Title: guidelines
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# guidelines

 *  [FurciferRising](https://wordpress.org/support/users/furciferrising/)
 * (@furciferrising)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guidelines/)
 * Do the theme review guidelines no longer state that the thumbnail must be an 
   accurate representation of the out of the box theme?

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 *  Theme Author [TT Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomastoman/)
 * (@tomastoman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/guidelines/#post-7902589)
 * [@furciferrising](https://wordpress.org/support/users/furciferrising/): [Here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Screenshot)
   you can read about the current requirements for the theme screenshots. The theme
   screenshot should accurately show the theme design, but it may not represent 
   the look when you activate the theme for the first time. If you set a header 
   image in “Appearance > Header”, a background image in “Appearance > Background”
   and create a custom menu in “Appearance > Menus”, the resultant layout will look
   exactly the same as you can see on the screenshot. The illustrative pictures 
   visible on the screenshot have been taken from [https://unsplash.com/](https://unsplash.com/)
   and are licensed under the CC0 which means you can copy, modify, distribute and
   use the photos, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 
   I will add this information into the “readme.txt” file in a future update.
 * Best regards,
    Tomas Toman

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