The thing I am not able to do is simply create 4 fields under the main page admin where the owner can add different content to each fields.
Like:
- Box 1 left
- Box 2 right
- Box 3 bottom left
- Box 4 bottom right

The site owner is not very technical and I can not use plug-ins or custom fields, it is just not as easy to use…

If only WordPress had Template Variables like MODx CMS or MODx CMS had a blogging system like WordPress….

But, on the wp-admin add/edit post page, the Magic-Fields form always appears, regardless of the page template you choose, right? Or not?

And, yeah, isn’t fax where good data goes to die a low-res death?

I’m now doing some crazier stuff. After I built that posting interface with Magic fields, I spread that data out as necessary. I’m using category-N.php and single-N.php (with a functions add_filter) to have special category and single post templates for just one part of the site I’m working on. My next step is going to be an implementation of Role-scoper to limit the access to that special category and custom write panel for just one user, so the one user can only post to that category (much like your add-new-musician example). Once I’m done defining post access I can set up an interface that will let my subcontractors auto-reg for level 0 accounts, so they can view content (like plan sheets and specification manuals) that I want to hide from other general contractors or plan rooms.

Since I work alone and I’ve got no one to geek out with, behold:
(please disregard the tabular data at the bottom of these examples, that’s a holdover. also: disregard template aesthetics
Old plans site, uses hand built php/csv style fread/write: http://is.gd/5TuUa
Same content using Magic-Fields as mentioned: http://is.gd/5TuVC
Same content using Magic-fields, custom page template, with that category in The Loop below it: http://is.gd/5TuYo
Same content using Magic-Fields, custom category-N.php template: http://is.gd/5Tv9O

Here’s a single post, using a custom single-N.php template: http://is.gd/5TveA
Here’s a different post, using the default single.php template: http://is.gd/5TvR4
The reason this was important is that the custom Magic Fields don’t appear within The Loop or the_content() you have to call them, so they aren’t going to show up in RSS on the default single.php. This is a huge hole for my usage and probably for yours…

What this all means is start to finish I can offload this job to a receptionist, have her post or edit the appropriate content for the plans site, and have that data automagically post to twitter and rss like normal. Saving us $$ in long distance faxing, and overhead emailing that same content to our subcontractors. Now the problem will be getting subcontractors on board, when their most impressive technology is a plain paper fax machine.

Cheers!

I still lean towards thinking that that type of functionality should be part of WordPress itself, not a plug-in that might break with each WP upgrade.

Hovering the ‘What’s this’ shows the tooltip text I defined when I set up the new fields in Magic Fields. It’s really slick! You can even change the type of fields, their default values, what category the post defaults to and which fields are required in order to publish.

Here’s my loop/field processing, it’s inelegant but I wanted to get it working before I prettied it up.:
Projects out to bid:

, Bids:
<?php echo " Estimator: “,$Estimator,”Addenda: “,$NumAdd,”
Prevailing
wage: “,$PrevWage,” Special Goals: “,$SpecialGoals; ?>

This wordpress.org post talks about applying tinymce to a custom content field. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331589

There’s also a plugin for it called more fields: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/