Are you a time traveler? In your Peppered dashboard you are for sure!
Special Access
It can be very handy to have a look in the future, especially when you have a presale or the start of seasons sale coming up. Once you are logged in to the dashboard you automatically have access to Special Access.
Special acces not visible?
First make sure you are logged in in the dashboard, if not logged in the special acces is not available.
If logged in the special access can be hidden. You can only see a small black rectangular field in the upper right corner of your site. Click on it and it will enlarge.
After accidently clicked on the cross of the special access it will disappear. A cookie prevents that it will reappear after reload for about 15 minutes. If you want to have the special access immediately you will need to remove the cookie which prevents this.
Remove cookie special access:
(Note: this is for Chrome browser, other browsers will have a similar way but can be different)
- Go to settings of your browser
- Choose "Cookies and other sitedata"
- Choose "Show all cookies and site data"
- Search for your site (in the example amare)
- Search for "SA_closed and click the cross.
Edit
When you are on a page in the special access mode, you can click on "Edit page" or "Edit production", after which you will directly be send to the right place in your dashboard to start editing this particular page .
Note: Your home and agenda page are build within the "Routes & Parts" module and are therefore not accessible via this edit tool. On those pages the text "Edit Page" will therefore be replaced by "Go to Dashboard".
Reveal Crops
A single image can be displayed on multiple places on your website. Sometimes an image is directly shown in a beautiful way on every page, but in other cases you'd like to adjust the position of your image a bit. You can do this easily with the crop tool.
Go to the page where you'd find the picture that you'd like to adjust. Click on the "reveal crops" button and select the image you like to adjust for your whole website. You will be send to your dashboard where you can choose which part of the image you'd like to reveal on your website.
Note: to see/make the adjustments of your crop make sure you display the website on a "normal" view. If you are using a very wide/big screen you won't see the changes.
Time Machine
The "Time machine" tool can be very useful when you have a presale coming up. For example, your presale groups viability starts on the 1st of March and your sale starts on the 15th of March. You can travel to those dates to see what website visitors will see by then. You can even check if discount codes work, and (if you have a visitor-tag yourself) you can see what visitors with specific tags will see. This can also be used to see how a planned banner will look on your homepage.
Note: when you click through your website as a time traveler, you can be thrown back to the current time if you click on short URLs. Only the URLs that are set up the right way will keep you in the time travellers mode.
Preview Templates
Some of your website texts will only be shown when an order is finished or if a payment goes wrong. With "Preview Templates" you can easily check the template texts of your website. When you see a text you'd like to adjust please go to your template texts module (Dashboard > System > Template texts).
You can read our tips and tricks for template texts in the manual Template Texts.
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