[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22880: Customize Themes without activation

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#22880: Customize Themes without activation
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 Reporter:  kkkrys       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Customize    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by westonruter):

 Replying to [comment:5 celloexpressions]:
 > I believe (@westonruter, correct me if I'm wrong) that Customizer
 transactions (#30937), combined with theme-switching, would enable theme
 customizations to be saved without activating that theme, without any UI.
 If that happened, we could consider reset UI.

 Correct. When loading the Customizer you could also select from
 transaction drafts to restore the settings from a previous un-saved
 Customizer state.

 By the way, I think that the way that theme switch is handled in the
 Customizer should be changed. Right now the `theme` gets passed in as a
 query parameter in an out-of-band way in relation to the other options
 being Customized (e.g. `blogname`). There should be a `theme` setting that
 is registered which, when saved, causes the `switch_theme` logic to
 happen. This is something I'm considering as an improvement along with
 transactions, since it would then allow you to create a transaction in
 which the theme is switched, and schedule the transaction for some future
 date, allowing the theme switch to be scheduled when the transaction is
 “committed”. The `theme` setting should be registered with the
 `switch_themes` capability.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22880#comment:6>
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