Can I fake being in the customizer?

Question

I'm trying to get a list of all theme mods / options currently registered. The normal way you can do it is to be inside the customizer, then $wp_customize->settings().

This will return a k,v pair of all the currenty registered theme mods that can, say, be saved.

If I inspect the global wp_customize outside the customizer itself, it's null, as expected.

Is there a workaround for this?

Answer 1

You don't need to fake being in the customizer, just grab the theme mods directly via get_theme_mods. Afterall they're just theme specific options.

Something like this would print out all the theme mods in a definition list:

function tomjn_print_theme_mods() {
    $mods = get_theme_mods();
    if ( empty( $mods ) {
        return;
    }
    echo '<dl>';
    foreach ( $mods as $k => $v ) {
        echo '<dt>'.esc_html( $k ).'</dt>';
        echo '<dd>'.esc_html( $v ).'</dd>';
    }
    echo. '</dl>';
}

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_theme_mods