Nick Halsey

Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and deactivate plugins from within the customizer. Plugin installation and updates could be a potential future phase depending on the success of this experiment.
Unfortunately, the customizer preview cannot currently reflect changes to the active plugins list. Additionally, plugins are not sandboxed – broken plugins activated from here could break your site. Use this plugin with caution. However, changes are not published to your live site until you “Save and Publish,” and the plugin manager does functionally activate and deactivate plugins. Preview functionality requires hooking into WordPress before plugins are loaded (for obvious reasons), which isn’t possible to do within a plugin.
See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40451 for additional discussion.

Customize Plugin Manager

Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and d …

WPZOOM

nvartolomei

Reset theme customizations made via WordPress Customizer with enhanced safety features. Works with 99% of themes, including <a href="https://www.wpzoom.com/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPZOOM themes</a> and popular themes like Inspiro, Divi, Astra, GeneratePress.
This plugin removes all theme modifications that are registered via Customizer API, with the added safety of backup, export, and import capabilities.
Works with all themes and plugins that use theme_mod settings type for storing modifications.
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Please keep in mind that some themes uses different method to save customizer settings, <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/customizer-reset-by-wpzoom/" rel="ugc">let us know</a> if this plugin isn’t compatible with your theme.
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<h4>📌 What’s new in version 2.0.?</h4>
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<li>NEW: Redesigned UI & New Customizer Section</li>
<li>NEW: Import/Export Settings – Dual format support (JSON and DAT)</li>
<li>NEW: Additional CSS Support – Optional reset checkbox and included in all exports</li>
<li>NEW: Backup & Reset – Automatically create a backup before resetting (5 rotating backups)</li>
<li>NEW: Backup History – View and restore from the last 5 backups</li>
<li>NEW: GeneratePress Theme compatibility – Including dynamic CSS cache clearing</li>
<li>Improved UX with customizer section panel and inline notifications</li>
<li>Added translation support</li>
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<h3>Get Involved</h3>
Looking to contribute code to this plugin? Go ahead and <a href="https://github.com/wpzoom/customizer-reset" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the repository over at GitHub</a>.
<h4>🙌 FOLLOW US</h4>
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<li>🐦 <a href="https://x.com/wpzoom" rel="nofollow ugc">X</a></li>
<li>📘 <a href="https://facebook.com/wpzoom" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></li>
<li>📘 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpzoom" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook Group</a></li>
<li>🌄 <a href="https://instagram.com/wpzoom" rel="nofollow ugc">Instagram</a></li>
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Customizer Backup & Reset

Fantabulous!

When developing themes this plugin makes it easier to test changes to customizer options.

Must have for theme development and testing

Reset theme customizations made via WordPress Customizer with backup, export, and import features.

Customize Plugin Manager vs Customizer Backup & Reset