Title: customize_render_control_{$this->id}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# do_action( “customize_render_control_{$this->id}”, WP_Customize_Control $control )

## In this article

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

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Fires just before a specific Customizer control is rendered.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/customize_render_control_this-id/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$this->id`, refers to the control ID.

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

 `$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_render_control_this-id/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "customize_render_control_{$this->id}", $this );
    ```

[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#L420)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-control.php#L420-L420)

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

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

Checks capabilities and render the control.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Introduced. |

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