Title: Customize Widgets Plus
Author: Weston Ruter
Published: <strong>mai 11, 2015</strong>
Last modified: juni 3, 2015

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# Customize Widgets Plus

 By [Weston Ruter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/)

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## Description

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](https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-widgets-plus).
Pull requests welcome. Please see [issues](https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-widgets-plus/issues)
reported there before going to the [plugin forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/customize-widgets-plus).**

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 total `alloptions` cache key to become larger than 1MB and result in Memcached
failing to store the value in the cache. On WordPress.com the result is a [“Matt’s fault” error](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-quickstart/blob/master/www/wp-content/mu-plugins/alloptions-limit.php)
which has to be fixed by the VIP team. Widget settings should not be stored in serialized
arrays to begin with; each widget instance should be stored in a custom post type.
But until this is done we should stop autoloading options. See also [#26876](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26876)
and [#23909](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23909).

#### Widget Number Incrementing

Implements fixes for Core issue [#32183](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32183)(
Widget ID auto-increments conflict for concurrent users). The stored widget_number
option provides a centralized auto-increment number for whenever a widget is instantiated,
even widgets in the Customizer that are not yet saved.

#### Efficient Multidimensional Setting Sanitizing

Settings for multidimensional options and theme_mods are extremely inefficient to
sanitize in Core because all of the Customizer settings registered for the subsets
of the `option` or `theme_mod` need filters that are added to the entire value, 
meaning sanitizing one single setting will result in all filters for all other settings
in that `option`/`theme_mod` will also get applied. This functionality seeks to 
improve this as much as possible, especially for widgets which are the worst offenders.
Implements partial fix for [#32103](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32103).

#### HTTPS Resource Proxy

When `FORCE_SSL_ADMIN` is enabled (such as on WordPress.com), the Customizer will
load the site into the preview iframe using HTTPS as well. If, however, external
resources are being referenced which are not HTTPS, they will fail to load due to
the browser’s security model raise mixed content warnings. This functionality will
attempt to rewrite any HTTP URLs to be HTTPS ones via a WordPress-based proxy.

#### Widget Posts

Store widget instances in posts instead of options. Requires trunk due to patch 
committed in [#32474](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32474). More details
forthcoming…

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Customize Widgets Plus” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Weston Ruter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/)

[Translate “Customize Widgets Plus” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/customize-widgets-plus)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customize-widgets-plus/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/customize-widgets-plus/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/customize-widgets-plus/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/customize-widgets-plus/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.2

Add Widget Posts module. See [changelog](https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-widgets-plus/compare/0.1...0.2).

#### 0.1

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2**
 *  Last updated **11 ár ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Language
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 * Tags
 * [customize](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/customize/)[customizer](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/customizer/)
   [widgets](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/customize-widgets-plus/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Weston Ruter ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/)

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