The term snapshots was chosen because the Customizer feature revolved around saving the state of the Customizer at time so that the changes could be saved as draft and scheduled for future publishing..
While the plugin's infrastructure for changesets was merged WordPress 4.7, the interface still remains in Customize Snapshots plugin, in.
The Customize link in the likewise gets submenu item to link to the changesets post list..
Add link Customizer to view the snapshot applied to the frontend, adding the customize snapshot uuid query param to the URL being previewed and optioning new window..
In this mode, the bar shows links for returning to the Customizer, for inspecting the in the admin, and for existing the snapshot preview.
If user happened to navigate to URL without UUID param, then the bar will prompt for restoring the snapshot session..
Requests to WP REST API, Admin Ajax, and custom endpoints should all have the Customizer state reflected in the responses..
When in the Customizer preview, forms with GET method get intercepted and the data gets serialized and added to the action and then navigated to like normal link.
Snapshot UUID is added to Customizer URL when snapshot is first saved and it's stripped from the URL once the settings are published, at.
Support listing snapshots in the admin and inspecting their contents WP Admin UI, with shortcuts to open snapshot Customizer, viewing the list of settings contained in snapshot from the in post list view ..
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