Hi, I'm new to theme & plugin dev, go easy on me :)
There are 3 specific areas I'm trying to wrap my head around and understand what WP is trying to do with future releases, and how should I begin coding to these standards.
(I will soon start following the blog, irc, news, trac, etc. thanks.)
Theme settings/options:
A) Theme Customization API (Customize)
B) Settings API (Settings)
C) Plugin API (Appearance)
See why I'm confused? There are 3 areas I can implement settings/options. My first stab was to go after Customize. So I began coding and put ALL of my settings/options in there. Looks/works great! However, when I started to dev a few plugins, I had a look at B & C above and realized that these are great places to put ALL my settings as well.
So I have a ton of completed settings in Customize, but do you think I should put my settings in Settings or Appearance?
At first thought, I was thinking Customize would be solely for Front-End styling: Background Image, Logo, Fonts?
Then use Settings API for things like: if checked() locate_template(ACTIVATE_CUSTOM_PLUGIN)?
What do you guys think and what does WP want me to do for future standards?
Thanks WP peeps!