If you thought you are content with having the freedom to apply custom HTML code anywhere on your wordpress posts, eventually you will try to find ways to implement them without manually repeating the process of copy and paste.  If you want more than just widgets, then Post Layout Pro allows you more control where you inject your code, whether it be simple text to AdSense Javascript, from subscription form fields to PHP code. And you can also choose which post category the code will appear if you prefer more control for your layout.

Post Layout Pro plugin Features

Here are the features as shown by plugin creator Stefano Lissa at satallo.net

• mobile detection system (lets you to differentiate the code to be “injected” when the blog is accessed by mobile devices)
• three injection positions for posts: before, in the middle and after the post content
• post level ability to suspend the injection (overall or for each position)
• two injection position for pages and posts when displayed on home page, category pages, tag pages: above and below the content
• per category code: you can inject different things in different categories (for multi categorized posts, the first one returned by WordPress is used)
• last comment code injection: what about to put an AdSense block after the last comment?
• comment form code injection
• generic code blocks to be used thought the category configurations with auto offline date
• compatible with Post Layout: if you’re using the free version of Post Layout you can update to the Pro version and the settings are kept

A Walkthrough on Using Post Layout Pro plugin

Now what I love about this plugin is that you can inject php code, shortcode and html all at once within your posts which I thought was possible for widgets only.  I often find a tutorial on how to modify your single.php, but I try as much as possible to avoid modifying my theme and just do it externally using plugins.  I’m going to show you how I used this plugin that widgets cant do.  It makes the job easier in modifying posts with different categories.

Let’s say you want to add a tweetbox after every post as a default setting in Post Layout Pro

This is how your setting will look like in all your posts:

Using different codes for posts from another category

Just as an example, you have a tech blog like The Game of Life with a mix of different categories like iPhone, graphic design and games.  And you want to let Post Layout Pro add a designgizer vote button on the graphic design category only.  Naturally the vote button wouldnt be appropriate in games, so we assign it to this category instead.  here is how you add the vote button code to graphic design for example.

And this is how every post under graphic design would look like in the footer:

Merging the codes from another category

The vote button looks lonely by itself so you decide to have both the tweetbox and vote button in the design category while the default contains the tweetbox only which you already added earlier.  You can import your default settings by typing the shortcode of the category [default] together with your vote button code like below.

You’re free to experiment which code goes first inside the field.  It will reflect on your post after it is saved.  Now you have both the vote button and tweetbox displayed.

Post Layout Pro is a huge time-saver

Before I had this plugin, I was using the pure HTML version of the designgizer vote button.  So whenever I make a post under graphic design, I had to open another post I made in the same category to copy the code from there.  Other than that I had to copy/paste the url of my permalink to my button code.  This is the only way I knew since I dont like editing my single.php so much.  I used to have the Post Layout free version but its limited to HTML only.  Post Layout Pro supports HTML, shortcode, PHP and text plus a ton of cool features mentioned above. Now, I’m using the php version of the vote button which allows me to automatically add the permalink everytime.  No more coding mess inside your post editor :)   This can also be useful for displaying ads, if you want design ads to appear in the design category or iPhone ads in the iPhone category.

To get this plugin with access to their downloads section, you need to sign up at satallo.net.  Membership costs $19.95 recurring every year with full support.   It’s definitely worth the money, and no need to worry about missing a piece of code when you publish a post when it’s already pre-configured in Post Layout Pro.

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