theme customizer issue

Question

I am trying to employ the theme customizer and I am seeing an issue. For some reason, the text that is stored in the customizer will not show in the footer but when I click on the customizer, it does show on the preview. I have found that if I delete the text and remake it, it usually works. I should not have to do that though. Do you see an issue in my code?

 add_action('customize_register', 'add_footer_copyright');

 function add_footer_copyright($wp_customize) {

  $wp_customize->add_setting( 'footer_copyright', array(
 'default' => 'Copyright &copy; 201 - Designed By: <a href="http://example.com"  title="Designed & Developed By">Designer Name</a>',
  'capability' => 'edit_theme_options',

  ) );

 $wp_customize->add_control( 'footer_copyright', array(
 'label' => 'Footer Copyright',
 'section' => 'title_tagline',
 'type' => 'text'
 ) );
}

Answer 1

I have rewrote the code you given with minor changes. Please try this:

add_action('customize_register', 'add_footer_copyright');

 function add_footer_copyright($wp_customize) {

  $wp_customize->add_setting( 'footer_copyright', array(
  'default' => 'Copyright © 201 - Designed By: Designer Name',
  'transport' => 'postMessage',
  'capability' => 'edit_theme_options',

  ) );

 $wp_customize->add_control( 'footer_copyright', array(
 'label' => 'Footer Copyright',
 'section' => 'title_tagline',
 'settings'   => 'footer_copyright',
 'type' => 'text'
 ) );
}

You will notice that I added transport in add_setting and settings in add_control. Please note that the transport can be either 'refresh' (default) or 'postMessage'. Only set this to 'postMessage' if you are writing custom Javascript to control the Theme Customizer's live preview.

I checked by removing transport since I do not have Javascript to control the Theme Customizer's live preview. The settings are getting saved in first shot and reflecting when I reload the page.