Updating to Premium and the use of Child Theme

[Linda]

Linda

January 31, 2015 at 10:00 am

I created my wordpress sight originally using the Virtue free theme. I made customizations on that theme and later created a child theme after reading that it was best to do this in order to retain your customizations. After I created the child theme, I updated to the premium version of Virtue. I later realized that I probably should have started out that way and created the child theme on the get go. I updated the style.css in the child theme folder to read: /*
Theme Name: Virtue Child Theme
Theme URI: *Login to see link
Description: Child Theme for Virtue
Author: Kadence Themes
Author URI: *Login to see link
Template: virtue_premium
Version: 1.0
*/
@import url(‘../virtue_premium/style.css’);

In order to get the premium features I had to activate the Virtue Premium Theme rather than the child theme. I made more changes. In an attempt to add a “continue shopping” button to my Cart page, I added some code to the functions.php (in the Virtue Theme folder rather than the child (I don’t have a functions.php folder in my child folder) and something broke. I got a fatal error and could not get back into my site. I contacted my web hosting company and they got me back into the site using a default theme. I changed my theme back to the child theme and I am able to use my site however the functions associated with the premium theme are not there and I have no idea how to get them or use them as long as I have the child theme activated. I am also afraid at this point to update or upgrade any of the theme. Any help is greatly appreciated.