Lab features and a testbed for improvements to Widgets and the Customizer.
As of April 2026, Customize Widgets Plus is a WordPress widgets plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: One Click Demo Import.
This plugin consists of lab features and a testbed for improvements to Widgets and the Customizer.
Requires PHP 5.3+.
Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests welcome. Please see issues reported there before going to the plugin forum.
Current features:
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 WP_Widget does not explicitly add_option(... 'no' ) before calling update_option(), 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 tota…
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
Add Widget Posts module. See changelog.
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