Customizer: Revisit decision to disable the theme switching preview on WP.com.

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Customizer: Revisit decision to disable the theme switching preview on WP.com. #52583

Open kwight opened 3 years ago

kwight commented 3 years ago

Core WordPress has a feature in the Customizer to preview different themes on the content directly within the Customizer. This is disabled on WP.com, I think... because of performance? Let's consider revisiting that decision; maybe those concerns are no longer relevant, or our focus on promoting certain kinds of forward-looking themes means we could limit the available themes to a handful.

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kwight commented 3 years ago

This could have been performance-related (loading 300+ themes at the time). If we want to focus on our "recommended themes", then loading twenty or so themes should be doable.