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The WordPress Theme Customizer: Adding a New Setting To An Existing Section

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 the user toggles (or selects, or inputs, etc), and what they see on the front end. The Theme Customizer mitigates that issue. The thing is, there are a few nuances that come with implementing it in your theme. Though I’m not trying to cover everything here, the point of this post is show how you can introduce a new setting into an existing section. The WordPress Theme Customizer: New Setting, Old Section For those of you who aren’t familiar, the WordPress Theme Customizer is an API that was released in WordPress 3.4. Several of the more recent themes that ship with WordPress include it: In short, it’s a way for you to make changes to the appearance of your theme on the fly. On top of that, it’s completely customizable such that whenever you introduce a new setting into your existing theme, you can add new sections, settings, and so on to the theme customizer. But that’s another post. Adding a New Setting To An Existing Section Here, I’m more concerned with documentation how to add a new setting to an existing section as well as sharing how I organize my files for working with the theme customizer. It’s not so much that I think my way is right anymore than someone else’s way, but I do prefer to keep my files as compartmentalized as possible so this should share that, and it should show how to introduce a new setting into an existing section. The File Structure As I mentioned, there are a number of ways that you implement the WordPress Theme Customizer, but there has been my preferred method for some time now: Create an `inc` directory in the root of the theme Create a `theme-customizer.php` file in the `inc` directory Call an `include_once` to the `theme-customizer.php` file in `functions.php` Create a `js` directory in the root of the theme Create a `theme-customizer.js` file in the `js` directory This should be clear enough. Though I use CodeKit to manage my JavaScript, CSS, images, and other assets, this should provide you with enough information for how I organize my theme files. Implementing The New Setting So anyway, once you’ve done all of that, it’s really easy to begin implementing the theme customizer. First, you need to register your JavaScript file with the `customize_preview_init` action: function my_customizer_live_preview() { wp_enqueue_script( ‘my-theme-customizer’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/theme-customizer.min.js’, array( ‘jquery’,’customize-preview’ ), MY_THEME_VERSION, true ); } add_action( ‘customize_preview_init’, ‘my_customizer_live_preview’ ); Then you need to define a function that will be added to the theme’s theme customizer by using the `customize_register` function. In this case, I’m looking to introduce a new option specifically for changing the link color and I am looking to add it to the existing Colors section in the theme customizer. function my_theme_register_theme_customizer( $wp_customize ) { $wp_customize->add_setting( ‘link_color’, array( ‘default’ => ‘#000000’, ‘transport’ => ‘postMessage’, ) ); $wp_customize->add_control( new WP_Customize_Color_Control( $wp_customize, ‘link_color’, array( ‘label’ => __( ‘Link Color’, ‘my_theme’ ), ‘section’ => ‘colors’, ‘settings’ => ‘link_color’ ) ) ); $wp_customize->get_setting( ‘link_color’ )->transport = ‘postMessage’; } add_action( ‘customize_register’, ‘my_theme_register_theme_customizer’ ); Above, the key is that the `add_setting` must come before the `add_control` call. At this point, this should introduce a new setting in your theme customizer, though it won’t actually be functional since there isn’t any JavaScript, yet. Can’t show […]

WordPress Options and Theme Modifications

When The Customizer (once called The Theme Customizer) became part of WordPress, we saw a resurgence in the Theme Modification API. At one point in WordPress history, the `get_theme_mod` and `set_theme_mod` was how we handled theme modifications (hence the function names). Then, we began to use the options table as a way to manage the […]

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