The Customizer has been around since WordPress 3.4, yet it is one of the most unknown and under appreciated features around. This session starts out with learning what the Customizer is, from where users can access it, and why it is so awesome. It then proceeds to theme mods, the Customizer API, how to integrate it in your themes and plugins, and dive into how you can extend existing functionality. Finally it covers some tutorials and example implementations, what default themes do with it, and how _s encourages its use.

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