Hello
I need to update my theme to address the broken instagram link of newspaper in my current theme. I have been told that the most up today Newspaper theme addresses and fixes that issue.
However I don’t want to lose all my formatting and style and I want my site to look exactly as it does. I updated the theme and lost all formatting and style and had to revert to a backup to get my site back up to what it was before.
Someone has suggested a ‘child theme’ may prevent this from happening? Is this correct and how would I do or use that please?
Hi,
That would depend on how you made this formatting. If you made any modifications or additions to the theme files these will be lost after the update, since the old files will be replaced. Theme customization should be made either through the theme panel custom code section where applicable, or using a child theme
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
A child theme is useful if you want to modify theme files, the guide mentions which files are supported and how to proceed.
Thanks
