[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20858: Themes should have to support the new customizer or be able to disable it

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#20858: Themes should have to support the new customizer or be able to disable it
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 Reporter:  martythornley  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes         |    Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
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 The new customizer tools lok and work great for themes that want to suppor
 it.

 But many themes will have their own options already and may not want to.
 There are also endless numbers of existing themes that will not support it
 because they were built before 3.4

 While including the "Customize" link and allowing the customizer to open
 does not break anything, there are a few reasons why themes need to be
 able to disable it altogether. It can be confusing for users to click a
 "Customize" link and have a page pop up with no actual customization
 options.

 The options to choose what the front page displays are still there, as are
 the site title and description. These are settings for the site as a whole
 and not the theme and could create a few more points of confusion.

 While the typical theme is made to be flexible and allow the front page to
 use the "latest posts" or a "static page" there are also themes,
 especially on custom sites that do not use that setting.

 Many themes will not make use of the site title or description at all and
 use a logo of some kind. While that option still needs to be there
 somewhere, it should not be as prominent as it is here (for themes that do
 not want to support it).

 I can think of two solutions, either make themes declare support for the
 customizer, OR allow a simple "WP_DISALLOW_CUSTOMIZER" constant.

 Then we could do something like:

 if( current_theme_supports('customizer') )
         wp_enqueue_script( 'customize-loader' );

 OR

 if( ! defined ( 'WP_DISALLOW_CUSTOMIZER' ) )
         wp_enqueue_script( 'customize-loader' );

 There may be more to it than this but I think theme authors need to be
 able to either opt-in or opt-out of a feature like this.

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