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Customize Snapshots
Provide a UI for managing Customizer changesets; save changesets as named drafts, schedule for publishing; inspect in admin and preview on frontend.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 500+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 16 Nov 2017
- Added
- Nov 2015
- Requires WP
- 4.7
- Tested up to
- WP 4.9.31
- Requires PHP
- 5.3
- Downloads
- 30,838
Our analysis
AI-assistedCustomize Snapshots is a WordPress plugin that allows you to save the state of the Customizer at a specific time, enabling you to draft and schedule changes for future publishing. It serves as a prototype for changesets, a feature that was integrated into WordPress core starting from version 4.7.
The plugin is designed for users who want to manage and preview changes in the Customizer effectively. It works well with the Customizer Browser History for better navigation and previewing of changes across different devices.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users who want to manage and schedule Customizer changes.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows saving Customizer state as drafts
- ✓Enables scheduling of changes for future publishing
- ✓Works effectively with Customizer Browser History
- ✓Development is ongoing with contributions welcomed on GitHub
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2017
- •Limited to WordPress versions up to 4.9.31
- •User interface remains largely unchanged despite core integration
Verdict
Customize Snapshots provides useful functionality for managing Customizer changes, but its outdated status may limit its effectiveness for newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
Weston Ruter's own description of Customize Snapshots, lightly tidied.
Customize Snapshots is the feature plugin which prototyped Customizer changesets; this feature was merged as part of WordPress 4.7. The term “snapshots” was chosen because the Customizer feature revolved around saving the state (taking a snapshot) of the Customizer at a given time so that the changes could be saved as a draft and scheduled for future publishing.
While the plugin’s technical infrastructure for changesets was merged in WordPress 4.7, the user interface still remains largely in the Customize Snapshots plugin, in which we will continue to iterate and prototype features to merge into core.
For a rundown of all the features, see the screenshots below as well as the 0.6 release video:
This plugin works particularly well with Customizer Browser History, which ensures that URL in the browser corresponds to the current panel/section/control that is expanded, as well as the current URL and device being previewed.
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.
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industry
Bookstore & Publishing
purpose
Backup & Restore
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