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Building a WordPress theme

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Building a WordPress theme

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- [Instructor] I know I said we're concerning ourselves with the needs of non-programmers in this course, but I also know there are developers out there who don't use version control. So let's not leave them completely behind. Let's take a quick look at a programming example, a WordPress theme. This example is going to be a little different because we're looking at a pre-existing Git repository that's been worked on for quite a while by a lot of people. We're going to be looking at the Git repository for this WordPress theme 2020, which is the built-in default theme for WordPress 5.3. It was originally developed on GitHub. As you can see, it's been archived now, but we have the repository in the Exercise Files. We can see that there is an enormous history of work here. Now as it happens, there isn't a ton of branching and merging going on here because of the way they were using GitHub. So that makes it a little easier to…

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