Apart from using connected postings and templates, there are other ways to share content across a site.
Connected postings are not the best solution when the postings to be connected have shared placeholders that contain different placeholder content. For example, you may have shared content such as legal disclaimers or the company's logo. Apart from the shared content, each posting will have its own unique content, perhaps the main body or story. In such cases, connected postings and templates will not work.
With connected templates and postings, all placeholder definitions and content are shared. You can't share just the legal disclaimer and have different content in other placeholders. In the example above, we have seen how updating the About
placeholder content automatically updates the About
placeholder content of all connected postings.
In this situation you need to use other ways to tackle shared content. You could retrieve placeholder content programmatically...