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Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#29288 new enhancement

Settings updated within the Customizer Preview are not synced up to main app Panel

Reported by: westonruter's profile westonruter Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: lowest
Severity: normal Version: 3.4
Component: Customize Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: javascript Cc:

Description

The Customizer has two copies of models for the registered settings: one set in in the Customizer panel parent frame, and changes to these result in the settings getting copied over to the preview either via postMessage or via a refreshing the preview entirely. Updating a setting model from within preview directly, however, does not propagate up to the model. There is currently a one-way-sync from the panel to the preview.

As a workaround, the preview can send messages to the panel for which handlers can apply the updates to the settings, but it would be good if this was automatic.

By implementing a bi-directional syncing of settings between the panel and preview, there would be lots of opportunities for inline front-end editor controls to more easily be added into the preview directly.

See also https://twitter.com/bradyvercher/status/502163462990995456

Change History (8)

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core-customize by celloexpressions. View the logs.


9 years ago

#3 @valendesigns
9 years ago

We should put this on the list for 4.4

#4 follow-up: @celloexpressions
9 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release

@westonruter how difficult do you think it would be to do this?

It'll definitely be useful once we can implement it, especially if we ever revisit the idea of front-end-editing integrated with the Customizer (this would obviously be a prerequisite).

#5 in reply to: ↑ 4 @westonruter
9 years ago

  • Priority changed from low to lowest

Replying to celloexpressions:

@westonruter how difficult do you think it would be to do this?

Not difficult at all. As noted in my comment above, the Customize Inline Editing plugin shows how to do it. It's just that the functionality would need to be added to Core. That being said, it's easy for a plugin to add the functionality itself, so it's not really something that has to be added to Core.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core-customize by westonruter. View the logs.


7 years ago

#8 @celloexpressions
3 years ago

While this is something that plugins can implement as a workaround, as shown above, it should really be implemented in core. I would expect settings to snyc both ways as the default behavior.

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