Update problems + child theme

Hi, I’m Diego from Argentina. I apologize because my English is bad. First of all I would like to thank you and congratulate you for this WordPress theme. It is really amazing and very intuitive to use it.

I need help. I would like to add the new features that you are incorporating in each update, but I am having problems. I made the update through the Envato Market Plug-In according to this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/

… but I absolutely lost EVERYTHING I had customized in the “Newspaper” theme. I had to load a backup of the site and go back. No update was made.

I read that it is necessary to add a “child” of the theme but I do not know how to do it, and I do not know how to copy everything I did in the main theme and clone it into the child. Can you help me? Can I give you my username and password of the WP and the cPanel?

I have little knowledge about web design and I have a online newspaper here in Argentina. I don’t want to lose all the work that I had made and has to design everything again in a “child” theme.

Thanks for your time. I am at your disposal.

Thanks for your reply, Catalin.

So… I’ll download the latest Newspaper Theme and upload it via FTP like this tutorial shows it and I will not lose anything? I already has a “newspaper” folder in the wp-content/theme. What about the “theme child”? I have to create it? I have to disable the cache in order to do this?

All customization that I did was via the Newspaper Theme Panel. I will lose it too? What’s the “theme core files”?

Thanks for your time and sorry for all this question. I don’t have the knowledge.

OK, I red the documentation, thanks!
Via FTP I add the Newspaper-Child, previously extracted from the themeforest-5489609-newspaper file. Inside this file, in a folder called CODE I found the “Newspaper-Child” folder. That’s the folder that I upload into the “public_html/wp-content/themes”
There I have 2 folders now: Newspaper and Newspaper-child.

Then I have to go to the WP administrator and I have to activate the “Newspaper-child” theme. That’s allright?
After that I have to update the Newspaper folder (in wp-content/themes) via FTP with the themeforest-5489609-newspaper file and that’s all?

Thanks for your time.

I’m doing it right now, thanks.

When you release an update I have to upload the “Newspaper” folder via FTP and it will be OK? I don’t have to change anything in the Newspaper-child, right?

Hi Simion, thanks for your reply.

I only make some modification via “Theme Panel” in the child theme so I guess that I don’t need to look up for any “list of modified files” that you include with each update, right? Please tell me where is that list and the changelog of each update?

Thanks