WP Designer — Professional WordPress Design & Customization Tool

The ultimate WP Designer toolkit for professional WordPress customization!

WP Designer is the go-to plugin for WordPress designers who need reliable, theme-independent customization tools. Whether you’re a freelance WP designer or run a WordPress design agency, this plugin ensures your custom work stays safe and organized.

Why WP Designers Choose This Plugin

✅ Never lose design work — Code stays safe during theme updates ✅ Professional SCSS workflow — Write modern CSS with variables, mixins & nesting ✅ Designer-friendly organization — Clean file structure for all your custom code ✅ Client-safe customizations — Debug tools to toggle designs on/off instantly ✅ Performance optimized — Auto-minified CSS for production sites (compressed version for visitors) ✅ Theme-independent functions.php — Custom PHP functions work with any theme

Perfect For WordPress Designers

Freelance WP Designers: Build client sites with confidence knowing your custom designs persist across theme changes.

WordPress Design Agencies: Standardize your design workflow with organized, maintainable code structure.

Professional Designers: Speed up WordPress design projects with SCSS workflow and debugging tools.

WP Designer File Organization

Upon activation, creates professional structure in /wp-content/uploads/wp-designer/: — functions.php — Your custom WordPress design functions — style.scss — Professional SCSS styles (auto-compiles to CSS) — images/ & scripts/ — Designer asset folders — Automatic CSS minification for production sites

SCSS for WordPress Designers

Write professional, maintainable styles with modern SCSS features: — Variables for consistent design systems — Mixins for reusable design components — Nesting for organized WordPress stylesheets — Automatic compilation with file modification time checking — Development (expanded) & production (compressed) CSS versions — Cache-busting during development with microtime versioning

Example WP Designer SCSS: `scss $brand-color: #007cba; $mobile: 768px;

.wp-designer-header { background: $brand-color;

@media (max-width: $mobile) { padding: 1rem; }

&__title { font-size: 2rem; } } `

Also read

These articles explain the philosophy behind WP Designer’s approach: — Why Custom Post Types Belong in Plugins — Justin Tadlock explains why functionality should be theme-independent — Creating a Custom Functions Plugin for End Users — Best practices for WordPress customization

WP Designer allows you to:

1. Add extra functionality to any theme without hassles
2. Extend the capabilities of existing themes
3. Keep your customizations (php code snippets and css styles) outside the theme
4. Theme independence allows extending WordPress without massive theme updates
5. Speed up your development time using SCSS