Title: customize_control_active
Published: September 4, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘customize_control_active’, bool $active, WP_Customize_Control $control )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters response of [WP_Customize_Control::active()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_control/active/).

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$active`bool

Whether the Customizer control is active.

`$control`[WP_Customize_Control](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_control/)

[WP_Customize_Control](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_control/)
instance.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $active = apply_filters( 'customize_control_active', $active, $control );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php#L275)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php#L275-L275)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Customize_Control::active()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_control/active/)`wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php` |

Checks whether control is active to current Customizer preview.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_control_active/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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