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I’m an EE newbie whose experience is largely with (fairly simple) PHP sites. Sometimes I have some text that needs to be in 2 or more places on the site. For DRY reasons, I’d like to enter that text just once. But this repeating text is to appear in a static page (or possibly within a channel entry), not in a template. I have figured out how to do includes in EE, but that only works within a template. AFAIK this is true of global user variables and snippets as well.

Am I missing something?

Umm… I just read this comment which states,

I often use a “miscellaneous content” channel for little bits of text that need to be client-editable.  This content can still be called using code stored in a snippet for a DRY build approach.

But I’m unclear if this applies to my situation, or… how I would implement that suggestion.

Hello dagnew,

Newbies are welcome here! Glad to have you as a part of the community.

When you say that you have a static page, can you tell me a little about that? Do you mean a template that will have only static code in it, so no ExpressionEngine tags?

Have you read through using snippets yet?

I hope this helps, please let me know if I can be of more help.

Cheers,