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Customize Widgets Plus

Lab features and a testbed for improvements to Widgets and the Customizer.

By Weston Ruter·Widgets·Free
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·10 active installs·Updated 10 years ago
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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.

0/5Rating
10active installs
2.8K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

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:

Non-Autoloaded Widget Options

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPressfalse+ requiredTested up to false
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.2

Add Widget Posts module. See changelog.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Weston RuterWeston Ruter
Plugin Info
Version
0.2
Last Updated
Jun 3, 2015
WP Requires
false+
Tested Up To
false
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.8K+
Added
May 11, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

widgetscustomizecustomizer

Developer

W
Weston Ruter
26 plugins0.4M+ total installs
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