Theme Options — a practical guide to WordPress theme options with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.
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Short description
Too many options hurt UX and performance. Prefer sensible defaults and a small set of meaningful settings.
Options guidance
Prefer: Customizer / theme.json
Avoid: giant option panels with unused settings
Always: sanitize on save, escape on output