How to add ContentEditor Web Part in Page Layout?

Question

I Want to add Content Editor in my Page. This has to be done in Page layout. Hence any OOTB solution is not suitable. Any Suggestions?

<WebPartPages:ContentEditorWebPart
                webpart="true"
                runat="server"
               _WebPartId="{D2E2E9C9-554F-4C66-8AB8-07B6EE9D781D}"
               Title="Article Author"
               Description="Web Part Layout"
               PartImageLarge=""
               PartOrder="2"
               ID="g_d18920b4_6273_4d72_97ef_75404fdf7155"
               ChromeType="TitleOnly"
               ContentLink=""
                __WebPartId="{D18920B4-6273-4D72-97EF-75404FDF7155}">
               </WebPartPages:ContentEditorWebPart>

Answer 1

You can add Content Editor web part using Elements.xml file of the Page Layout module in Visual Studio.

You can add CEWP using AllUsersWebPart. Please add below code inside Pagelayout file tag as shown below:

<File Path="PageLayoutModule\DepartmentPageLayout.aspx" Url="PageLayoutModule/DepartmentPageLayout.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" ReplaceContent="TRUE" Level="Published">
      <Property Name="Title" Value="Department PageLayout"/>
      <Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype_pagelayout_name;" />
      <Property Name="PublishingPreviewImage" Value="~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/$Resources:core,Culture;/Preview Images/BlankWebPartPage.png, ~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/$Resources:core,Culture;/Preview Images/BlankWebPartPage.png" />
      <Property Name="PublishingAssociatedContentType" Value=";#$Resources:cmscore,contenttype_welcomepage_name;;#0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF390064DEA0F50FC8C147B0B6EA0636C4A7D4;#" />

      <AllUsersWebPart WebPartOrder="1" WebPartZoneID="Overview">
        <![CDATA[

<WebPart xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
  <Title>Overview Content</Title>
  <FrameType>None</FrameType>
  <ChromeType>None</ChromeType>
  <Description>Allows authors to enter rich text content.</Description>
  <IsIncluded>true</IsIncluded>
  <ZoneID>wp</ZoneID>
  <PartOrder>0</PartOrder>
  <FrameState>Normal</FrameState>
  <Height />
  <Width />
  <AllowRemove>true</AllowRemove>
  <AllowZoneChange>true</AllowZoneChange>
  <AllowMinimize>true</AllowMinimize>
  <AllowConnect>true</AllowConnect>
  <AllowEdit>true</AllowEdit>
  <AllowHide>true</AllowHide>
  <IsVisible>true</IsVisible>
  <DetailLink />
  <HelpLink />
  <HelpMode>Modeless</HelpMode>
  <Dir>Default</Dir>
  <PartImageSmall />
  <MissingAssembly>Cannot import this Web Part.</MissingAssembly>
  <PartImageLarge>/_layouts/images/mscontl.gif</PartImageLarge>
  <IsIncludedFilter />
  <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
  <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart</TypeName>
  <ContentLink xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ContentEditor" />
  <Content xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ContentEditor">

             &lt;div class=&quot;department-overview&quot;&gt;
            /// Your HTML Code here.
            &lt;/div&gt;

  </Content>
        <PartStorage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ContentEditor" />
        </WebPart>

        ]]>
      </AllUsersWebPart>

    </File>