[HelpHub] Feedback on Customizer

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Issue Description

Originally reported by https://profiles.wordpress.org/abitofmind/

Please state the WordPress version / date when the Customizer was introduced.

It was: https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-4/ which was published on 2012-06-13.

As a general recommendation for the documentation of major features, I’d appreciate a short mention in which version/date that feature was introduced with a link to the to the official changelog/blog. This provides context which can often help.

Let’s you estimate why something worked as it worked back then, and when that behavior changed, or offers an explanation why something does yet not work where you would possibly expect it.

In some instances of the documentation the genesis is mentioned or shortly wrapped up, in some not at all. Would appreciate that. Searching yourself through the Changelog or via Google is cumbersome detective work, as they have no easy chronological search capabilities.

URL of the Page with the Issue

https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/customizer/

Section of Page with the issue

Why is this a problem?

Suggested Fix

[github-actions]

Heads up @femkreations @atachibana - the "user documentation" label was applied to this issue.

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Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.

[atachibana]

This is a very good point. I would add the following sentence at the top of the page.

WordPress Version 3.4 introduced Theme Customizer, which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you’re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you can change colors, backgrounds, custom image headers, and so on.

[atachibana]

Since there seems to be no particular comment, I have reflected the changes.