Thank you for your reply Lucian. You clarified all that I needed to know and I guess I should probably stay away from Child themes since I’m just using the settings/preferences within the theme at this point. The theme very good without any additional tweaks, and is mainly why I purchased it.

I also appreciate you being thorough about the Child themes and trouble shooting the issue I experience. I reupload the included child theme that came with the newest update, and thought about trying it and purging the cache, so it was good that you covered that so I know for sure what to do if I choose to use the Child theme. I forgot to ask that but I was thinking about it.

Based on what you advise about the Child Theme, I apparently don’t need to use it for this current project, and maybe should stay away from it with other projects since you don’t recommend it anymore.

Thanks again for the detailed reply!

I backed up the theme, uploaded child theme and activated, and it was okay with the original theme. I updated the Newspaper theme to latest update and that seemed to break the site because it stripped the menu and duplicated logo and messed up the site. I thought this was an issue with the new theme, but it appears to be the combination with the old child theme, because when I activated the main theme it fixed the site, and it appears to have the settings I setup when using the last version of the main Newspaper theme.

Again, I think I would have saved a issues now and in the future if I was advised to start with Child theme when installing.

Going forward is there a way to create a child theme that doesn’t mess up the site? I’m just concerned that updating the main theme in the future will mess up changes I make.

Please Advise.