Tutsplus – The WordPress Theme Customizer

Tutsplus – The WordPress Theme Customizer
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The WordPress Theme Customizer, introduced in WordPress 3.4, is a feature that allows users to customize their themes and see a live preview of the changes without having to toggle back and forth from the dashboard to the public-facing side of the site. In this series, we’ll learn this API, and review a practical example of how to develop themes that incorporate a variety of controls as offered by the API.

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The WordPress Theme Customizer
March 17, 2014
Tom McFarlin
Web Development | WordPress

The WordPress Theme Customizer, introduced in WordPress 3.4, is a feature that allows users to customize their themes and see a live preview of the changes without having to toggle back and forth from the dashboard to the public-facing side of the site. In this series, we’ll learn this API, and review a practical example of how to develop themes that incorporate a variety of controls as offered by the API.

What is the WordPress Theme Customizer? [3m 28s]
Why Does It Benefit Us? [7m 16s]
Understanding Sections, Settings, and Controls [5m 58s]
Setting Up Apache, MySQL, and PHP [10m 50s]
Preparing Our IDE [6m 22s]
Starting Theme Development [7m 18s]
Implementing Our First Setting [13m 38s]
A Methodology For Sections, Settings, and Controls [5m 24s]
Our Next Settings [13m 8s]
Advanced Controls – The Color Picker [5m]
Advanced Controls – Customize Image, Customize Upload [10m 32s]
Advanced Controls – A Survey of the Theme Customizer 6m 10s