Please fix the theme customizer

  • Hi,

    The theme customizer in version 4.1 no longer loads the default values upon initial activation…it just completely ignores them. I have to tamper with each option and then restore it back to default to get it to save which absolutely ridiculous.

    Please fix this stupidity ASAP.

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter Pulsar_Media

    (@pulsar_media)

    I should also mention that the widgets are no longer available through the theme customizer.

    I am not sure why the customizer has been butchered in version 4.1 because it seemed to work great in version 4.0.

    Regards.

    Do you get these problems with no plugins active and a default theme active?

    Thread Starter Pulsar_Media

    (@pulsar_media)

    Hi WPyogi,

    I am testing several of my themes which i sell on themeforest and they are all experiencing the same issues i mentioned above. I am testing them on a clean install of WordPress 4.1 so the only plug-ins active are the default WordPress ones (akismet, etc) and Woocommerce 2.2.

    I tested a default theme but i cant really determine if the default settings are already saved or not…however with my themes i can tell that the customizer works completely worse in 4.1.

    I really haven’t seen any similar reports of this issue – except some that turned out to be due to an site, theme or plugin problem (i.e. not WP core). Have you tried debugging – does anything show up?

    And without Woocommerce and Akismet?

    Thread Starter Pulsar_Media

    (@pulsar_media)

    Actually the widgets are now appearing…it seems the widget area needs to be active on the page in order for them to appear now??…that seems a bit strange and confusing.

    Thread Starter Pulsar_Media

    (@pulsar_media)

    Hi WPyogi,

    Is there something i need to do in WordPress 4.1 to get the default theme customizer settings to load upon initial activation? Perhaps some new code that i need to include?

    I have a ton of options in my themes that no longer load up in WordPress 4.1…but they were in every previous version of WordPress.

    I was having a similar issue. For me it was solved by changing the get_theme_mod call, hardcoding the default value, like this:

    <?php $siteName = get_theme_mod( 'site_name', get_bloginfo( 'name' ) ); ?>

    or

    <?php $logoWidth = get_theme_mod( 'logo_width', 300 ); ?>

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