[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38077: Facilitating embedding customizer controls outside of sections

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#38077: Facilitating embedding customizer controls outside of sections
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 Reporter:  westonruter  |       Owner:  westonruter
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Customize    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by westonruter):

 * milestone:  Future Release => 4.8


Old description:

> Controls are currently assumed to be always contained within sections in
> the customizer. This makes it difficult to reuse the controls in other
> contexts, such as embedding multiple controls inside another control or
> embedding a control outside the context of the customizer entirely.
>
> Some of the hacks required to get controls to appear outside of the
> customizer can be seen in https://github.com/xwp/standalone-customizer-
> controls
>
> The Media control in particular needs to be updated to remove the logic
> resize the player controls when the section is expanded. The `embed`
> method (used by widgets) also needs to not wait generally for a contained
> section to expand.
>
> Key dependency for #29071 (Make it easier to include an instance of the
> Customizer outside of customize.php)
>
> Depends on or is closely related to #37964 (Allow customizer controls to
> be encapsulated by accepting pre-instantiated settings)

New description:

 Controls are currently assumed to be always contained within sections in
 the customizer. This makes it difficult to reuse the controls in other
 contexts, such as embedding multiple controls inside another control or
 embedding a control outside the context of the customizer entirely. This
 will facilitate embedding customize controls on the frontend for
 contextual editing without having to have the customizer sidebar open or
 even having to go into `customize.php` at all.

 Some of the hacks required to get controls to appear outside of the
 customizer can be seen in https://github.com/xwp/standalone-customizer-
 controls

 The Media control in particular needs to be updated to remove the logic
 resize the player controls when the section is expanded. The `embed`
 method (used by widgets) also needs to not wait generally for a contained
 section to expand.

 Key dependency for #29071 (Make it easier to include an instance of the
 Customizer outside of customize.php)

 Depends on or is closely related to #37964 (Allow customizer controls to
 be encapsulated by accepting pre-instantiated settings)

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