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Tutorial: A very basic website - Add a second content block

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Tutorial: A very basic website - Add a second content block

Often your template needs more content blocks. For example if you have a two column layout. You can then offer an editor two separate text fields; one for each column.

Steps

Open Design Manager (Layout → Design Manager). On the Templates tab click the Basic demo - 1 template.

Replace the code in the Template Content field:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Basic demo</title>
</head>
<body>
  {content}
  <hr>
  {content block='content2' label='Second content block'}
</body>
</html>

Submit the template

Open Content Manager (Content → Content Manager). Edit the content page Page 1. Note that a second content block is available now.
Type some text is this new content block: Content for second block. Then Submit the page and refresh the home page (front end).

You should now see that the content of the second content block is added. It's separated by the horizontal like that was added to the page template too (<hr>)