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Moving our child theme live

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Moving our child theme live

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- [Instructor] Once you've finished developing and testing, it's time to take your child theme live. We'll look at how to do it two ways: through the WordPress dashboard and through SFTP. One thing you'll need to keep in mind before making your child theme live, you'll need to make sure the parent theme is also on your site since the child theme relies on it. If it doesn't, WordPress will throw an error. Since we based our child theme on WordPress's current default theme, it's there. Similarly, you shouldn't need to move over any other content, with the possible exception of changes you made in the customizer. If you'd like to move those changes over without having to set them manually, you could check out the customizer export/import plugin. Now let's move over our child theme. The first way to do that is by zipping it up and installing it via the themes area of the dashboard. So first we'll go into local, and we'll…

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