[theme-reviewers] How to Leverage the Theme Customizer in Your Own Themes

[Chip Bennett]

I would love to establish best-practice here. But, given that two lead
developers (Otto and Nacin) disagree on "best practice" in this case, I'd
rather take a wait-and-see approach before we introduce anything along
these lines formally into the Guidelines.

I *would*, however, strongly recommend all developers follow the
discussion, and try to understand the two philosophies. Such understanding
*will* lead to better practices in general, with respect to Theme options
and the database.

Thanks,

Chip

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Konstantin Obenland
<konstantin at obenland.it>wrote:

> Talking about Themes and the Themes customizer:
> When it comes to adjust guidelines for 3.4, we should keep this quote from
> Otto in mind:
>
> *"BTW, mere activation of a theme should never change the database. This
> becomes even more important in 3.4 with the theme customizer, because a
> theme that is not active, but being customized will have it’s functions.php
> be loaded and all the theme will seem to think that it is active even
> though it is not."*
> http://kovshenin.com/2012/never-set-defaults-in-the-database/#comment-9332
>
> Enjoy your weekend! :)
> Konstantin
>
> On 05.05.2012, at 07:46, Merci Javier wrote:
>
>
> Thank you Chip. I'm going to play with it this weekend :-)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Amy <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this - I've been looking for something like it!
>>
>>
>> On May 4, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>> Good evening, all!
>>
>> Great tutorial this evening from Otto:
>>
>> http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Chip
>>
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