One of the main limitations of working with WordPress is that it only gives you one editable content area per page. For simple blog layouts, this is usually fine, but as more people use WordPress as a CMS it becomes more of a limitation.
What if you want a more complex layout, perhaps just for your home page or perhaps through your site, with text that you can edit through the dashboard in two places instead of just one? Perhaps you have product pages, and want one section to display your product blurb and another to give the technical specs. Or perhaps you have book reviews, and want one section to review the book and another to give an author bio. There are all kinds of situations where one content area isn’t enough.
In the past, I’ve worked hard to get around this limitation, e.g. by using excerpts for secondary content, or by creating a child page and then using a custom template on the parent page which displays the child page’s content too. These methods work, but they’re clunky. Time for a plugin…
The Other Content lets you add additional editable content areas to your pages. Once you’ve installed and activated The Other Content, you’ll be able to create new content types on the Settings > The Other Content page. When you add or edit a page, you’ll then be able to select any or all of these content types and enter content using a new area below the standard primary content area.
Additional content can then be display by adding <?php the_other_content(’Content Type Name’); ?> in the appropriate place in your theme files inside the loop, or <?php the_other_content(’Content Type Name’, ‘Post ID’); ?> outside the loop.