Edit posts and postmeta in the Customizer. Stop editing your posts/postmeta blind!
As of April 2026, Customize Posts is a WordPress posts plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 60% this week. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
This is a feature plugin intended to implement #34923: Introduce basic content authorship in the Customizer.
The goal for this plugin is to be able to expose the editing of posts and pages in the Customizer, allowing you to edit post data and postmeta for any number of posts, and preview the changes before saving them for others to see. This plugin was birthed out of the Widget Customizer feature-as-plugin project which was merged into WordPress Core: as widgets (in 3.9) and nav menus (4.3) can now be managed in the Customizer, so too should posts and pages be editable in the Customizer as well.
Did you know that changing the featured image actually makes the change live even before you save the post? This is very surprising/unexpected behavior. The only way to truly preview a change to a…
This plugin saves my time and I think this plugin is very useful for customizing content posting!
It works great
not great but cool
Good Job! This is the right way to get more WYSIWYG when editing posts without losing the many possibilities of customization by plugins.
It’s easy to see the preview post before publish it.
Thanks
| WordPress | 4.7.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Fix saving of postmeta in scheduled changesets. See #375.
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