Monster Widget

Description

The Monster widget consolidates all 13 core widgets into a single widget enabling theme developers to create multiple instances with ease. It has been created to save time during theme development and review by minimizing the steps needed to populate a sidebar with widgets. The Monster widget is not designed for use in production.

Screenshots

Installation

This plugin can be installed directly from your site.

1. Log in and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
2. Type “Monster Widget” into the Search input and click the “Search Widgets” button.
3. Locate the Monster Widget in the list of search results and click “Install Now”.
4. Click the “Activate Plugin” link at the bottom of the install screen.
5. Navigate to Appearance → Widgets and create a new instance.

It can also be installed manually.

1. Download the plugin from www.ads-software.com.
2. Unzip the package and move to your plugins directory.
3. Log into WordPress and navigate to the “Plugins” screen.
4. Locate “Monster Widget” in the list and click the “Activate” link.
5. Navigate to Appearance → Widgets and create a new instance.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

This plugin can be installed directly from your site.

1. Log in and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
2. Type “Monster Widget” into the Search input and click the “Search Widgets” button.
3. Locate the Monster Widget in the list of search results and click “Install Now”.
4. Click the “Activate Plugin” link at the bottom of the install screen.
5. Navigate to Appearance → Widgets and create a new instance.

It can also be installed manually.

1. Download the plugin from www.ads-software.com.
2. Unzip the package and move to your plugins directory.
3. Log into WordPress and navigate to the “Plugins” screen.
4. Locate “Monster Widget” in the list and click the “Activate” link.
5. Navigate to Appearance → Widgets and create a new instance.

Why I do not see the Menu widget?

The core Menu widget provides an interface that enables you to select a custom menu to display. The Monster widget will attempt to locate the custom menu having the most links on your site. In the event that no menus are registered, a menu widget will not be displayed. Likewise, if all of your custom menus are empty (no links added to them), no menu widget will be displayed.= Why was the pipe test removed in version 0.3 =

A couple members of the Theme Team at Automattic had a discussion about the relevance of this test and we came to the conclusion that it is rather unnatural. Moving forward it would be best to only include markup and data that best represent actual use cases.

Reviews

Useful

mythemes June 20, 2017

Good job and it is very useful for me

First plugin i install on builds

peterorpete September 3, 2016

Super useful, has most of the development plugins you will need

Works Great

Brandon Hubbard September 3, 2016

This is a great tool for theme testing.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

v0.3 – January 5th, 2013

• Added test photograph by directly to the plugin. Thanks to Rarst for the bug report.
• Add a really long select element to the text widget. See _s issue #99.
• Add a smiley to the image caption.
• Remove the “pipe test”.
• Bump version number.
• Update Changelog.

v0.2 – October 18th, 2012

• Create custom cache key for the Recent Posts widget.
• Only add the Links widget when it has been registered.
• Bump version number.
• Update Changelog.

v0.1 – May 12th, 2012

• Original Release.