Complete Customizer Development For WordPress Themes/Plugins

Course Curriculum

Lecture 1: All The Features We Will Learn To Develop Our Theme Options with the Customizer

Chapter 1: Introduction & Getting Started

Lecture 1: How the Theme Customizer Works

Lecture 2: The 4 Components of the Theme Customizer and What We Will Br Developing

Lecture 3: Starting Our Theme Options Section

Lecture 4: Add a Customizer Panel and a Date Control With A Calendar

Lecture 5: Change the Customizer Control Order, Add a Description, & Add Date Default

Lecture 6: Add New Panel and Section as well as Add a Textbox Control Under Our New Section

Chapter 2: Important Announcements and Videos

Lecture 1: Thank You Message From Instructor Bruce Chamoff Plus an Announcement

Lecture 2: Theme Modification API – Displaying Your Customizer Setting Data in any PHP File

Lecture 3: Troubleshooting When Panels and Sections Do Not Display For You

Lecture 4: A Special Note About Panels. Are They Really Necessary? My Opinion and Advice

Lecture 5: If you are a plugin developer, this course is for you as well.

Lecture 6: Have the Latest Version of WordPress Installed When Developing the Customizer

Lecture 7: A special note about using text domains.

Chapter 3: Basic Controls

Lecture 1: Add a URL Control

Lecture 2: Add a Textarea Control

Lecture 3: Add a Password Field Control

Lecture 4: Add a Range Control

Lecture 5: Add an Email Field Control

Chapter 4: Really Cool Advanced Controls

Lecture 1: Add an Image Uploader Control

Lecture 2: Add a Color Picker Control to Your Customizer

Lecture 3: Media Control For Uploading Audio Files Such as MP3s

Lecture 4: Background Image Control

Chapter 5: Customizer Tips and Tricks

Lecture 1: Add 5 Textboxes With Very Little Code

Lecture 2: Add 5 Textboxes from One PHP Array With Very Little Code

Lecture 3: Create a Select Menu In Your Customizer

Lecture 4: Create a Select Menu With Featured WordPress Posts

Lecture 5: Radio Button Controls

Lecture 6: How To Validate Any Setting With PHP Using Validate_Callback

Chapter 6: Custom Controls – Build Your Own

Lecture 1: Our First Custom Control: Facebook Profile with a new Panel and Section

Lecture 2: Image Controls for Your Theme's Logo and Sliders

Lecture 3: Inject Custom CSS Into The Head Tags

Lecture 4: Add Controls To Other Sections

Chapter 7: Advanced Customizer Topics To Make Development Even More Awesome!

Lecture 1: Using the postMessage Transport and jQuery to See Changes Immediately

Lecture 2: So, Which Transport Should You Use? Refresh or postMessage?

Lecture 3: Hiding Sections On Any Page With Active_Callback

Lecture 4: Priorities of Core Panels and Sections and How to Place Your Own In Between

Lecture 5: Changing Setting Defaults and Transports with the get_setting Method

Lecture 6: Setting Types: theme_mod vs option and Which To Use

Lecture 7: Removing Panels, Sections, Controls, and Settings

Chapter 8: Custom CUSTOM Controls!

Lecture 1: A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Control That Displays on Every Page (Part 1)

Lecture 2: A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Control That Displays on Every Page (Part 2)

Lecture 3: Create an Custom Instructions Control Explaining How To Use Your Theme

Chapter 9: Master Customizer 50 Question Test