[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25094: Twenty Fourteen: Audit Theme Customization Options

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#25094: Twenty Fourteen: Audit Theme Customization Options
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal            |   Keywords:
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 Right now there are too many options that don't do enough to customize
 Twenty Fourteen. Let's fix that.

 Specifically, here are some candidates for removing:
 - I see no reason to have the ability to hide the header text
 - If the header text color is customizable, that color control should
 change all of the white text in the navbar, sidebar, and footer (ie, it
 shouldn't be a header text control)
 - So, do we really want the custom header feature at all? Having the
 header itself requires us to use {{{$( window ).on('scroll' ...}}} JS,
 which is laggy and one of the reasons we removed the fixed navbar in
 Twenty Thirteen
 - Do we really need a custom background feature? This is more necessary
 since we're not doing #25013 (one of the reasons I wanted to do that). For
 the sake of simplicity, would a custom background color, but not image, be
 sufficient, since the background is only in the right margin?
 - The "Theme Options" section should be renamed to something like "social
 links". But is it a theme's position to specify these? Even when switching
 to a child theme, they need to be re-entered. This seems like plugin or
 ''maybe'' core territory.

 Additionally, here are some things that would be useful if added:
 - The green and lighter green colors should be customizable with a color
 picker (call them "accent" colors?)
 - It would be nice if the black header/right sidebar/footer background
 color could be changed. There would be a lot of flexibility there if the
 text color could also be changed, but still a fair amount without that.

 I'll hold off on patching anything until this is discussed.

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