Combining wordpress themes

If you are only using “a feature” of one theme, you may be better off taking your “standard” theme (the one you’d like to use throughout) and then taking the functionality from the “one-off” theme and adding it onto the former. This goes in-part with the fundamental idea of not adding such functionality to a … Read more

Displaying a widget in sidebar only when no other widgets rendered?

I not 100% clear what your question is so hopefully this can point you in the right direction for conditional widgets. I will give you 3 options. 1. is_active_widget checks if widgets are active based in the widget ID. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_widget 2. Using is_active_sidebar and creating more sidebars usually gives you better control over widget output. … Read more

Theme settings default, strange behavior before first save

Don’t rely on the options ever getting saved. Better is for the Theme to function normally, whether or not the user ever visits the Theme Settings page. First step is to define a function to return your option defaults, either: Define them in the function, and then reference that function in your option parameters array … Read more

Create more than one section in Theme Customizer

The hook customize_register is for include all your custom settings to the default core settings. Your code is a good start, Hook, there init a function, there include all settings, and sections. But you register 2 section areas with the same ID; there is wrong. If you will create two different sections on the customizer, … Read more