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Customize Posts

Edit posts and postmeta in the Customizer. Stop editing your posts/postmeta blind!

By Weston Ruter·Posts·Free
4.7(18 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years ago
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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….

4.7/518 reviews
1.0K+active installs
56K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.718 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Very useful for me !
by Flora Reda·3 years ago

This plugin saves my time and I think this plugin is very useful for customizing content posting!

👍
by Angel·3 years ago

It works great

i like it
by claudiodserra·8 years ago

not great but cool

It’s wordpress like!
by Joachim·8 years ago

Good Job! This is the right way to get more WYSIWYG when editing posts without losing the many possibilities of customization by plugins.

Looking Good.
by Siam ลอตเตอรี่·8 years ago·1 reply

It’s easy to see the preview post before publish it.
Thanks

Download Trends

Today: 8Yesterday: 6This week: 32Period total: 1K

Compatibility

WordPress4.7.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.0
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v0.9
98.3%
v0.8
1.7%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

[0.9.1] – [2017-11-13]

Fix saving of postmeta in scheduled changesets. See #375.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

XWPXWPMohammad Taqui SayedMohammad Taqui SayedWeston RuterWeston RuterDerek HermanDerek Herman
Plugin Info
Version
0.9.1
Last Updated
Nov 14, 2017
WP Requires
4.7.0+
Tested Up To
4.9.0
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
56K+
Added
Sep 17, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

postseditorpostmetacustomizecustomizer

Developer

W
Weston Ruter
26 plugins0.4M+ total installs
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