Title: Theme Customization API now showing
Last modified: October 27, 2016

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# Theme Customization API now showing

 *  Resolved [mrhardwer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrhardwer/)
 * (@mrhardwer)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/)
 * Hey there,
 * I’m working on a new Worpdress-Theme and I’m currently stuck with the Theme Customization
   API. I’m not really new to WordPress/Coding but never had anything to do with
   the API. So I watched some totorials and readed some posts about that whole thing
   and started including it into my Theme. Sofar everything went well. But now for
   some reason, my new sections I wrote into my functions.php are not showing up
   in the Theme Customasation API. I allredy tryed to remove some parts but nothing
   has changed. Is there anything wrong with my code? Or is it something different?
 * Here’s my functions.php code:
 *     ```
       function tonya_customizer_register($wp_customize) {
       	$wp_customize->add_section('tonya_colors', array(
       		'title' => __('Colors', 'tonya'),
       		'description' => 'Modify the theme colors'
       	));
   
       	// Background Color
       	$wp_customize->add_setting('background_color', array(
       		'default' => '#fff',
       	));
       		$wp_customize->add_control( new WP_Customize_Color_Control($wp_customize, 'background_color', array(
       		'label' => __('Edit Background Color','tonya'),
       		'section' => 'tonya_colors',
       		'settings' => 'background_color',
       	) ));
   
       	// Plain Text
       	$wp_customize->add_setting('plain_text', array(
       		'default' => 'test',
       	));
       	$wp_customize->add_control( new WP_Customize_Control($wp_customize, 'plain_text', array(
       		'label' => __('Edit Plain Text','tonya'),
       		'section' => 'tonya_colors',
       		'settings' => 'plain_text',
       	) ));
   
       	// Upload Image
       	$wp_customize->add_setting('upload_image', array(
       		'default' => 'test',
       	));
       	$wp_customize->add_control( new WP_Customize_Upload_Control($wp_customize, 'upload_image', array(
       		'label' => __('Edit Uplaod Image','tonya'),
       		'section' => 'tonya_colors',
       		'settings' => 'upload_image',
       	) ));
   
       	// Checkbox
       	$wp_customize->add_section('tonya_checkbox', array(
       		'title' => __('Layout Options', 'tonya'),
       		'description' => 'Modify the layout'
       	));
       	$wp_customize->add_setting('checkbox_setting', array(
       		'default' => 'left',
       	));
       	$wp_customize->add_control( 'checkbox_select', array(
       		'label' => __('Checkbox One','tonya'),
       		'section' => 'tonya_checkbox',
       		'settings' => 'checkbox_setting',
       		'type' => 'checkbox',
       		'choices' => array(
       			'left' => 'Right Checkbox',
       			'right' => 'Left Checkbox',
       		)
       	));
       }
   
       function tonya_css_customizer() {
       	?>
       	<style type="text/css">
       		body { background-color: #<?php echo get_theme_mod('background_color'); ?>; }
       	</style>
       	<?php
       }
   
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [LebCit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lebcit/)
 * (@lebcit)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362400)
 * Hello,
 * Did you add your action(s)?
    `add_action('customize_register','tonya_customizer_register');`
 * Tell me and i’ll get back to you.
 * SYA 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mrhardwer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrhardwer/)
 * (@mrhardwer)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362554)
 * Hey LebCit,
 * First off thank you for the quick and helpfull rely.
    After I copyed the add_action
   above the first function (tonya_customizer_register), the sections with the settings
   are now showing in the Theme Customization API. Now I see that the changes I 
   make (background-color) are not working. Might I need another action for my second
   function (tonya_css_customizer)? Or do I need to paste the code somewere else?
 *  [LebCit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lebcit/)
 * (@lebcit)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362625)
 * Hello,
 * Great! the **add_action** can be placed before or after the function, so you’ve
   done well.
 * For the css try this
 *     ```
       function tonya_css_customizer() {
       	$background_color = get_theme_mod( 'background_color' ); 
   
       	if ( $background_color != '#fff' ) :
       	?>
       		<style type="text/css">
       			body {
       				background-color: <?php echo $background_color; ?>;
       			}
       		</style>
       	<?php
       	endif;
       }
       add_action( 'wp_head', 'tonya_css_customizer' );
       ```
   
 * Tell me if i can help you further.
 * SYA 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [LebCit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lebcit/).
 *  Thread Starter [mrhardwer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrhardwer/)
 * (@mrhardwer)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362666)
 * Hey LebCit,
 * I looked at one of the totorial videos once again and I saw that the 2 actions(
   customize_register and wp_head) were allredy included. I somehow deleted these
   2 lines of code without noticing it.
 * For information: I now included both codes
 *     ```
       add_action('wp_head','tonya_css_customizer');
       add_action('customize_register','tonya_customizer_register');
       ```
   
 * under the 2 functions in my functions.php and now everything works as it should
   do.
 * But still thank you LebCit for putting me on the right way!
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [mrhardwer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrhardwer/).
 *  [LebCit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lebcit/)
 * (@lebcit)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362983)
 * Hello,
 * You are most welcome
    Did you notice my first question
 * > Did you add your action(s)?
 * See the **(s)** 🙂
 * I thought that you did it for the style (my fault)
 * Again, you are most welcome !
    Happy codding !
 * SYA 🙂

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-customization-api-now-showing/#post-8362983)
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