[theme-reviewers] Need Help

[Chip Bennett]

> And until declaring support for it does something
more than just adding a menu, I doubt it's meaningful enough to need a
theme_support option that would have to be supported by core for the
foreseeable future.

This is the main part I disagree with. There is inherent value in exposing
the Customizer to the user with the same efficiency as the Theme Options
page.

Theme Options: Dashboard -> Appearance -> Theme Options
Customizer: Dashboard -> Themes (if you know to look there) -> (load page)
-> Customize

If Themes are going to add one line of code, isn't it far superior to add a
never-needs-to-be-changed add_theme_support() call, than to add a different
bit of code, that could potentially change in the future?


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> > So what about an add_theme_support() option, for Themes that opt to
> > integrate options into the customizer?
>
> What would declaring theme support for the customizer even do? If it's
> just adding the menu option, heck, themes can do that themselves with
> a single line of code.
>
> There's no point in having yet-another theme_support system until it
> does something that can be considered a) relatively stable, b)
> meaningful, and c) likely to expand in scope in the future. The
> customizer is likely to expand, but I wouldn't call it "stable" yet,
> since even the controls changed somewhat in 3.5 and will probably
> change more in 3.6. And until declaring support for it does something
> more than just adding a menu, I doubt it's meaningful enough to need a
> theme_support option that would have to be supported by core for the
> foreseeable future.
>
> Maybe eventually. But again, it's not there yet.
>
> -Otto
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