Transform The WordPress Customizer Into A Page Builder
Using the Customizer Widgets plugin from Organic Themes.

The folks at Organic Themes believe most WordPress page builders are fundamentally flawed. A page builder extends the functionality of WordPress. It allows a user to display and arrange a variety of content types on any page of their website. However, most page builders are highly reliant on shortcodes, custom foreign interfaces and bulky proprietary code that heavily impacts the performance of a website. They often require an extensive learning curve beyond that of basic WordPress usage. Additionally, they are a massive departure from WordPress core and the evolution of the platform. Instead, page builders should be utilizing the Customizer and core features of WordPress.
The Organic Customizer Widgets plugin solves these problems. It provides a collection of custom widgets that can be used on any page within the WordPress Customizer as content sections. Best of all, it’s FREE, and designed to work with ANY theme! The result is a fast, easy and free WordPress page builder!
The Customizer provides users with an intuitive interface for making visual changes to their WordPress website in real-time. The creators of WordPress are placing a huge emphasis on the Customizer. It’s the future of designing WordPress websites.
We created the Organic Customizer Widgets plugin to evolve with WordPress and the Customizer. It uses a custom page template that registers new widget areas, and custom widgets that can be added as unique content sections on any page. Additionally, it’s available in the official WordPress plugin directory, so you can install it directly from your WordPress dashboard and receive automatic updates.

After installing and activating the plugin, you will be provided with a collection of custom widgets. The widgets can be used to display various content sections. Currently, the following widgets are included with the plugin:
- Hero — A full browser height section with featured text, background images and a call to action.
- Blog — A section of blog posts from any category in a chosen layout.
- Content Slideshow — A full width slideshow of featured posts with background images.
- Feature List — A list of features with icons displayed in multiple column layouts.
- Portfolio — A section of posts displayed as portfolio images in a masonry layout.
- Subpage — A section of content from an existing page.
- Team — A section of team members from a selected post category.
- Testimonials — A slideshow of testimonials from a selected category or custom post type.
- Profile — A personal profile with an image, bio and social media links.
- Pricing Table — A section of pricing tables with a featured list and purchase link.
- Featured Content — Custom content that can be grouped together with other featured content widgets.
Widgets are a core functionality of WordPress. Selecting, moving and manipulating widgets in the WordPress customizer is simple, fast and intuitive. Users can see exactly what their website will look like as changes display in real-time. The Organic Customizer Widgets allow for the creation of highly dynamic website pages with ultimate ease!
While some WordPress page builders offer a huge degree of control over the design, we feel that is more often a hindrance rather than a benefit. Endless design options and control can be overwhelming — leaving users paralyzed. As a result, we designed each widget to be pixel perfect with simple customization options. So custom pages can be created faster without the endless guesswork.
To showcase the power of our new plugin, we have released the StartUp Theme! It’s designed to work flawlessly with the WordPress Customizer and Organic Customizer Widgets plugin.

In addition to the StartUp Theme, the plugin is compatible with virtually ANY theme in the WordPress directory. Of course, it would make us happy if you used an Organic Theme, but it’s not a requirement.
For further instructions on plugin usage, please refer to our tutorial. More information about the plugin can be found at Organic Themes.
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