<div dir="ltr">I don&#39;t know, but it&#39;s a good question (and one I&#39;ve wondered, myself). You might want to search core Trac, to see if there are any related tickets. If not, maybe open a new ticket to request the enhancement?<div>
<br></div><div style>(IMHO it would be far superior for core to add the link, rather than have Themes do it ad-hoc - perhaps it could be done via e.g. add_theme_support( &#39;customizer&#39; ) that would trigger the menu entry?)</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Paul Appleyard <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:paul@spacecat.com" target="_blank">paul@spacecat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is the &#39;Customize&#39; button going to be brought out in to the harsh light of the main dashboard (ar at least the Appearances menu) in core any time soon? (As opposed surfacing it within a theme)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>

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Paul Appleyard</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 4/03/2013 5:33 AM, Otto wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Chip Bennett &lt;<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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Otto wrote the definitive tutorial:<br>
<a href="http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/" target="_blank">http://ottopress.com/2012/how-<u></u>to-leverage-the-theme-<u></u>customizer-in-your-own-themes/</a><br>
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And if you don&#39;t want an options page at all, and want to exclusively<br>
use the customizer, don&#39;t forget the next part of that tutorial:<br>
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<a href="http://ottopress.com/2012/theme-customizer-part-deux-getting-rid-of-options-pages/" target="_blank">http://ottopress.com/2012/<u></u>theme-customizer-part-deux-<u></u>getting-rid-of-options-pages/</a><br>
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-Otto<br>
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