Is The WordPress Admin Appearance/Editor Relevant Any More?

The editor provides the ability to edit theme files in addition to stylesheets.

CTC was created to provide a way to generate styles that matched the parent theme selectors exactly so that the child theme overrides would take priority over the parent.

Prior to the new new custom css option, every theme used its own theme-specific “mod” option for this purpose. Moving this to the core normalizes this interface across all themes. By using the post table instead of the option table, it further separates it from the theme-specific options, so that the styles will persist even if the theme is changed. The downside is that these custom styles are rendered inline.

CTC is more useful for customizing specific themes. The changes are physically written to the theme stylesheet, not the database, and as a result are “enqueued” with the stylesheets instead of being rendered inline. Depending on your philosophy toward this matter you may or may not find this to be preferable to using the Customizer’s inline editor.

Whether or not you use the Customizer or CTC’s editors for CSS, the theme editor provides a means to edit the functions and templates directly from the WordPress admin.

lilaeamedia,

Thank you for that explanation.