Spots for WordPress

Here at interconnect/it we have a policy of developing client sites with the premise of “content manage everything!” That means the little notices on sites, minor widgets and so on should not only be content managed, but they should be easy for both an end-user and a developer to work with.

To that end, we developed Spots. This creates a custom post type that allows you to create widgets using a visual editor, whilst also giving developers an easy hook for the creation of content managable elements within a theme.

The plugin now uses caching in order to help ensure that the load on a typical site is kept to a minimum. Performance is important!

The plugin is prepared for translation, if you’d like to drop us a line about your translation you can contact us through our website.

Developer Notes Spots provides 2 template tags for developers to use shown below with their supported arguments.

icit_spot( $id_or_name, $template );

$id_or_name: Required. A numeric ID or the name of a spot as a string.

$template: Optional. A string used in a call to get_template_part()

This template tag always echos out the spot.

icit_get_spot( $id_or_name, $template, $echo );

Same as the above with an extra argument:

$echo: Optional. Defaults to false. A boolean to indicate whether to echo the spot content or just return it.

Basic Usage You can use spots to replace boilerplate text in your themes. If you have areas in your themes where typically you would hard code the text you could use the following code: