[Henry]

My parent theme has tons of settings in the Customizer and now I need to make a child version to use some custom template files, anyone know how to export/import all theme settings without losing all your work on the child theme?

[Joe]

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/99472/how-to-export-import-theme-customizer-settings

Theme mod settings are stored as a single database entry in the options table.

For example, If I look in my wp_options table in a localhost install, and find the key of theme_mods_twentythirteen, then this is the content of it:

 a:3:{s:16:"header_textcolor";s:6:"220e10";s:12:"header_image";s:84:"http://localhost/wptrunk/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/images/headers/diamond.png";s:17:"header_image_data";a:3:{s:3:"url";s:84:"http://localhost/wptrunk/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/images/headers/diamond.png";s:13:"thumbnail_url";s:94:"http://localhost/wptrunk/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/images/headers/diamond-thumbnail.png";s:11:"description";s:7:"Diamond";}}

That’s just saving the header image and colors and such for the twentythirteen theme. Copy that to another install and you copied all the theme mod settings for that theme.

[James]

that is quoted from Otto several years ago

I think still accurate

[Elijah]

these days the easiest way is this plugin:

Customizer Export/Import

made by Beaver Builder team 🙂

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