Dev Log · Advanced Themer 13

Header Glow-Up, Mobile Fixes & a Little Rocket

Today was a big one for Advanced Themer 13. We rebuilt how the header is put together so it can carry a real logo, gave the phone number a proper home, got everything behaving on phones, and added a floating admin launcher for editing on the fly. Oh, and we upgraded to the newest WordPress the same afternoon. No pressure.

October 6, 2026  ·  WordPress 7.1.2  ·  Astra 4.13  ·  SolarBluSeth

A real logo, right before the title

Header Options now has a Logo field with a Media Library picker and a height slider, plus a live preview at the top of the settings page. Rather than squeezing an extra <img> into the markup, we feed the logo into the theme's own logo slot. That way Astra handles placement, it stays accessible, and it doesn't break on the next theme update.

The trick is that WordPress lets you filter any theme mod on the way out. Here's the general pattern (simplified):

// Point the theme's custom_logo at an image chosen in our own settings.
add_filter( 'theme_mod_custom_logo', function ( $value ) {
    $url = get_option( 'my_plugin_logo' );
    return $url ? attachment_url_to_postid( $url ) : $value;
} );

Docs: theme_mod_{$name} · attachment_url_to_postid() · get_custom_logo

The phone number found its seat

The phone number used to live in a separate row under the menu, where it ended up stranded with odd spacing. Funny thing: adding it to the menu by hand always looked right. So we did the same thing in code. The plugin now adds the phone (and the CTA button) to the end of the primary menu, so it sits in its own slot at the far right with a subtle divider.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', function ( $items, $args ) {
    if ( 'primary' !== $args->theme_location ) return $items;
    return $items . '<li class="menu-item my-phone">…</li>';
}, 10, 2 );

Docs: wp_nav_menu_items. It still pulls from the Header Options settings, so editing the number updates desktop and mobile at once.

Mobile: three gremlins, three fixes

Meet "Advt Admin"

New this round is a little rocket button pinned to the bottom-right corner of the front end. Tap it and a menu pops up with everything we reach for most:

It hooks into wp_footer, so it works with any theme, not just Astra. It also politely moves the theme's scroll-to-top arrow out of its way.

Upgrade day: WordPress 7.1.2

We also moved the dev site to the latest WordPress today, mid-sprint, because why not. Advanced Themer 13 loaded cleanly, settings saved, and the header, menus and admin launcher all behaved. We'll keep watching it over the next few days, but so far so good.

Today at a glance