Actually, there's a better way to do this. Concrete has a feature called "global areas" which allows you to edit an area once and it will display the same content automatically on every page that has the same global area.

So, instead of:


I would use this:


Then, you can add a simple content block with your content and it will display automatically anywhere you have this area.

Hope that helps?

that's interesting.... why would i use global areas over say includes, or stacks?

I'll definitly check them out.

But i still have the question..... let me expand a little, let's say im working on a theme, and i want to populate the theme's content with lorem ipsum you know to keep the form of the site, without employing Css that could in some cases cripple my theme.

So how would I do that, but still allow the user to replace the content in the area, with a block or what not.... i quess it would be a "default" content type setting.

Thanks though for your pointers.

I'm not sure exactly how to do it, but you can use the sample content add on in the marketplace to make an xml tree of the site structure, then set an option so that someone can choose to install sample content with the theme. This wipes out all the content on your site though.

And if you just want default content for this site, you can edit the defaults from the page types section of the dashboard, new pages will inherit the blocks set up there. You can also choose 'set up on child pages' from each block's context menu to apply it to pages already existing on your site.