Manually rendering ctools-content-type

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<?
  ctools_include('plugins');
  ctools_include('context');
  ctools_include('content');

  $plugin_id = 'super_pane';
  $plugin = ctools_get_plugins('ctools','content_types', $this->options['field'], $plugin_id);

  $conf = array() // array of configuration to pass to the content-type

  $entity = node_load(1) // Create a context, if required
  
  $context_id = 'node'; // As defined by the content-type plugun
  
  if ($entity) {
    $entity_context = ctools_context_create($context_id, $entity);
    $entity_context->identifier = t('This @id', array('@id' => $context_id));
    $entity_context->keyword = $context_id;
    
    $context = array($context_id => $entity_context);
    $conf['context'] = $context_id;
    
    $ctools_content = ctools_content_render($plugin_id, $plugin_id, $conf, array(), array(), $context);
  }
  else {
    $context = array();
    $ctools_content = ctools_content_render($plugin_id, $plugin_id, $conf);
  }

  return $ctools_content->content;
  
?>