Weston Ruter

<p>In WordPress 4.5 the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/16/selective-refresh-in-the-customizer/" rel="nofollow ugc">selective refresh</a> framework was introduced in core. One of the key concepts in this framework is the “partial”, the region in a document which is selectively refreshed when a related setting is modified. This means that one or more settings are linked with a given element in the preview. When selective refresh was first was introduced it supported the ability for a user to “shift click” on a partial to jump to and focus on the related control in the pane. In WordPress 4.7 this was then enhanced with <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/10/visible-edit-shortcuts-in-the-customizer-preview/" rel="nofollow ugc">visible edit shortcuts</a> so that users could click (touch even) on the icon to be able to reveal the control in the pane.</p>
<p>The Customize Inline Editing plugin builds on edit shortcuts by allowing the setting to be modified inline via direct manipulation in the preview without having focus removed and placed on the controls pane. This is particularly useful on <em>mobile devices</em> on small screens where a user cannot both see the controls and preview at the same time, as can be compared here:</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7WfSEtT8pc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>Inline editing in this way is also helpful for <em>accessibility</em> since keyboard focus remains in the preview at the element being edited, as can be seen in this demonstration of inline editing on a desktop browser:</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KesM3vo5WyE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>This plugin provides one example implementation of inline editing this can be accomplished in the customizer. Version 0.1 of this plugin from 2014 was a precursor in some ways to selective refresh, specifically in regards to how CSS selectors are associated with customizer settings.</p>
<p>Themes can opt-in to support this plugin’s inline editing within the customizer by assigning the appropriate type to the registered partials:</p>
<pre>
add_action( 'customize_register', function( $wp_customize ) {
    $opt_in_partials = array_filter( array(
        $wp_customize->selective_refresh->get_partial( 'blogname' ),
        $wp_customize->selective_refresh->get_partial( 'blogdescription' )
    ) );
    foreach ( $opt_in_partials as $partial ) {
        $partial->type = 'inline_editable';
    }
}, 100 );
</pre>
<p>Click on the edit shortcut to begin editing the element, with keyboard focus then given to the editable element. If the value has a server-side rendered value (e.g. where PHP filters like <code>wptexturize</code> apply to improve typography), the raw value will be supplied when editing starts. Editing can be completed by clicking out of the editable element, tabbing out of the element (blurring it), or clicking the edit icon which then appears as a “done” checkmark icon. You may also shift-click on an element to edit it.</p>
<p>Currently only basic text fields can currently be edited; styling and any tags added to <code>contentEditable</code> areas will be stripped out. Eventually rich text formatting may be allowed, specifically for integrations with the Text widget (via <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-js-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">JS Widgets</a>) or post content (via <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">Customize Posts</a>).</p>
<p>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/16/selective-refresh-in-the-customizer/" rel="nofollow ugc">selective refresh</a> writeup from 4.5 concludes with a section on a possible future for it and inline editing:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If we can eliminate full-page refreshes from being the norm for the Customizer, we can start to introduce controls inline with the preview. If the entire preview does not reload, then the inline controls won’t get destroyed by the refresh with each change. For example, consider a widget control floating immediately next to the widget in the sidebar it is editing. With selective refresh, it will then also be possible to <em>eliminate the Customizer altogether</em>. The Customizer could be available to anyone who is logged in, with the controls being bootstrapped on demand when a user wants to edit a given element. There would be no need to navigate way from a page on the frontend to enter a unique Customizer state: the Customizer would come to the user. Any controls not relevant to being inline could remain in the Customizer pane, but it could slide in only as needed instead of appearing by default. That is to say, selective refresh makes the Customizer a much better framework for implementing <strong>frontend editing</strong>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-inline-editing" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-inline-editing/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> reported there before going to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/customize-inline-editing" rel="ugc">plugin forum</a>.</strong></p>


Customize Inline Editing

Makes the whole text editing process smooth. From refresh to postMessage to inline editing awesome transition. Keep up the good work :)



Awesome

Demonstration of how inline editing can be implemented in the customizer.

Arthur Ronconi

Helmut Wandl

<p>Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface.</p>
<p><strong>🚀 PERFORMANCE</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#will%20the%20plugin%20become%20slower%20with%20more%20features%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20can%20the%20plugin%20be%20lightweight%20despite%20so%20many%20features%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>🔒 SECURITY</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20is%20the%20security%20of%20the%20plugin%20ensured%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS</strong><br />
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#what%20caused%20the%20two%20bad%20ratings%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p>—</p>
<h3>FEATURES</h3>
<p><strong>🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this.</p>
<h4>Admin Area</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend</li>
<li>Hide WordPress update message in dashboard</li>
<li>Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard</li>
<li>Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new</li>
<li>Customize the admin area branding 💥 new</li>
</ul>
<h4>Frontend</h4>
<ul>
<li>Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new</li>
<li>Add security HTTP headers 💥 new</li>
<li>Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)</li>
<li>Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags</li>
<li>Remove shortlink meta tag</li>
<li>Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag</li>
<li>Remove WordPress generator meta tag</li>
<li>Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)</li>
<li>Disable author pages</li>
<li>Remove wptexturize filter</li>
<li>Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new</li>
<li>Limit excerpt length</li>
<li>Add “Read more” link after excerpt</li>
<li>Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count</li>
<li>Protect email addresses from spam bots</li>
<li>Compress HTML code</li>
<li>Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)</li>
<li>Disable emoji image replacement</li>
</ul>
<h4>Editing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable posts auto saving</li>
<li>Limit post revisions 💥 new</li>
<li>Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new</li>
<li>Downsize images on upload to max size</li>
<li>Set JPEG quality</li>
<li>Add thumbnail support</li>
<li>Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)</li>
</ul>
<h4>System</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide default WordPress favicon</li>
<li>Disable comment system</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC 💥 new</li>
<li>Disable public REST API 💥 new</li>
<li>Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for core updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for plugin updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for theme updates</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display SQL queries and page load time</li>
<li>Create custom post types 💥 renewed</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show/hide deprecated features</li>
<li>Show/hide experimental features</li>
<li>Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics</li>
<li>Configure visibility of user guide</li>
</ul>
<p>Contribute on github: <a href="https://github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings</a></p>


Advanced Settings 3

Adds settings that you might expect to find in the WordPress core.

Customize Inline Editing vs Advanced Settings 3