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.



Works Great

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

engipress

Engipress EasyQuery provides a clean, fluent interface for working with WP_Query. It makes writing custom loops in your themes faster, more readable, and less repetitive.
Basic Usage
Engieq::for(‘book’) 
 ->limit(12) 
 ->order_by(‘date’, ‘DESC’) 
 ->get_posts();
Available Methods (Free Version)
<ul>
<li>Engieq::for( $post_type ) – Start a new query for any post type</li>
<li>->limit( $number ) – Set number of posts to return</li>
<li>->paged() – Enable pagination support</li>
<li>->order_by( $orderby, $order ) – Set ordering (date, title, menu_order, etc.)</li>
<li>->get() – Return full WP_Query object</li>
<li>->get_posts() – Return array of post objects</li>
</ul>
This plugin is designed for developers who build custom themes from scratch and want cleaner query code without heavy dependencies.
Pro Version 
For advanced features including taxonomy & meta filtering, caching, code export, and more, see Engipress EasyQuery Pro (https://engipress.com/plugins/engipress-easyquery-pro/).

Engipress EasyQuery

Clean and fluent WP_Query helpers for developers building custom WordPress themes from scratch.

Monster Widget vs Engipress EasyQuery