Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and d …
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Customize Plugin Manager version 0.2 as active, updated 5y ago and tested up to WordPress 5.7.
Overview
About this plugin
Live preview in the customizer allows you to see what plugins do to your site instantly. This experimental plugin brings the ability to activate and deactivate plugins from within the customizer. Plugin installation and updates could be a potential future phase depending on the success of this experiment.
Unfortunately, the customizer preview cannot currently reflect changes to the active plugins list. Additionally, plugins are not sandboxed – broken plugins activated from here could break your site. Use this plugin with caution.
However, changes are not published to your live site until you “Save and Publish,” and the plugin manager does functionally activate and deactivate plugins. Preview functionality requires hooking into WordPress before plugins are loaded (for obvious reasons), which isn’t possible to do within a plugin.
org/ticket/40451 for additional discussion.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
customize
plugins
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 5.7
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 5.7.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to5.7
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.8 · PHP not listed
Update activity27 Feb 20215y ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
No tracked version or compatibility changes have been recorded by WP PlugIndex yet.
Tracking & source
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