Powershell dynamically add a web part and set it's properties SharePoint

Having some fun today getting a bit further along with my Powershell scripts. Today I needed to dynamically add a SharePoint Document Library to each of my dashboard sites. In the newly created SitePages Document Library I needed to also have a Web Part Page with a Header Web Part Zone and the page needed to be named Dashboard.aspx.

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## CONTACT INFO ## ------------------------------------------------ ## CREATED   : 2013.03.30 ## MODIFIED  : ## AUTHOR    : Jason Lasby ## EMAIL     : digitalslavery@gmail.com ## ## DESCRIPTION ## ------------------------------------------------ ## Script to loop through a set of SharePoint Subsites and  create ## a new Document Library at each sub site named SitePages,& ## then add a page to this new SitePages Document Library ## named Dashboard.aspx ## ## EXPLAINATION ## ------------------------------------------------ ## This example illustrates how to dynamically loop ## through a set of sub sites and add a Document Library ## to each sub site and populate it with a web part page. ## ## BEGIN ## ------------------------------------------------ ## Load up the snapin so Powershell can work with SharePoint ## if the snapin was already loaded don't alert the user Add-PSSnapin microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue ## Clear any errors or output to the screen CLS ## Set variables ## This variable will be the site where I want to start $parentSite = "http://sp2010/dashboards"   $webPartProperty_Title = "Title Banner Web Part" $webPartProperty_ZoneName = "Header" $webPartProperty_Height = "80" $webPartProperty_Width = "" $webPartProperty_Visible = $true ## All content editor web parts will point to this script $webPartProperty_Link = "http://sp2010/dashboards/scripts/spservicesTest.txt"   Start-SPAssignment -Global $site = Get-SPWeb $parentSite $webSites = $site.Webs foreach($webSite in $webSites) {     $order = $webSite.Name     $page = $webSite.GetFile("/dashboards/$order/SitePages/Dashboard.aspx")     $webPartManager = $webSite.GetLimitedWebPartManager($page, [System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope]::Shared)  foreach($webPart in $webPartManager.WebParts)  {   $listOfAllWebParts = $webPart.Title  }  ## Check the page to see if the web part was already on it  if($listOfAllWebParts -eq $webPartProperty_Title)  {   Write-Host "$webSite already had web part on it."  }  ## Create the web part and set some of it's properties  else  {   $cewp = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart   $cewp.ContentLink = $webPartProperty_Link      $cewp.Title = $webPartProperty_Title      $cewp.Height = $webPartProperty_Height      $cewp.Width = $webPartProperty_Width   $cewp.Visible = $webPartProperty_Visible   $cewp.ChromeType = "None"      $cewp.HorizontalAlign = "Center"      ## The AddWebPart takes 3 arguments, first is the web part name,      ## then the zone id      ## and finally the order number where you want the web part to show in the zone      $webPartManager.AddWebPart($cewp, $webPartProperty_ZoneName, 0)      $webPartManager.SaveChanges($cewp)      $webSite.Dispose()   Write-Host "Webpart was created for Order $order"  } }   Stop-SPAssignment -Global