Title: get_theme_mod doesn't get default set in add_setting function
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# get_theme_mod doesn't get default set in add_setting function

 *  [Robert.Vidrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertvidrine/)
 * (@robertvidrine)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_theme_mod-doesnt-get-default-set-in-add_setting-function/)
 * I have successfully made some new theme modifications using the Theme Customization
   API, but have run into a problem that doesn’t seem to be documented. In the last
   step, where I am setting up the writing of the CSS to in the head, the get_theme_mod
   function isn’t picking up the default value I defined when I setup the setting
   with add_setting.
 * The documentation for get_theme_mod says that there is a second argument, which
   is either boolean or a string. Obviously, I can spell out the default value I
   want here, but this makes this statement very long (I’m specifying a url for 
   a background image), and ignores the fact that I already defined the default 
   during the add_setting process.
 * I have tried making the second argument to get_theme_mod TRUE (the numeral 1 
   is passed to the CSS), ‘true’ (the word true is passed), 1 (the numeral 1 is 
   passed), with no luck getting it to pass my default value from the add_setting
   method. (When I tried using default with no quotes I got an error since default
   is a reserved keyword in PHP relating to switch functions.)
 * What can I pass to get_theme_mod to instruct it to pick up the default value 
   for that setting that I included as an argument to the add_setting method?
    Thanks
   in advance for all help!

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