4WP Style Switcher

4WP Style Switcher

By 4wpdev
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4WP Style Switcher reads style variations from the active block theme (theme.json and /styles/*.json).

A plugin by 4wp.dev. 4WP is our project brand; the letters “WP” appear only as part of that brand name, not as a reference to WordPress. This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by WordPress.

Source code and releases: github.com/4wpdev/4wp-style-switcher

Development

Human-readable PHP source is in the public GitHub repository above. The plugin ZIP includes src/ (PSR-4 autoload via src/Autoload.php when vendor/ is absent). No npm build step — front-end scripts ship as plain JS in assets/.

Live demo (WordPress Playground): https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/4wpdev/4wp-style-switcher/v1.0.0/.wordpress-org/assets/blueprints/blueprint.json

The demo site Style Switcher uses Twenty Twenty-Five: About, Morning, Afternoon, and Evening pages with per-page styles, A/B light vs dark, a bottom-right visitor switcher, and Light/Dark in the header and footer menus.

Page style (editor) — pick a variation for a page; optionally lock it so visitors cannot override it.

Frontend switcher — visitors choose from allowed variations; the choice is stored in localStorage and synced to a cookie for server-side rendering.

Light / Dark (navigation block) — add the Light/Dark block inside Navigation; map two variations (sun/moon icons).

A/B testing — split new visitors between two variations; daily aggregate stats monitor the traffic split.

Privacy

When the visitor switcher or A/B testing is enabled, the plugin may store the selected style variation in a browser cookie (forwp_ss_style) and in localStorage on the visitor device. No personal data is sent to third-party services. A/B stats are aggregated counts stored in your WordPress database.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Light / Dark — menu toggle between two mapped theme style variations (sun/moon icons).Hooks (developers)

  • forwp_style_switcher_variations — filter theme variation list.

  • forwp_style_switcher_ab_assigned — after A/B cohort assignment.
  • forwp_style_switcher_analytics_track — analytics events.
  • forwp_style_switcher_ab_assignment_enabled — filter A/B assignment.

Details

Plugin code:
4wp-style-switcher
Plugin version:
1.0.1
Author:
Outdated:
No
WP version:
6.4 or higher
PHP version:
7.4 or higher
Test up to WP version:
7.0
Total installations:
0
Last updated:
2026-06-09
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block-theme
dark-mode
full-site-editing
style-variations
theme-json