Automattic quietly introduced a new Jetpack feature in 2.2. Online documentation is still in process, and it’s not even listed in the changelog; but it’s something all theme developers can take advantage of right now. It’s called Featured Content (FC), and you want to start using it with your themes.
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Category: Tutorials
Using the WordPress Theme Customizer to choose between excerpts or full content
The Theme Customizer, introduced in WordPress 3.4, is a powerful tool for theme settings and options. In this tutorial, we’ll give our users a choice of how they would like their posts presented on the blog page: excerpts, or full post content. Our setting will be displayed as radio buttons, with a default value of “excerpt”.
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Adding a logo uploader to your WordPress theme with the Theme Customizer
Let’s create a logo uploader using the new Theme Customizer, which was released with WordPress 3.4. This will allow users to place an image in our theme’s header; if no logo has been uploaded, we’ll fall back to displaying the site title and description instead.
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