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.

Kit Themes

<p>Using <strong>Customizely</strong> anyone can add custom controls to the customizer with easy to use drag and drop option builder. It can full fill your WordPress Customizer custom controls desire very easily. It’s simple to use user interface will help you to build options very easily. <strong>Customizely</strong> does not only add options to WordPress Customizer, but It also renders CSS for you. It supports 2 more responsive devices than default WordPress. Just try it and you will love it.</p>
<h4>Why you should use Customizely?</h4>
<p>Every theme doesn’t provide every option to customize your site. Contacting support to request a new option for the theme, it’s a long term process. Or you should hire a developer. It’s cost-effective. That’s why we built <strong>Customizely</strong>, fully drag and drop WordPress Customizer options builder. It will save money and time both. It comes with drag and drop builder, auto-generated CSS output, and 13 Customizer custom controls with responsive features.</p>
<h4>Drag and Drop. No coding knowledge required.</h4>
<p>Fully drag and drop WordPress Customizer options builder with a simple user interface. Anyone can build an option without any coding knowledge. It’s very easy to use.</p>
<h4>Auto-generated CSS output.</h4>
<p>WordPress Customizer brings the live editing feature. And <strong>Customizely</strong> extends this feature with auto-generated CSS. Every option can set for CSS output by just adding CSS selector and property. You can see every change in the live view.</p>
<h4>Responsive. Mobile First Editing.</h4>
<p>All controls have a mobile responsive feature. Turn one it with CSS and enjoy live design editing with 5 devices option. WordPress Customizer has 3 devices (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile) by default. <strong>Customizely</strong> extend it to 5 devices (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Mobile Landscape, and Mobile).</p>
<h4>Controls</h4>
<p><strong>Customizely</strong> comes with 11 controls and more controls are coming soon.</p>
<ul>
<li>Text</li>
<li>URL</li>
<li>Textarea</li>
<li>Checkbox</li>
<li>Radio</li>
<li>Select</li>
<li>Switch</li>
<li>Range</li>
<li>Number</li>
<li>Icon</li>
<li>Color</li>
<li>Media</li>
<li>Image Select</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Customizely</strong> also provides API for developers to add WordPress Customizer custom controls from there theme or plugin. Theme developer can use to build their theme options and give their customers to get the advantage of the drag and drop option builder.</p>


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