21 Responses

1. Kattagami - Gilles Vauvarin

   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 ;-)

   1. Dario Novoa

      @Kattagami

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

2. sin

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

   Regards,
   Sinisa

   1. Devin

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

3. Remove a section from WordPress Theme Customizer | Dario Novoa

   […] And after some digging came across the correct code to do so in a comment at: https://wptheming.com/2012/06/add-options-to-theme-customizer-default-sections/ […]

4. Slobodan Manic

   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.

5. Native Imaging

   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.

6. Daniel

   This is nice, but how do I disable the entire customization thing completely from WordPress? Everyone shows how to set up your theme for customization, but no one how to disable the feature. If you know, please help! Thanks.

   1. Devin

      http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/58932/how-do-i-remove-a-pre-exising-customizer-setting

      1. Daniel

         Yeah… Thanks, but this is still not answering my question. I want to disable customization completely, not just for a section or two.

7. How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults : Post Status

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8. Peter

   Hi,
   Hmm… how add default section from WordPress Theme Customizer for editors? Ex. static_front_page – Static Front Page…

   Regards,
   Peter

   1. Devin

      The static_front_page section?

9. Roberto

   Is it possible to put together ‘title_tagline’ and ‘static_front_page’ settings in the same menu?

10. Bub City

    Thanks Devin,

    I also got tired of hunting for the defaults, so I searched Google and found this post and bookmarked it.

11. Anh Tran

    Anyone has a solution for moving default WordPress control into theme’s section? I want to move the header image into “Header” section of the theme options. I tried remove and re-add the control, but it does not work.

    1. livarion

       try this adding this code to your customizer:
       $wp_customize->get_section(‘section name’)->panel =’panel name’;

       1. Anh Tran

          Thanks for your comment. Actually I’m looking for a way to move a control to another section, not section to another panel

    2. livarion

       To change default section of header image try to add following code to your customizer function:

       $wp_customize->get_control( ‘header_image’)->section =’section name’;

       It worked for me (section name “Images” in my case) -> http://imgur.com/YjkWAjg

       1. Anh Tran

          Awesome. This works perfectly. Thanks a lot!

       2. Joaquin

          This is very useful! I found out that you can also rename the section and change its description with this method.

          $wp_customize->get_section( ‘header_image’ )->title = __( ‘New Title’, ‘themename’ );

          $wp_customize->get_section( ‘header_image’ )->description = __( ‘New Description’, ‘themename’ );