Comments on: Theme Customizer Part Deux: Getting rid of Options pages

By: Native Imaging

Native Imaging — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:40:40 +0000

@Eduardo,
Thank You for this code snippet. I see how this adds the uploaded media library to custom image controllers, but for some reason, the only images that show are the background images previously uploaded. Is there something i’m missing to make sure that the previously uploaded images that display are from that specific custom image upload controller?

By: Native Imaging

Native Imaging — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:27:40 +0000

OK. Great Start. Can you please finish a litte more on the Step 3? It doesn’t really wrap things up enough to be able to implement properly into page elements. Also, not sure why, but when using custom id’s I get a php error on the site. I was hoping for a step 4 to mirror the controls on a custom admin panel as well as how the CSS is cued or generated. I am very interested in relying only on the existing WordPress API’s and js files. I’ve attempted to use Options Framework and OptionTree, but I’m extremely afraid to sell a theme that will have a conflict when updating. It seems that every source I can find online about creating custom wordpress admin panels are incomplete, and no offer little to no support…

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:31:11 +0000

Hi Otto,

I’m trying to get the Background Color control, which is in the Colors section by default, to have a priority 1 – as I’m adding color controls for a number of other areas in my theme. I have all the other controls in this section respecting a priority order – but the default background_color is stumping me. I used your add_theme_support in my functions file to set the default color, thank you. Is there something similar I can do in my functions file to set the priority on the color control for this setting?

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:45:51 +0000

@Cassie, @David

I had to extend WP_Customize_Image_Control class and add my own tab_uploaded() function to filter the attachments.

If you want to use a context for your uploaded images (e.g. you’re creating a favicon uploader and only need to return already uploaded favicons), seems that all you have to do is to define a ‘context’ when you create a control. If you do this, WP will create a _wp_attachment_context meta key with the value provided inside your add_control()

Here's my code: https://gist.github.com/eduardozulian/4739075

Hope that helps. : )

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:07:48 +0000

Totally write, plus I had read http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/ before. so 100% my bad.. Thanks a bunch!

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:57:14 +0000

I gave the valid control types in the previous tutorial, and I explained how to make your own custom controls in the tutorial that follows this one:

http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/
http://ottopress.com/2012/making-a-custom-control-for-the-theme-customizer/

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:42:28 +0000

Ok maybe not… trying anything other than text throws an error
Fatal error: Call to a member function check_capabilities() on a non-object
So we might wait and see if Otto give us a better response :p

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:26:30 +0000

To answer my own question, there’s 5 types.
text checkbox radio select dropdown-pages

Strangely enough there’s no textarea bummer.

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:05:59 +0000

Hi Otto, so after some re-search (though I have not gone to see the core code) what would are the types available for the controls besides ‘type’ => ‘text’,?

P.S: Also your comments are kinda broken when you log in with twitter

ERROR: please fill the required fields (name, email).

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