The topic will cover an introduction to working with the WordPress Customizer in Theme Development. It will cover a range of topics to get people going, including:

Setting up your theme for the Customizer
Add To / Remove default Customizer Sections
Add custom Panels, Sections, Settings, and Controls
Basic and Advanced Control Types
Output settings on the front end
4.6 Validate Callbacks
Tips for workflow and dry coding
The future of the Customizer
We’ll also examine the Customizer method properties, including:

Type: ThemeMod vs Option and why
Transport: Refresh vs postMessage
Sanitization: Built in and custom
Callbacks: WordPress basic and Custom callbacks

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