The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for the Customizer is being formed, and here’s a sneak peak. Features being considered are basic content authorship in the Customizer and Customizer Transactions, which would allow revisions to changes in the Customizer, among other perks.
I’d love to see a “new page” ability in the menu customizer, because that’s a common new site activity that requires a lot of URL juggling right now.
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Anders Norén has an update about the progress of Twenty Twenty: the Customizer can “automatically adapt all colors in the theme to maintain a high color contrast.” 👓 Anders reminds us that they “need all the help [they] can get with testing the theme in different browsers, on different devices, and in different languages.”
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If you want to understand how to bridge the gap between the REST API and the Customizer, Weston Ruter has you covered. With an incredibly detailed blog post and a sample plugin, you can get started taking advantage of manipulating data using the API, through the Customizer interface. This shows a lot of what is…
Notes from a recent meeting of the Theme Review Team reflect a discussion of what methods for upselling are currently allowed in the theme repo. A majority involved in the discussion so far are in favor of enacting some restrictions, which include: No global nags at top of admin pages. +12 One top-level link in the…
I found this plugin today, when I had a situation come up where I needed to convert customizer settings from a parent theme to a newly installed child theme. This isn’t my first go at this. In fact, I think WordPress should auto-inherit customizer settings for child themes, so I created a ticket for it…
