Boilerplate

put the boilerplate text in a text file, then use an include statement in your template to insert the file with the boilerplate text.

Sorry, I didn’t give the full story, I want a common starting place for each post that’s then customzed. It’s basically a placeholder for an image:
<img src=”https://www.leepotts.com/placeholder.jpg&#8221; alt=”ALT TEXT” align=”left” width=”118″ height=”120″ border=”0″>

do you have a mock up example?

It’s bacially a placeholder for the image in the upper left of most of the posts here: https://www.leepotts.com/tehi
Here’s an actually example from one of the live posts:
<img src=”https://www.leepotts.com/040723PHIL.jpg&#8221; alt=”PHIL: The Public Health Image Library” align=”left” border=”0″ height=”120″ width=”118″ />

so you want to insert boilerplate code at the beginning of your post content input box?

Yep, that’s it.

Thanks Charles, I wasn’t expecting you to write code, I really appreciate it.