JS Widgets Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download

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Plugin Description

Also could be known as Widget Customizer 2.0, Widgets 3.0, or Widgets Next Generation.

This plugin implements:

• WP-CORE#33507: Allow widget controls to be JS-driven.
• WP-CORE#35574: Add REST API JSON schema information to WP_Widget.
• WP-API#19: Add widget endpoints to the WP REST API.

Plugin Dependencies:

• WordPress REST API v2
• Customize Setting Validation (recommended)

Features:

• Widget instance settings in the Customizer are exported from PHP as regular JSON without any PHP-serialized base64-encoded encoded_serialized_instance.
• Customizer settings can be directly mutated via JavaScript instead of needing to do an update-widget Admin Ajax roundtrip; this greatly speeds up previewing.
• Widget have a technology-agnostic JS API for building their forms, allowing Backbone, React, or any other frontend technology to be used for managing the form.
• Compatible with widgets stored in a custom post type instead of options, via the Widget Posts module in the Customize Widgets Plus plugin.
• Compatible with Customize Snapshots, allowing changes made in the Customizer to be applied to requests for widgets via the REST API.
• Compatible with Customize Setting Validation.
• Includes (eventually) re-implementation of all core widgets using the new WP_JS_Widget API.

Limitations/Caveats:

• Widgets that extend WP_JS_Widget will not be editable from widgets admin page. A link to edit the widget in the Customizer will be displayed instead.
• Only widgets that extend WP_JS_Widget will be exposed via the REST API. The plugin includes a WP_JS_Widget proxy class which demonstrates how to adapt existing WP_Widget classes for the new widget functionality.

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