Automattic

Lance Willett

Michael Fields

The Monster widget consolidates all 13 core widgets into a single widget enabling theme developers to create multiple instances with ease. It has been created to save time during theme development and review by minimizing the steps needed to populate a sidebar with widgets. The Monster widget is not designed for use in production.

Monster Widget

This is a great tool for theme testing.



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Provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes.

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Block Widgets Monster is a free WordPress plugin that will allow you to test multiple WordPress and/or WooCommerce block/legacy widgets with ease.
Here is a list of supported widgets.
WordPress legacy widgets:
<ul>
<li>Archives (2 instances – list and dropdown)</li>
<li>Calendar</li>
<li>Categories (2 instances – list and dropdown)</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Meta</li>
<li>Nav menu</li>
<li>Recent comments</li>
<li>Recent posts</li>
<li>RSS</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>Text (with content for theme unit test)</li>
<li>Tag cloud</li>
</ul>
WordPress block widgets:
<ul>
<li>Archives (2 instances – list and dropdown)</li>
<li>Calendar</li>
<li>Categories (2 instances – list and dropdown)</li>
<li>Latest comments (2 instances – list with/without avatar)</li>
<li>Latest posts (2 instances – list with/without image)</li>
<li>Login/out (2 instances – link and form)</li>
<li>Page list</li>
<li>RSS</li>
<li>Social icons</li>
<li>Search (5 instances – button inside/outside, button with icon/text and only text field)</li>
<li>Tag cloud</li>
</ul>
WooCommerce legacy widgets:
<ul>
<li>Cart</li>
<li>Product search</li>
<li>Layered nav filter</li>
<li>Layered nav (2 instances – list and multiselect dropdown)</li>
<li>Price filter</li>
<li>Product categories (2 instances – list and dropdown)</li>
<li>Product tag cloud</li>
<li>All products (3 instances – all, featured and on sale)</li>
<li>Recent reviews</li>
<li>Recently viewed products</li>
<li>Top rated products</li>
</ul>
WooCommerce block widgets:
<ul>
<li>All reviews</li>
<li>Featured category</li>
<li>Featured product</li>
<li>Hand picked products</li>
<li>Best selling products</li>
<li>Product categories (3 instances – list with/without image and dropdown)</li>
<li>Products by category</li>
<li>Newest products</li>
<li>On sale products</li>
<li>Products by attribute</li>
<li>Top rated products</li>
<li>Product search (5 instances – button inside/outside, button with icon/text and only text field)</li>
<li>Products by tag</li>
<li>Filter products by price (2 instances – editable and regular price values)</li>
<li>Filter products by stock</li>
<li>Mini cart</li>
</ul>
You can check out Block Widgets Monster plugin in action <a href="http://demo.rgblab.net/block-widgets-monster" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
Need help? Have feature request? Visit <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/block-widgets-monster" rel="ugc">support thread</a>.
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Block Widgets Monster

Quick and easy testing of multiple WordPress and/or WooCommerce block/legacy widgets. Not intended for production use.

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