all content.

For general instructions on adding pages, refer to How do I add a page to my Big Cartel shop?

Styling Inserted Content

If you wish to apply custom styles to your inserted content, you can do so either via inline HTML styles or you can use your custom style coding area – refer to Where do I add custom style coding in my Big Cartel theme controls?

Note that special styling is required for your public notice (x ic public notice). Refer to How do I style my public notice? instead of the following.

All inserted content is assigned the class ic_block. So, for example, if you wanted to make all inserted content bold and font size 15px, you could add the following to your custom style coding area:

.ic_block {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 15px;
	}

Additionally, each inserted content block has a class derived from the content name. For example, if you inserted content with x ic before cart you could style this block specifically by adding the following to your custom style coding area:

.ic_before_cart {
	colour: red;
	border-bottom: 1px solid blue;
	}

Note that the class is simply the Insert Content title without the x and with spaces replaced with underscores.

Inserted content that includes a user specified category name, does not include the category name in the class. For example, if you inserted content before the T-Shirts category page with x ic before product in category T-Shirts you would style this block by adding the following to your custom style coding area:

.ic_before_category {
	background: #fafafa;
	font-family: Courier;
	}

My inserted content is not working as described

If your inserted content is not displaying in the manner described in the Insert Content list (at the beginning of this support article), this is most likely because you have changed the insert content page name after your initial save and you are expecting its behaviour to change accordingly.

To address this issue – i.e. to change the type of Insert Content page – you must:

1. Delete the Insert Content pages that you no longer need (or that is not working as expected).
2. Create your new Insert Content pages, using the correct name from the Insert Content list before your very first save of your new page.
3. Add your content to your new Insert Content page and save it.

Upgrade Your Theme

If the above steps do not resolve your issue, this is most likely because you do not have the latest version of your theme installed.

To ensure you have all of the latest theme features, please upgrade your theme as detailed in the support article How do I upgrade my theme?