### “Content Manager for WordPress” Documentation by “OTWthemes”

# “Content Manager for WordPress”

Created: 01/04/2014
By: OTWthemes
Email: use our CodeCanyon profile page

Thank you for purchasing this item. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please email us via our user page contact form here. We'd be glad to help you. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist.

## Table of Contents

- Description
- Installation and Activation
- Build Responsive Layouts with OTW Grid Manager
- Shortcodes
- Insert Shortcodes Anywhere
- OTW Front-end Grid Manager
- OTW Content Sidebars
- Custom Shortcodes
- Imported Shortcodes
- Styling and Skins
- Insert WordPress Widgets Anywhere
- Translation/Localization
- Additional Information

### Description - top

Build custom responsive layouts, insert shortcodes and sidebars. Tons of shortcodes and options. Add left and right sidebars to your layouts. Edit your content in the front-end of your site. Insert shortcodes and sidebars anywhere in your site.

### Installation and Activation - top

Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded from CodeCanyon. Look for a file called otw_content_manager.zip. This is your plugin's zip file.
Install the plugin just like any other Wordpress plugin. There are two ways to do that:

- Using WordPress built-in installer
From the Administration Panels, click on the Plugins tab. Go to Add New->Upload. Choose the plugin's .zip file from your computer and click Install Now. Then click activate to activate the plugin.
- Traditional manual installation
Extract zip archive of your plugin. Upload to your server in the wp-content/plugins folder of your WordPress installation. Access the Plugin Panel in your Administration Panels. Scroll down through the list of Plugins to find the newly installed Plugin. Click on the Activate link to turn the Plugin on.

### Build Responsive Layouts with OTW Grid Manager - top

Here is what the process is:

- Create a new page.
- Create your layout - go to the OTW Grid Manager metabox bellow your page content editor
- Insert content(shortcodes) in your layout

Check out the how to build responsive layouts with the OTW Grid Manager video.

### Shortcodes - top

#### What are shortcodes?

Shortcodes are short bits of code that can generate different content for your site. More info in the WordPress shortcodes codex.

#### OTW Shortcodes add/edit interfaces, no coding

Sometimes shortcodes can be hard to write especially if they are pretty complex and have many options. That's why we've created very nice and intuitive interfaces for all shortcodes. You can create and edit shortcodes easily, with no coding at all.

#### Shortcodes list

If you want to add your own shortcodes or the shortcodes from your theme or another plugin read the sections bellow.

### Insert Shortcodes Anywhere - top

Insert Shortcodes anywhere in your site:

- WYSIWYG content editor for your pages/posts/custom post types
- OTW Grid Manager in your page/post edit screen
- OTW Shortcodes Widget can generate shortcodes in a widget so you can place it in any sidebar
- Theme/plugin template files by using the WordPress do_shortcode function

### OTW Front-end Grid Manager - top

The OTW Front-end Grid Manager allows you to edit and re-arrange your layouts while you are in the front-end of your site. No need to go to your WorPress admin area. It’s much easier and faster.

Check out the OTW Front-end Grid Manager video.

### OTW Content Sidebars - top

OTW Content Sidebars are positions that you can set and use to add sidebars to your pages/posts content area. You can set the defaults for you post and pages. If you want a different configuration for a certain page or post you can override defaults from the OTW Content Sidebar metabox when you edit that page or post.
Please note that OTW Content Sidebars are part of the content area. So if you have any theme sidebars (not in the content) they will be displayed as well.
When you use OTW Content Sidebars for pages it is best to use a full width page. If your theme does not have such template you can copy otw-full-width-page.php from the /templates folder of the Sidebar Widget Manager plugin and past it in your theme folder. Go to "Add new page" in your WP administration. You should now see "OTW page full width" in your Template's dropdown. Please note that there is no guarantee this file will work as is since page templates are very theme specific and it might require some modifications.

Check out the OTW Content Sidebars video.

### Custom Shortcodes - top

Custom Shortcodes are an easy way to add your own shortcode that you will be able to use in the OTW interface along with the other OTW shortcodes. You will be also able to place them in your page/post content editor and anywhere in your template files too.

### Imported Shortcodes - top

Import shortcodes from other plugins and your theme so you can use them in the Content Manager plugin interfaces. For example you have a [mygallery] shortcode that generates a gallery and you want to use that gallery in a custom page layout created with the Content Manager plugin. Import that shortcode so you can have it in the interface along with the other OTW shortcodes.

### Styling and Skins - top

### Insert WordPress Widgets Anywhere - top

All default WordPress widgets are now available as shortcodes.

### Translation/Localization - top

This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards. It can be easily translated or localized in other languages different than English. We have included .po/.mo files. All language files are located in /language folder.

Here is a list of available transtations:

- English - default
- Spanish - by Maria Ramos from Webhostinghub.com

If you'd like to see your translation distributed with the plugin please contact us.
All language files are located in /language folder. To set a language different than English, open your wp-config.php file and set the WPLANG to the language you want, for example with spanish:
define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

### Additional Information - top

Once again, thank you for purchasing this item. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please email us via our user page contact form here. We'd be glad to help you. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist.

If you like this item please consider rating it as a way of supporting consistent improvements.

If you have a more general question relating to the items on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

OTWthemes

Go To Table of Contents