Tag: Customizer

Customizer Browser History Plugin

I’m happy to share a newly published feature plugin that implements #28536: Customizer Browser History. From the readme: This plugin keeps the Customizer URL in the browser updated with current previewed URL as the url query param and current expanded panel/section/control as autofocus params. This allows for bookmarking and also the ability to reload and return go … Continue reading Customizer Browser History Plugin

Matt Mullenweg on the Customizer in WP Tavern Interview

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, was recently interviewed on WP Tavern. He had some important things to say about the Customizer at 1:05:00 into the interview (transcript below): https://wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/EPISODE-240-Interview-With-Matt-Mullenweg-2016.mp3 Jeff Chandler: At WordCamp US you said that Customization is the single biggest opportunity for improving the WordPress experience, and I wanted to know, could you … Continue reading Matt Mullenweg on the Customizer in WP Tavern Interview

Customize Posts v0.5 Released

We’re pleased to announce the v0.5 release of the Customize Posts plugin! Check out my rough release demo video: Key features in this release: Postmeta support A framework for registering postmeta types, adding controls, and previewing changes. Page template Changes to the page template can now be previewed, both in the Customizer and from the edit page admin screen. … Continue reading Customize Posts v0.5 Released

Bridging the Customizer and the WP REST API

Update 2017-01-03: This post and associated plugins have been updated for WordPress 4.7. There’s a lot of excitement in the WordPress community about the WP REST API. We’ll be sending a couple representatives to the Day of REST conference coming up at the end of January, and I’ve been long-overdue to do a deep-dive in to the REST … Continue reading Bridging the Customizer and the WP REST API

The Impact of the Customizer at WCPDX

A couple months ago at WordCamp Portland, I gave a talk on “The Impact of the Customizer”: The Customizer is WordPress’s framework for live previewing changes to a site. Live preview gives confidence to those who would otherwise lack it when making a change: it gives freedom to experiment and explore, without a negative “save … Continue reading The Impact of the Customizer at WCPDX

Implementing Selective Refresh in the Customizer

To make the Customizer a great user experience, themes and plugins should implement settings that use the postMessage transport as much as possible. By default, settings get registered with a refresh transport meaning that every change to that setting will trigger a refresh in the preview so that PHP can re-render the preview with the … Continue reading Implementing Selective Refresh in the Customizer

Musings on Customizer as Future Admin Interface

There has been a lot of (well-deserved) excitement over Automattic’s Calypso project which largely re-implements the WP admin on WordPress.com as a JavaScript-driven REST API-powered single page application. (Reminder: WordPress.com is a service of Automattic that is built on the WordPress project, which I’ll call “WordPress.org” to differentiate here.) It is great to see what … Continue reading Musings on Customizer as Future Admin Interface