[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:  Appearance            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch ui-focus  |
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 Replying to [comment:3 helen]:
 > What's the experience when a user customizes an inactive theme, saves
 those customizations but doesn't activate the theme, and then goes back to
 customize it later? Do we then need a reset button? Is it less useful
 because there's no selective or step-by-step undo?
 We don't have the ability to reset or selectively undo changes for active
 themes either, so I don't think we need to worry about that here. That
 really sounds like something that customizer revisions would handle (like
 .com's snapshots I believe), which would be super cool but are a separate
 (and much bigger) issue. For now, having the ability to save changes
 without activating is more important than adding the ability to reset all
 options or undo revisions, since you could almost call the current
 behavior a bug.

 In terms of the storage mechanism; I'm guessing it's pretty much already
 in place, we just need to skip the theme switching part (or if that
 happens first, switch back). This could also allow users who can't
 `switch_themes` but can `edit_theme_options` to make customizations to
 inactive themes. I think we'd probably retain the existing button as the
 primary, and add a new secondary one for this.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22880#comment:4>
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