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Adding a screenshot

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- [Instructor] After this process, we have a highly customized and unique child theme. But there's one thing we haven't done, and it's one I forget almost every time I create a child theme. Right now, if you go back to your site and go to Appearance and then Themes, you'll see that all the other themes have a nice and clean preview. But our child theme has nothing. And when you look at the theme details, you'll see the white and gray checker screen. That's because right now, our theme doesn't have a proper screenshot. Let's go to our code editor. We'll take a look at 2019. And in this folder, you will see screenshot.png. That's what we want to create for our theme. So we'll close this. And close screenshot. And let's go to the front end of our site. And I'm going to use the Mac's default screenshot tool with cmd + shift + 4. And I'm going to grab a mostly square shape. Let me scroll down a little bit. Cmd + shift + 4. Mostly square. And I'll save that. I'll go to my desktop. There's…

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