Where is the theme? How to activate Newspaper theme?

Purchased the theme but super unclear how to activate it, without losing months worth of content. Someone ‘helped’ me setting it up with Visual Composer bloatware which I not want and deleted, just want to simply activate the Newspaper -child- theme I paid for. Tried some things in Theme Panel but no way to install the theme as it is. Support will be will be highly appreciated.

• This topic was modified 9 years by xbass.
• This topic was modified 9 years by xbass.

a) see the theme docs on how to install, right side of page
b) presumably you have the zip files downloaded from themeforest? FTP is best way as you can make full backup of your files first; and you should be making a download of your WP dbase through
1) WP panel > export
2) phpmyAdmin/hosting panel > save/export Php dbase used for your site
3) make copies of any special settings for things like sidebar widgets, or custom code boxes used in prior theme — save out to text file
c) you will want to install the Newspaper.zip, not the ‘all files’ zip
d) the child theme is a child of Newspaper, not child of any other theme; meaning, generally you don’t need to use child theme unless you have specific reason to do so

(( I don’t work here; just some basic advice. ))

Thanks for the support. Just not clear which documentation I need? I just want to activate the theme that I purchased just as it looks like. On the video it looks not that hard anyway. Below there’s wtitten ‘Required plugins: Visual Composer’??? Why is this crap requiered? I need nothing fancy or complicated, just a simple blog. Is there any way to manage this theme without that horror plugin?

I don’t use VC for much the same reason. However, you might try their new TD Composer …. muuuuuch better and can be used to setup custom blocks/areas on home page, which is what I use it for. Documentation > Newspaper > install theme ?