# SSI include files **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Request\ **Created:** [November 27, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556 "2019-11-27T04:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sbarr10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@sbarr10](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/sbarr10)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/1 "2019-11-27T04:03:01Z")
Hello, In the course of the free trial I thought I’d try editing an html page with an external CSS and SSI file. Discovered there is apparently no SSI file support. This is very disappointing, as I was hoping to ditch my prior (very old) web editor. I have SSI header files and footer files on literally hundreds of html pages. They save me hours of work. This is a dealbreaker for me. ☹ I had been so looking forward to ditching the old editor. ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/2 "2019-11-27T10:28:32Z")
I too used SSI quite a lot on my previous sites. The nearest reference I could find in Pinegrow was **Partials** You can find reference to it here, on the old documentation. > **[Pinegrow Web Editor ⎢ Documentation & Tutorials](http://docsbeta.pinegrow.com)** > > a desktop app that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS styling and smart components for Bootstrap, Foundation, AngularJS and WordPress. particuarly this collective search result [http://docsbeta.pinegrow.com/?s=partials](http://docsbeta.pinegrow.com/?s=partials) and the first one being > **[Working with partials - Pinegrow Web Editor - Documentation and Tutorials](http://docsbeta.pinegrow.com/working-with-partials/?highlight=partials)** > > Partials are HTML documents that contain only a part of the complete page. Partials are usually used with web apps where the app logic dynamically constructs the page. where right at the end of that you see, ![2019-11-27_10-31-56](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/1/1145a44b597ddc52fec180d709d88d921c3bc343.png) Its a bit convoluted, but is this any use to you? N.B, I am afraid you will find no reference to partials in the current documentation. ie [https://pinegrow.com/search?s=partials](https://pinegrow.com/search?s=partials) ---
**Author:** ![Emmanuel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/emmanuel/32/6294_2.png) [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/3 "2019-11-27T11:19:30Z")
Note: I’m sorry, but as we announced it at the time of the events, partials support was removed when version 4 was released. ![41](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/6/6f17e7aedea643dee3ae91a94c47ad18c3133923.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/4 "2019-11-27T11:23:39Z")
Ah! so that’s why I struggled to find it later. I forgot about this and have just been reminded! Any suggestions on SSI and whether partials will make a return? ---
**Author:** ![sbarr10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@sbarr10](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/sbarr10)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/5 "2019-11-27T11:54:36Z")
Live code view of SSI include files is essential to me, I have hundreds of HTML pages to manage. Even if I were to redesign and reimplement them, I would still need the live view of SSI files in the interim. When giving Pinegrow a trial run I was even able to live without the built in site manager/ftp feature, as Filezilla does that well. Price is not really the issue here either, I’m willing to pay a few hundred for one-time purchase of a whizbang editor with all the bells and whistles without having to buy a subscription / use cloud. Going back to my old version of Dreamweaver. Extremely disappointed but grateful I still have my old alternative. Have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![adastragrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@adastragrl](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/adastragrl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/6 "2020-09-11T13:23:39Z")
So, what is the alternative to use in Pinegrow? Is it that PineGrow just calls these snippets of HTML something else? But, yes, all of my websites use SSIs for navigation, boxes of info that show up across multiple pages, even to make it easier to include some content generated by someone else so that I don’t have to worry about them messing up the rest of the page. Surely, there is some alternative within Pinegrow… I mean it looks like it used to be called “partials”, so what is it now? ---
**Author:** ![Pinegrow\_User](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/pinegrow_user/32/4919_2.png) [@Pinegrow\_User](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Pinegrow_User)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/ssi-include-files/3556/7 "2020-09-11T18:18:51Z")
Welcome to the forum. > [@adastragrl](#): > > it looks like it used to be called “partials”, so what is it now? Partials were reintroduced in 5.95, if thats what you want. > **[Pinegrow Web Editor 5.95 - April 1, 2020 | Pinegrow Web Editor](https://pinegrow.com/release_notes/pinegrow-web-editor-5-95-april-1-2020/#partials-are-back)** > > Partials are back, improving the default stylesheet, create new file from the project view and configuring Pinegrow in centralized deployment.