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Media2Layout facilitates the dynamic inclusion of media library artwork into predefined places in your site’s theme. It creates named positions (by default “campaign” and “header”) which can be assigned a media item per each Page.
<ul>
<li>Adds an admin menu item under Themes to edit your Position names</li>
<li>Adds a dropdown control when editing Pages to select the images for each Position in that Page</li>
</ul>
To insert the images into your theme, just add a bit of PHP code to your theme in the appropriate spot, for example:
<pre><code><?php Media2Layout::banner('foo');?> </code></pre>
For the position named “foo” this would print an tag for the media assigned to the Foo position of the current page (or print nothing if no media is assigned to that position). Currently it wraps the in a
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div> with class “media2layout_[position-name]”.

Media2Layout

This plugin facilitates the dynamic inclusion, on a per-Page basis, of media library artwork into predefined places in your site's theme.

PageSpot uses private Pages as groups of content to be inserted in various 
other places in your Page or theme. By default it creates two special 
private Pages:
PageSpot Snippets are pieces of another Page. To create a new snippet, 
just 
create a child Page of the [PageSpot] Page Snippets page. PageSpot will 
ensure your new snippet remains Private and inaccessible on its own. 
PageSpot then expects you to assign the snippet to a Spot on one of your 
public Pages.
To do that, you will first need to create custom templates in your theme 
directory. If you create a template with “pagespot” in the name, and select 
it in the Page editor, the PageSpot admin box will become active for that 
Page. PageSpot will parse the template for annotations that look like 
“[[PageSpot:Foo]]”, and allow you to assign a PageSpot Snippet to the 
“Foo” spot.
The final result is that when viewed from the front end, your Page will have 
the assigned snippet Page’s content inserted in place of your [[PageSpot]] 
annotation. This lets you build up complex layouts for a Page, composed of 
other Pages. content which you can edit and replace independent of each 
other.
Sidebar Items are pages that together comprise a sidebar for your theme. 
To create a sidebar, just create a private Page named “[Sidebar] Foo”. All 
child pages of that page constitute the Foo sidebar. PageSpot will add a 
meta-box in the Page Edit screen to select the sidebar to use for the 
current Page. Adding some simple PHP code to your sidebar template is all 
you then need to bring this functionality into your custom theme:
<pre><code><?php PageSpot::print_sidebar(); ?>
</code></pre>

PageSpot

PageSpot facilitates more complex layout options for Pages, and dynamically assignable sidebar content on a per-Page basis.

Media2Layout vs PageSpot