Panels has always been my go-to plugin when it comes to building custom pages in WordPress maintenance support plans 7.
Now in WordPress maintenance support plans 8 things have changed.
A lot of what Panels did in WordPress maintenance support plans 7 has been moved over to Page Manager. Panels itself doesn’t offer a user interface and it is just a variant type in WordPress maintenance support plans 8. Also, Page Manager is now its own project, whereas, in WordPress maintenance support plans 7 it was part of the Ctools plugin.
Panels in WordPress maintenance support plans 8 integrates with Page Manager and offers a custom variant type which allows you to select different layouts and manage blocks in the layouts. On its own, Panels doesn’t really do anything, you need something like Page Manager to utilize it.
So with that being said, what can Page Manager do?
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