Reuse content

Working with substantial amounts of content in many pages within a site or among many sites and that content having similar characteristics may prove hard to maintain. With Sitefinity CMS, you can reuse content in another page or site or use a variation of the content instead of having to create the identical content all over from scratch. Thus, having lots of similar content and diverse channels where to push this content becomes easily manageable by reusing and re-purposing the content many times across multiple pages and sites.

By reusing content, you:

• Reduce content creation time by eliminating duplicating effort
• Reduce maintenance time
• Ensure content is consistent throughout your site or sites
• Ensure layout is consistent throughout your site or sites
• Utilize same content in different locations
• Reuse variations of identical content

When reusing content within a site, you simply duplicate it, or copy it. The duplicated content can be either an exact copy with a different name or closely similar edited content.

When working in a multisite environment, you can share content and content providers between one site to one or more other sites within your project, that is, use the same content on many sites.

Apart from sharing content, such as forms and templates, you can simultaneously pull content items of different content types (news, events, forms, templates, and others) from the current site’s default provider and from other sites’ providers that are within your multisite environment. Thus, content items located in a provider can be shared among one or more sites. As a result, related, identical, and similar content is consistent and easily shared and maintained.

To reuse content, you do one or more of the following: