One of my favorite features of a commercial CMS we use is the Generic Content Module. This module allows you to create content outside of any particular page. You may then reference this content by simply dropping a control onto the page editor and selecting the content id. This is a wonderful solution for sharing content across pages. It also allows for easy translation.

WordPress 2.9 unfortunately does not have similar functionality to the Generic Content Module, so I set out to see how I can develop one on my own. Version 2.9 does not make this easy, since custom post types are not easy to create. The database supports them, but you are on your own in terms of (more…)