Display Options on Customizer

  • Resolved Blogging Theme Styles

    (@bloggingthemes)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    First, it’s always nice to have updates with improvements, but there is something I noticed as I was customizing my theme’s WooCommerce style. I started my theme with the _s starter theme which lets you add WooCommerce support (which is a nice feature). However, this evening I noticed that this:

    Looking for the product display options? They can now be found in the Customizer

    I’m not sure how many will agree with me on this, but that was a bad move. Anything and everything associated with WooCommerce should exist within the WooCommerce dashboard…not the customizer. I recommend not splitting up settings.

    One of a few reasons is that my theme already has an added section in the customizer for WooCommerce options that relate to the theme. This will become confusing for the end-user when they now see more than one WooCommerce in the customizer.

    I could relocate the theme’s WooCommerce custom settings to the actual WooCommerce tab/section, but not everyone will have this version of WC and therefore, my relocated settings will not be found until the user updates WooCommerce.

    For now, I have to run with a separate WooCommerce tab/section in the customizer which means two WooCommerce sections.

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  • Plugin Contributor Gerhard Potgieter

    (@kloon)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    The decision to move the display setting to the customizer was a logical one for us since the customizer is a visual editor, moving the setting that changes the visual appearance of your shop makes sense since you can now preview the changes as you change the settings.

    I hear what you say about having multiple WooCommerce sections and agree there should only be one. Since _s is also an Automattic product I will pass this on to the team responsible and have them look into merging the settings into the core WooCommerce section and not their own one.

    Thread Starter Blogging Theme Styles

    (@bloggingthemes)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Fast response…thanks.
    I still think everything should be in one dashboard, but I’m sure it would take a lot of users to request the change. Anyway, about the display settings in the customizer for a live preview, this is not possible if you change the thumbnail sizing. You have to regenerate the images via third party plugin. Perhaps the thumbnail sizing should be the one item left out of the customizer…

    As for the _s theme, yes, this will definitely need updating as a lot of theme authors use it.

    UPDATE: I just updated WooCommerce in my local XAMPP development local) which now puts the tab into the customizer. However, I noticed that the image sizes are default when my previous settings were different (my own size). So on the update, it looks like my previous thumbnail sizes were not imported.

    Cheers!

    Caleb Burks

    (@icaleb)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Images should actually regenerate live now, in the customizer.

    It looks like the underscores boilerplate could you some updates though, I opened an issue here: https://github.com/Automattic/underscores.me/issues/65

    It does nothing with WC image sizes though, so the defaults will be used.

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