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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points
Posted by Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points

How do I get my own screenshot of my theme to appear under "appearance"?otherwise the child theme is working.

can't see the screen shot png file I placed next to the style.css in the child theme folder.

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I believe it needs to be a certain size (I.e. Dimensions.800 by 600 pixels) and make sure the file is inside your parent theme folder.

Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points
Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points

Perfect, thank you!

Marissa Richardson
Marissa Richardson
47,542 Points
Marissa Richardson
Marissa Richardson
47,542 Points

To have a screenshot for your child theme, you must have a file called Screenshot.png. Include this file in the same place as your child theme's style.css.

Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points
Tyler Bain
Tyler Bain
1,788 Points

so when I took my own screen shot of a theme called Point and copied screenshot.png into the child Point child folder it didn't work, although when I copied Zach's screenshot into child twentythirteen folder it worked just fine. Thanks for your help Marissa.