Setting the right modular enviroment

Hello forum – long time watcher, first time poster.

I have been using wordpress for the past two to three years and build 50+ sites with the help of wordpress. Both in a work environment and personal – its easy to work with and to understand for newcomers. Most of the time I have been satisfied with my use of wordpress, however often and again the problem arises; modular content.

Lets take the specific case; our company has four editors on the current website, all writing content, posting blogs, uploading images etc. Our new design, which i just made based on 3.2.1 needs to support blocks of information (text, links, autogenerated text/lists, etc), which are different from each page (like on the frontpage, the product-page, blog page etc). It is required that there are total editorial freedom to these blocks of information, but that I as the developer, will encapsule the creativeness of the editors in small fields – depending on the type of block (we have like 6 or 9 types).

Now, there are numereous ways i can solve this problem;

1. Create more WP-editor fields with a plugin like “More-Fields” (Custom meta editing) – this would however limit the number of “blocks” available to insert, aswell as the content they hold (there are currently no plugin to design the use of custom meta, on a page-level / active dropdown menu – level). So we would be limited to either 1 type or 1 very very generic type (and copied several times).

2. Create a custom post-type and “attach” these (via custom meta, tags or categories) to the pages I want them to show up in. This gives the freedom of limitless blocks – but doesn’t make the block content scale well (If i need some blocks to be products, others to be banners – again some to be links to all my pages like widgets).

3. Use something like “Widget-logic” and ‘Widget’ my way out of trouble. This would give me the scalability of the widget, and the freedom of creating my own for specific purposes. However: This required the editors to enter the widget section, make a new Text widget, enable it – and write wordpress logic – a thing i know they wont be able to do.

So what i need, as of this moment – badly (and to be honest, ive needed it all my WP-life) – is On Page Editing Of Widgets – that is Widgets I can add, to a page, when i edit the page, and with specific page content – but with the possibility of adding widgets from other pages – quite frankly exactly like media is designed. This will give the total modular freedom – what Ive needed from WP a long time.

Does anyone know of such a plugin / feature ? ??