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Testing our theme with extreme content

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Testing our theme with extreme content

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- [Instructor] The beauty of having a local installation of your website is that you can do things you normally wouldn't do on a live site. One of those things is pushing our child theme to the limits to see if and when it breaks. While we should always develop with real content, it's worth testing with extreme outliers when it comes to content, widgets and menus. That's because we never know exactly how a theme, or any software we build, will be used. Especially if a wide audience of people is using it. So we want to plan for as many scenarios as possible. Extreme content will help us do that. One of the best ways to test extreme content is to use WordPress's own theme unit test, which you can download from the WordPress Codex. This is an XML file that will install a number of posts, pages and other content, as well as make some changes to the settings and menus. Let's go ahead and download that now. In order to do…

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