Practical WordPress Development
Since the release of the WordPress Theme Customizer, my team and I have been more and more interested in using it as a way for users to make changes to the appearance of their theme without the use of the dashboard. As powerful as the dashboard is, the “Appearance” section creates a disconnect between what …
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I’m currently working on a lengthy set of articles that are intended to provide an in-depth look at the WordPress Theme Customizer. Yes, there has been a lot of material already written on this subject. Some of the best articles are: Otto’s guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer The comprehensive Codex article on the Theme Customization …
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When it comes to working with the WordPress Theme Customizer, one of the options that you’re likely to see in other themes (or that you’re likely to introduce in your own themes) is an option that is responsible for toggling the visibility of an element. For example, if a text box is empty, you may …
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With the recent change to WordPress.org requiring themes to use the WordPress Theme Customizer in their work, WordPress designers and developers have been talking about it and discussing it for several weeks now. And rightly so: Many of us are fans of the customizer, many are not, some fall in between, and some wish that …
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I’ve written a little bit about the WordPress Theme Customizer in a number of previous posts primarily because I think it’s one of the best features that has been introduced into WordPress in a long time (of course, this isn’t meant to downplay any of the work that’s been done since ;). To be clear, I’m …
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