The build up to WordPress 4.3 launch day was dominated by talk about the WordPress Customizer, with a lot of uncertainty and disagreement over the direction the Customizer was headed. It’s fair to say that most regular WordPress users aren’t huge fans of the Customizer, but the core team sees it as an integral part of the WordPress growth plan. On Wednesday, Weston Ruter published an insightful post over on the Make WordPress Core blog, giving us the clearest clues yet of what’s in store for the Customizer – with details of the two-year goals for the Customizer and the […]
Proposed Improvements to the Customizer for WordPress 4.3
Development for WordPress 4.3 is well under way, with the core team already working hard to hit the proposed release date—tentatively penciled in for 18 August 2015. As the weeks and months progress, we’ll get a better idea of what’s in store for the WordPress core in 4.3. We’ve already discussed better passwords, but today I want to focus on changes to the WordPress Customizer. WordPress 4.2 introduced some small improvements to the Customizer by allowing you to quickly and easily switch between your installed themes. The improvements to the Customizer won’t stop there, however, and the next few versions […]
Using the WordPress Customizer for Saving User-Specific Options
The WordPress Customizer — which started out as the theme customizer — is currently one of the best options to allow end-users to customize a theme or plugin. The Customizer is rapidly expanding in its feature set, with the new panels in WordPress 4.0 and the work on a complete JavaScript API for the Customizer giving it a better overall UX and making it more useful. Just as the Customizer doesn’t have to be limited to admin use only, it turns out that it doesn’t have to be limited in the use of setting options either. By default, the Customizer stores in […]
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