I am building a Wordpress/Woocommerce site, and developing a plugin for it.

In the plugin I am including some PHP html templates and hooking them into Wordpress in various ways.

Is there a way to visually compose and store these page snippets/sections somehow so that they can be viewed and edited in admin, through a visual composer?

I am envisioning something like Wordpress' page designer/editor, except just for page sections/snippets.

Thanks in advance!

I am building a Wordpress/Woocommerce site, and developing a plugin for it.

In the plugin I am including some PHP html templates and hooking them into Wordpress in various ways.

Is there a way to visually compose and store these page snippets/sections somehow so that they can be viewed and edited in admin, through a visual composer?

I am envisioning something like Wordpress' page designer/editor, except just for page sections/snippets.

Thanks in advance!

• plugins
• php
• visual-editor

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I found that this can be done simply by using Wordpress' Page editor. Nothing else is needed:

1. Compose the content in Wordpress' Page editor
2. Save (but don't publish)
3. In your code, retrieve the saved content

By ID:

$id=47;
$post = get_post($id);
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); 
echo $content;

Or by page title:

$title = 'page title';
$page = get_page_by_title( $title );
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $page->post_content); 
echo $content;

Note that apply_filters is used in case there is a plugin somewhere that wants to "apply filters" to the_content - it's good for forwards compatibility.