Theme Customizer Default Sections

I kept having to hunt through wp-includes/class-wp-customize-manager.php to see what the default sections in the theme customizer were registered as.

To save you the trouble, here they are:

title_tagline

$this->add_section( 'title_tagline', array(
     'title'    => __( 'Site Title & Tagline' ),
     'priority' => 20,
) );

colors

$this->add_section( 'colors', array(
     'title'          => __( 'Colors' ),
     'priority'       => 40,
) );

header_image

$this->add_section( 'header_image', array(
     'title'          => __( 'Header Image' ),
     'theme_supports' => 'custom-header',
     'priority'       => 60,
) );

background_image

$this->add_section( 'background_image', array(
     'title'          => __( 'Background Image' ),
     'theme_supports' => 'custom-background',
     'priority'       => 80,
) );

nav

$this->add_section( 'nav', array(
     'title'          => __( 'Navigation' ),
     'theme_supports' => 'menus',
     'priority'       => 100,
     'description'    => sprintf( _n('Your theme supports %s menu. Select which menu you would like to use.', 'Your theme supports %s menus. Select which menu appears in each location.', $num_locations ), number_format_i18n( $num_locations ) ) . "\n\n" . __('You can edit your menu content on the Menus screen in the Appearance section.'),
) );

static_front_page

$this->add_section( 'static_front_page', array(
     'title'          => __( 'Static Front Page' ),
      // 'theme_supports' => 'static-front-page',
      'priority'       => 120,
      'description'    => __( 'Your theme supports a static front page.' ),
) );

If you’re not sure how to add options to these default sections, give Otto’s post a read.

7 thoughts on “Theme Customizer Default Sections”

Kattagami - Gilles Vauvarin wrote:

June 26, 2012 at 12:19 am

Thanks Devin for these snippets, very useful.

To removing one of these options (ie: Title & Tagline) from the customize back-end, just put …

$wp_customize->remove_section( 'title_tagline');

… in your functions.php file.

I will try to use WP Customize and Theme options ;-)

Dario Novoa wrote:

August 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm

@Kattagami

Thanks you so much!!!! for the remove_section.

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sin wrote:

June 26, 2012 at 10:55 pm

Thanks, this is a time saver! Btw, made any progress with Options Framework theme and customizer?

Regards,
Sinisa

Devin wrote:

August 14, 2012 at 10:49 am

Yes, here’s the post:
http://wptheming.com/2012/07/options-framework-theme-customizer/

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Slobodan Manic wrote:

February 2, 2013 at 12:49 am

A very useful list, thanks for posting it Devin.

I wanted to rename Header Image section to Logo, surprisingly just re-adding it from functions.php, with a different name, worked fine:

// Renaming "Header Image" section to "Logo" $wp_customize->add_section( 'header_image', array( 'title' => __( 'Logo' ), 'theme_supports' => 'custom-header', 'priority' => 60, ) );

Still not sure if there are any downsides to doing it like this, but no errors or notices.

Native Imaging wrote:

April 18, 2013 at 10:24 am

I notice to options that I haven’t seen before, but they don’t seem to work or i don’t understand how they work>

'theme_supports' =>

'description' => sprintf( _n('Your theme supports %s menu. Select which menu you would like to use.', 'Your theme supports %s menus. Select which menu appears in each location.', $num_locations ), number_format_i18n( $num_locations ) ) . "\n\n" . __('You can edit your menu content on the Menus screen in the Appearance section.'),

I’m a bit confused about what ‘theme_supports’ does, and the ‘description’ option doesn’t seem to do anything.. Do I need to ‘extend’ the control to get the description to work?

Thanks for this post. Once I have my theme customizer finished, I will post the code on Github.

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