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Exporting your theme

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Exporting your theme

- [Instructor] Okay, after all this work, you're ready to bundle up your theme and either ship it to another user or place it on a site. And there's a build process specifically for this purpose but before we can use it, we need to make sure all the information is correct. You'll remember in the very beginning of the course, we looked at the config dot json file and at the top here, we have some theme information. The slug, the name and the author. The slug here is the slug that will be used to name the folder that will contain the theme. So as you generate a new theme, you can put in whatever slug you want here and that becomes the theme folder and also the zipped archive. So if during the build process, you've decided to change the name of the theme, this will be the time to make that change. The name and the author entries will be used for the translation files and may also be used in style dot css unless you override them manually. So it's a good idea to make sure these are…

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