Create and use a template for an existing site

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January 1, 2019
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After doing some maintenance on my site such as changing the Copyright date, I thought that there has to be a way of simplifying the process.

I have over 1,000 or so pages and so a template would be the most logical thing to use rather than going through all the pages and manually changing the date from 2018 to 2019.

So my question is this. How can I create and link to every single page a template for this purpose please? I am using Dreamweaver cc 2014 on an iMac.

Thanks for all your help and advice in 2018 and Happy New Year to you all!

Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer cdeatherage

Did you try doing a global [entire current site] find/replace?

Open, say your index.html page--you only need open one page, any one will do--, highlight and copy the relevant portion of the copyright phrase, then Command-F to open the Find dialogue box. Select the Find/Replace option, and paste the clipboard text in the "replace" area. Edit that to change 2018 to 2019. Set the function to be applied to entire current site, and commit the action. That will permanently change each unopened page automatically, but you will need to save the open document to commit the change.

Chris

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cdeatherageCorrect answer

Inspiring

Did you try doing a global [entire current site] find/replace?

Open, say your index.html page--you only need open one page, any one will do--, highlight and copy the relevant portion of the copyright phrase, then Command-F to open the Find dialogue box. Select the Find/Replace option, and paste the clipboard text in the "replace" area. Edit that to change 2018 to 2019. Set the function to be applied to entire current site, and commit the action. That will permanently change each unopened page automatically, but you will need to save the open document to commit the change.

Chris