Primer is a powerful theme that brings clarity to your content in a fresh design. This is the parent for all themes in the GoDaddy Primer theme family.
This causes some confusion as it appears (based on the customizer) the featured image should replace the hero image but it does not until the customizer settings are saved.
Default value of get_theme_mod should be 1 to match the customizer default value.
eg:
Original Report: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/primer-mins-theme-featured-image-override-hero-image
We are setting the default value of
use_featured_hero_imageto 1 (Checked) in the customizer: https://github.com/godaddy/wp-primer-theme/blob/9c80bf4bfce4044f9af806528e305f7cad048d25/inc/customizer.php#L182-L188But we're not referencing a default value in our
get_theme_modcall: https://github.com/godaddy/wp-primer-theme/blob/21557638554f63dd2d57825e72dd68330497f02d/inc/helpers.php#L264.This causes some confusion as it appears (based on the customizer) the featured image should replace the hero image but it does not until the customizer settings are saved.
Default value of
get_theme_modshould be 1 to match the customizer default value. eg: