A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer

The goal of this series of articles is to take someone who knows nothing about the Theme Customizer, and provide enough information that you’ll not only know what the Theme Customizer is, but how it works, and how to implement your our settings into existing sections, and to introduce your own sections with their own group of settings.

Posts in this series

A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: What It Is, Why It Benefits Us
About a year ago, we did a short series of articles on WordPress' Theme Customizer. Now that the Theme Customizer has been available in WordPress for quite...
Tom McFarlin
24 Sep 2013
Theme Development
A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Getting Started
In this series, we're taking a complete look at the WordPress Theme Customizer. Specifically, we're understanding exactly what it is as well as why it...
Tom McFarlin
26 Sep 2013
Theme Development
A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Sections, Settings, and Controls
In the last article, we created a very basic theme that included the Theme Customizer so that we could see how it looks within the context of the WordPress...
Tom McFarlin
1 Oct 2013
Theme Development
A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Adding a New Setting
By now, we've taken a look at what the Theme Customizer is, how it works, and the components that are unique to it. We've even discussed how options are...
Tom McFarlin
8 Oct 2013
Theme Development
WordPress Theme Customizer: Methodology for Sections, Settings, and Controls - Part 1
At this point in the series, we've covered everything from understanding why the Theme Customizer is beneficial to those of us who are designers and...
Tom McFarlin
22 Oct 2013
Theme Development
WordPress Theme Customizer: Methodology for Sections, Settings, and Controls – Part 2
In the last article, we defined a simple methodology for everything that's required to establish a new Section, Settings, and Controls within the Theme...
Tom McFarlin
28 Oct 2013
Theme Development
A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Advanced Controls
Throughout this series, we've been taking a look at the Theme Customizer, how to implement it in our themes, how to save, serialization, retrieve settings,...
Tom McFarlin
5 Nov 2013
Theme Development
A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Review and Resources
In this series, we've taken a look at the WordPress Theme Customizer and built a small theme demonstrating how to implement it in our current and future...
Tom McFarlin
8 Nov 2013
Theme Development