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- [Instructor] Now that I showed you how to create a local environment, I've gone ahead and switched to an already created WordPress site for this course. I'll be making a child theme for my client, Topsy Turvy Cake Design. This course is designed to show you how to create a child theme for a specific client or for yourself. That's important because it means you should know what the content is going to look like. Creating a child theme without the content is an entirely different process, since you want every possible page to look perfect under every circumstance. In our case, because we have a client in mind, we want their theme to look great for their content. One of the best tips I ever learned is to have all of the content for a site before writing a line of code. If you have the content in front of you, you'll know exactly how everything looks on the live site, you'll discover problems as you're coding, and be able…

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