Panels Named Panes

This module provides an alternative Panel's renderer that renders panes as variables directly to custom layout templates. With the standard Panel's renderer, you are restricted to assigning panes to Panels regions--which is good for drag and drop layouts--but problematic when you want to use all the page manager goodness to create centralized semantic page layouts in code--particulalry when your HTML/CSS/JS devs are not Drupalists.

By design, this renderer ignores Panels admin region(s) and the pane order.

In the Panels admin site builders assign a variable to each pane, then in a custom layout front-end developers can print each pane directly in the custom layout's tpl.

This allows the site builder to assign arbitrary content to layouts (tpl's) and minimizes the front end developer's knowledge of Drupalisms.

This module must be be used in conjunction with custom Panels layouts. Custom layouts still needs to declare at least one region and an admin-only tpl to allow the Panels admin to still work.