[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26899: Theme Activation Workflow with Customizer

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#26899: Theme Activation Workflow with Customizer
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 Reporter:  chipbennett  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes       |    Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 When activating a Theme, the user should be redirected to the Theme
 Customizer.

 Facilitate users to configure Theme settings immediately upon Theme
 activation. Currently, the user is presented with the Themes UI upon
 activation. The most-obvious user action at this point is "Customize". (To
 reach the Theme settings page through the Themes UI now, the user must
 click "Theme Details", and then click the appropriate link/button.)

 Short-circuiting this workflow would provide several advantages:

 1) Immediate Theme configuration, with fewer steps
 2) Further encouragement/facilitation for Theme developers to hook into
 the Customizer API
 3) No need to know where to find the "Theme Options" link/button from the
 Themes UI
 4) No need to know either the standard Theme settings page location
 (Appearance -> Subpage), or a non-standard menu page added by the Theme


 An alternate proposal: Merge the "Activate" and "Live Preview" buttons for
 non-active Themes.

 Currently, for non-active Themes, two buttons are presented, "Activate"
 and "Live Preview". Users may not know that "Live Preview" is actually
 ("Configure, Live Preview, and Activate"). With this change, the two
 buttons could be condensed to a single button, which leads to the Theme
 customizer - allowing for Theme settings configuration and live-preview
 before activation.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26899>
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