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Author: Jacob M Goldman (C. Murray Consulting)

Add a second block of HTML content to WordPress pages and / or posts. A perfect solution for layouts with two distinct content areas or "blocks", such as a sidebar or two column view. When editing content, a second WordPress WYSIWYG content editor will appear beneath the standard page editing block.

You can choose to add the feature to pages, posts, or both. When using with pages, you can optionally inherit secondary HTML content from the page's ancestory (parents, grandparents, etc). Perfect for section-wide sidebars.

The content in this second block can be used by adding the new widget ("Secondary HTML") to your sidebar, or calling in the content in your template.

To echo its content on the page, use the function the_content_2(). To retrieve the content without echoing it onto the page, use get_the_content_2(). Both functions optionally take a post ID parameter which, if provided, will return the secondary content for that page or post. When no page ID is provided, the functions will attempt to retrieve the secondary content for the current page or post.

Future updates will include an optional global widget heading.