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HMA - animated site stickers - confusion

UPDATE: I sent a message into Tech Support at ASF (it was the weekend), and they were kind enough to not only respond, but to take care of adding in the code properly. It now all works. Thank you ASF and thanks to all of you for your suggestions.

OK - when ASF first put up the corner stickers, I grabbed it and put it on my site. It's been there since the day they made it available.

Now there are "new" stickers and choices (thank you). But what do I do with the old code? Where does it start and where does it end? How do I replace it with the new code, which is SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER HTML snippet. The original snippet I put up starts at line 4 and ends at line 111 !!!!

I don't want to ruin any other scripts that are up there.

Where is the tech support for this? Can anyone help?



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Mary, don't click on that link that got created when I pasted line 1 of the script codes on my site. I believe it has something to do with my free MailChimp account being connected. And still after 3 years, I have never used MailChimp. I found it very confusing from the beginning.

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Mary, you should be able to just delete the code for that snippet and then just add the new one you want in the same area on your site manager. Is your confusion about not messing up other snippet codes you have running? I didn't have anything until I put that original snippet in . . . The snippet I placed begins with <!-- ArtHelper Human-Made Art Badge --> at line 2 and ends with </script> at line 147 (mine is the original version placed in the upper right corner). The bit of code on line 1 I don't remember being there when I placed the snippet code but it could have been. Just delete the snippet code that is currently there (in your case you are saying it is line 4 through line 111). Before you ht delete once you have it all highlighted, copy it and put it in a document or text edit file and save it so if you want you can go back to it without having to recopy from Arthelper. By the way, line 1 of my script tab in "Site Settings" is <script id="mcjs">!function(c,h,i,m,p){m=c.createElement(h),p=c.getElementsByTagName(h)[0],m.async=1,m.src=i,p.parentNode.insertBefore(m,p)}(document,"script","https://chimpstatic.com/mcjs-connected/js/users/bb053fbd27300e88f0fe9241e/bb8aa5595753f85535f504084.js");</script> If I were changing things, I would leave that in (since as I type this response, I do vaguely remember an ASF employee adding a script to my site when I first started (3 years ago now?) Hope this helps.

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Hey there! Glad Art Storefronts Tech Support got you sorted. For anyone else who hits this same thing in the future, the short version:

The old sticker code and the new sticker code are separate snippets that live in your site's custom scripts section. When you paste the new one in, the old one doesn't automatically go away. You end up with both running at once, which is where the weird behavior comes from.

The cleanest fix is exactly what Tech Support did for you: remove the old snippet entirely, paste in the new one fresh, and save. If you're ever unsure where one snippet ends and another begins in that scripts box, reaching out to Tech Support is the right call. They can see the raw code and swap it in 30 seconds, which beats guessing and accidentally deleting something else.

Nice that you posted the update here too. Someone else will search for this exact problem in three months and find your answer waiting.

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@Taylor Sinople - I have a similar issue to Mary's but with the email snippet for human-made....there's an email signature we can add to Gmail (and others). It says just paste the signature into your email and the mark renders in line. I assume that means the check mark, because it's just a round green circle with no check mark when you copy it in. I tried that but the green circle stays a circle, no check mark even if I send it to another email address and open it there. There's also html you can copy into your signature but all that did was print the HTML code in my signature area when I tried testing that in a real email. So neither way really works.

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