Best way to change default customizer values?

Hi,
I’m relatively new to WordPress theming. I did a few child themes to a couple of twenty* themes and I’m trying now to create a default theme for a small organization where all the customizer options should remain available but a few need changes to their default values.

So far I’ve created a file in the child theme where I change some values as they where set in the customizer.php like this:

if ( ! function_exists( 'wpforge_child_customize_css' ) ) {
function wpforge_child_customize_css() { ?>
<style type="text/css" id="wpforge-child-customizer-css">

.header_wrap{max-width:<?php echo esc_attr(get_theme_mod('header_width','75rem')); ?>;background-color:<?php echo esc_attr(get_theme_mod('header_color','#B00A23')); ?>;}

</style>
<?php }
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpforge_child_customize_css', 110);
}

But of course that doesn’t change the default color in the customizer menu. I’ve tried to re-add the setting via $wp_customize->add_setting in a similar manner to change the default value but with no success.

How would you do it?

• This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by krawall.