Title: Please fix the theme customizer
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Please fix the theme customizer

 *  [Pulsar_Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pulsar_media/)
 * (@pulsar_media)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/)
 * Hi,
 * The theme customizer in version 4.1 no longer loads the default values upon initial
   activation…it just completely ignores them. I have to tamper with each option
   and then restore it back to default to get it to save which absolutely ridiculous.
 * Please fix this stupidity ASAP.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [Pulsar_Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pulsar_media/)
 * (@pulsar_media)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607118)
 * I should also mention that the widgets are no longer available through the theme
   customizer.
 * I am not sure why the customizer has been butchered in version 4.1 because it
   seemed to work great in version 4.0.
 * Regards.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607127)
 * Do you get these problems with no plugins active and a default theme active?
 *  Thread Starter [Pulsar_Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pulsar_media/)
 * (@pulsar_media)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607133)
 * Hi WPyogi,
 * I am testing several of my themes which i sell on themeforest and they are all
   experiencing the same issues i mentioned above. I am testing them on a clean 
   install of WordPress 4.1 so the only plug-ins active are the default WordPress
   ones (akismet, etc) and Woocommerce 2.2.
 * I tested a default theme but i cant really determine if the default settings 
   are already saved or not…however with my themes i can tell that the customizer
   works completely worse in 4.1.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607137)
 * I really haven’t seen any similar reports of this issue – except some that turned
   out to be due to an site, theme or plugin problem (i.e. not WP core). Have you
   tried debugging – does anything show up?
 * And without Woocommerce and Akismet?
 *  Thread Starter [Pulsar_Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pulsar_media/)
 * (@pulsar_media)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607139)
 * Actually the widgets are now appearing…it seems the widget area needs to be active
   on the page in order for them to appear now??…that seems a bit strange and confusing.
 *  Thread Starter [Pulsar_Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pulsar_media/)
 * (@pulsar_media)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607141)
 * Hi WPyogi,
 * Is there something i need to do in WordPress 4.1 to get the default theme customizer
   settings to load upon initial activation? Perhaps some new code that i need to
   include?
 * I have a ton of options in my themes that no longer load up in WordPress 4.1…
   but they were in every previous version of WordPress.
 *  [Marcio Duarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pagelab/)
 * (@pagelab)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607411)
 * I was having a similar issue. For me it was solved by changing the get_theme_mod
   call, hardcoding the default value, like this:
 * `<?php $siteName = get_theme_mod( 'site_name', get_bloginfo( 'name' ) ); ?>`
 * or
 * `<?php $logoWidth = get_theme_mod( 'logo_width', 300 ); ?>`

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## Tags

 * [not-loading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not-loading/)
 * [theme customizer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-customizer/)

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 * Last reply from: [Marcio Duarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pagelab/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-fix-the-theme-customizer/#post-5607411)
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