Weston Ruter

<p>This plugin consists of lab features and a testbed for improvements to Widgets and the Customizer.</p>
<p>Requires PHP 5.3+.</p>
<p><strong>Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-widgets-plus" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-widgets-plus/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> reported there before going to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/customize-widgets-plus" rel="ugc">plugin forum</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Current features:</p>
<h4>Non-Autoloaded Widget Options</h4>
<p>Widgets are stored in options (normally). Multi-widgets store all of their instances in one big serialized array specific to that type. When there are many widgets of a given type, the size of the serialized array can grow very large. What’s more is that <code>WP_Widget</code> does not explicitly <code>add_option(... 'no' )</code> before calling <code>update_option()</code>, and so all of the settings get added with autoloading. This is very bad when using Memcached Object Cache specifically because it can result in the total <code>alloptions</code> cache key to become larger than 1MB and result in Memcached failing to store the value in the cache. On WordPress.com the result is a <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/vip-quickstart/blob/master/www/wp-content/mu-plugins/alloptions-limit.php" rel="nofollow ugc">“Matt’s fault” error</a> which has to be fixed by the VIP team. Widget settings should not be stored in serialized arrays to begin with; each widget instance should be stored in a custom post type. But until this is done we should stop autoloading options. See also <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26876" rel="nofollow ugc">#26876</a> and <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23909" rel="nofollow ugc">#23909</a>.</p>
<h4>Widget Number Incrementing</h4>
<p>Implements fixes for Core issue <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32183" rel="nofollow ugc">#32183</a> (Widget ID auto-increments conflict for concurrent users). The stored widget_number option provides a centralized auto-increment number for whenever a widget is instantiated, even widgets in the Customizer that are not yet saved.</p>
<h4>Efficient Multidimensional Setting Sanitizing</h4>
<p>Settings for multidimensional options and theme_mods are extremely inefficient to sanitize in Core because all of the Customizer settings registered for the subsets of the <code>option</code> or <code>theme_mod</code> need filters that are added to the entire value, meaning sanitizing one single setting will result in all filters for all other settings in that <code>option</code>/<code>theme_mod</code> will also get applied. This functionality seeks to improve this as much as possible, especially for widgets which are the worst offenders. Implements partial fix for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32103" rel="nofollow ugc">#32103</a>.</p>
<h4>HTTPS Resource Proxy</h4>
<p>When <code>FORCE_SSL_ADMIN</code> is enabled (such as on WordPress.com), the Customizer will load the site into the preview iframe using HTTPS as well. If, however, external resources are being referenced which are not HTTPS, they will fail to load due to the browser’s security model raise mixed content warnings. This functionality will attempt to rewrite any HTTP URLs to be HTTPS ones via a WordPress-based proxy.</p>
<h4>Widget Posts</h4>
<p>Store widget instances in posts instead of options. Requires trunk due to patch committed in <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32474" rel="nofollow ugc">#32474</a>. More details forthcoming…</p>


Customize Widgets Plus

Lab features and a testbed for improvements to Widgets and the Customizer.

Utkarsh

Derek Herman

Mohammad Taqui Sayed

newscorpau

<p>Customize Snapshots is the feature plugin which prototyped <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/12/customize-changesets-technical-design-decisions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Customizer changesets</a>; this feature was <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/12/customize-changesets-formerly-transactions-merge-proposal/" rel="nofollow ugc">merged</a> as part of WordPress 4.7. The term “snapshots” was chosen because the Customizer feature revolved around saving the state (taking a snapshot) of the Customizer at a given time so that the changes could be saved as a draft and scheduled for future publishing.</p>
<p>While the plugin’s technical infrastructure for changesets was merged in WordPress 4.7, the user interface still remains largely in the Customize Snapshots plugin, in which we will continue to iterate and prototype features to merge into core.</p>
<p>For a rundown of all the features, see the screenshots below as well as the 0.6 release video:</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/GH0xo7bTiSs?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 works particularly well with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/customizer-browser-history/" rel="ugc">Customizer Browser History</a>, which ensures that URL in the browser corresponds to the current panel/section/control that is expanded, as well as the current URL and device being previewed.</p>
<p>Requires PHP 5.3+. <strong>Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-snapshots" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-snapshots" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> reported there before going to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/customize-snapshots" rel="ugc">plugin forum</a>.</strong></p>


Customize Snapshots

This is a great plugin. It would be useful to expose the snapshots custom post type in the admin so that users can view the different snapshots, delete the ones they don't need, etc. Is this on the roadmap?



Really handy plugin, works as advertised

It is very professionally developed, I really like the idea and the implementation. Really useful plugin.

Awesome

Provide a UI for managing Customizer changesets; save changesets as named drafts, schedule for publishing; inspect in admin and preview on frontend.

Customize Widgets Plus vs Customize Snapshots