Customize Plus

Customize Plus brings powerful custom controls fully integrated in the WordPress Customize. The code, the admin UI and the API totally looks like WordPress, as it should be. Customize Plus extends the WordPress API to create all the controls you need leveraging the JavaScript API. All the theme_mods or options managed by Customize Plus controls are automatically validated and sanitized. You do not even need to define the fallback value when retrieving them. End users will also benefit from this plugin, for instance they will be able to separately reset the control values of each control to the initial session or factory value. This and many other features are extended in Customize Plus Premium enriching the Customize experience not only for developers but also for users. Developers will also find useful the plugin Customize Plus Builder to further improve their development experience.

Links

• Project page
• Documentation
• Development and issues on github
• Demo

What does this plugin do?

Improve the WordPress Customize experience both for theme developers and their users. Note that themes’ end users will not have any benefit without a theme that actively implements Customize Plus.

Who is this Plugin ideal for?

Anyone interested in using the WordPress Customize interface. Especially theme developers who want to build rich Customize experiences for their users.

Can I see a quick demo?

Yes, try out the always up to date official demo theme.

Features

• State of the art automatic sanitization and validation (both server and frontend side)
• Controls can be reset individually
• Automatic default value when retrieving settings via get_theme_mod or get_option
• Controls are lightweight and responsive
• Controls are rendered on demand (experimental opt-in)
• Markdown supported in control’s titles and descriptions
• Optional help text in tooltips (on each input choice for choice based controls)
• UI seamlessy fits into WordPress
• Code is clean and extendable via kkcp API
• Custom controls implemented
  1. text / email / url / tel / password
  2. textarea / wp_editor
  3. number
  4. toggle / switch / checkbox
  5. radio / radio image / buttonset
  6. multicheck / sortable multicheck
  7. slider
  8. color / alpha / palette / transparent
  9. font family / font weight
  10. select / dropdown / multiselect / sortable multiselect
  11. sortable
  12. tags / sortable tags
  13. icons / dashicons
  14. content / markdown / alert
  15. **WordPress native controls***
  16. dynamic color (Premium)
  17. dynamic size (Premium)
  18. datepicker (Premium)
  19. knob (Premium)
• COMING SOON: take a look at the roadmap here

Credits

Unless otherwise specified, all the plugin files are licensed under GNU General Public License version 3, see file license.txt. The exceptions to this license are as follows*:

• Modernizr by Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton, Ryan Seddon, Patrick Kettner, Stu Cox, Richard Herrera is licensed under the MIT License
• classList.js by Eli Grey is dedicated to the public domain
• css-toggle-switch by Ionuț Colceriu is licensed under the MIT license
• jQuery-ui-Slider-Pips by Simon Goellner is licensed under the MIT License
• locutus by Kevin van Zonneveld and Contributors is license under the MIT license
• marked.js by Christopher Jeffrey is licensed under the MIT License
• selectize.js by Brian Reavis is licensed under Apache v2.0
• spectrum by Brian Grinstead is licensed under the MIT License
• validator.js by Chris O’Hara is licensed under the MIT License

*All plugins included in Customize Plus adopt a GPL-compatible license as required by the WordPress.org plugins guidelines