Telephone numbers are a vital part of every Practice. When managing telephone numbers you need to consider where they will be located and how best to apply them to the site.
The Practice information of the website
This is the information used by search engines to present the information is search results.
How to update the Practice Information
Various pages and locations on the website
Your website will be littered with telephone numbers. To simply the management of these and at the same time make them clickable for mobile users i.e. click to dial, we would have added these as a Media Item when the site was built.
You will see these within your content as %%media-50%% or similar number, and when viewed by the patients it will be replaced with the associated telephone number and can be clicked to dial.
How to add the Clickable Telephone Media Item to your content
From the WYSIWYG Editor within the Media Dropdown in the tool bar, you can select the Media Item you wish to use.
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Media Drop Down |
- It will place the item on the page in relation to where your cursor is
- It will appear in text form - i.e. %%media-50%%
(the number is unique to the media item created, so each one will have a different number)
How to update the Clickable Telephone Media Item
Follow the guidance below to locate the Clickable Telephone Media Item.
You will need to then manually adjust the telephone numbers shown. Should you accidentally delete some of the code, there is a version shown below.Creating a Clickable Telephone Media Item
Using the information in the tables below to follow the instructions:
| Type | HTML |
| Name | [Add a title for easy reference] |
| Code |
<a href="tel:00000000000">000 0000 0000</a> |