Content elements for wordpress - wordpress

Question

I'm looking for a plugin (or better yet, not a plugin) for wordpress that lets me generate standard content elements, or includes for posts and pages.
For example, my_content_1 could be:
buy it now for $23!!
Which could then be included in posts and pages using some kind of syntax (or whatever) like:
Welcome to my site, blah blah blah.. check out this product - %my_content_1%
Not looking for anything fancy, anything that does this sort of thing would be awesome.
The point of this being much like a regular php include I could have the same information updated in one place and applied over many pages/posts.
I found something that is pretty much what I'm looking for:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reusables/
However, other suggestions would be good as I'm not too confident in the quality of the code for that plugin.

Answer 1

Not sure about a plugin, but how about simply creating something yourself? If you created a PHP page and set up variables such as
$content->title = "This is a title"
$content->smallText = "Insert some short paragraph here"
And then just include it in your header? You could store it in your theme directory and then call it like so
<?php $themeFolder = get_bloginfo("template_url"); ?>
<?php include($themeFolder."/content.php") ?>
Would that be suitable?

Answer 2

How about creating a few files and link them in using shortcode?
ie: open your themes/functions.php file add this..
<?php
function wp_my_shortcodes($atts)
{
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'type' => '', //author, rss, adverts
), $atts));
switch($type) {
case 'author' : $display = wp_display_author_info(); break;
case 'rssview' : $display = wp_display_rss_info(); break;
case 'adverts' : $display = wp_display_adverts(); break;
default : $display = wp_display_author_info(); break;
}
return $display ;
}
add_shortcode('mycontent', wp_my_shortcodes);
function wp_display_author_info()
{
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/my_author_info.php');
}
function wp_display_rss_info()
{
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/my_rss_info.php');
}
function wp_display_adverts()
{
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/my_adverts.php');
}
?>
using shortcodes inside your posts you can then bring in which ever piece of content that you want.. in the example above I've created 3 pages in the template root folder called
my_author_info.php, my_rss_info.php, my_adverts.php all of which speak for themself..
my_author_info.php
this page could use the the_author_meta() to populate a div box with included author info,
my_rss_info.php
include your subscription box to let users subscribe to your blog
my_adverts.php
include 4x 125x125 adverts?
so in the post i could use
[mycontent type='author']
[mycontent type='rssview']
[mycontent type='adverts']
if no argument is added to the shortcode then the default view is shown, in this case..
[mycontent]
would return the authorview as default...
this would then include that file in the content...
just remember to create the included files :)

Answer 3

I found something that is pretty much what I'm looking for:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reusables/