Made changes to parent theme now want to use child theme

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    jessicahall2007 · Member ·

    Hiya,

    I am wondering if you can help with a little problem.

    Before I discovered how to use a child theme or what a child theme was, I installed the parent theme ‘Metro Pro’ that runs on Genesis.

    I made changes directly to the parent theme. I did not directly make changes to the CSS or code myself. I just used the appearance options and widget options to change things on the parent theme.

    I have now uploaded the child theme and activated it, this has cleared all the changes I had made on the parent theme. So I switched back to the parent them layout temporarily until I figure out what to do.

    Now I am stuck. As I have a child theme that I would like to start using to make changes safely, but I have changes on my parent theme that I wanted to keep.

    All I have done on my parent theme is make it exactly like the Metro Pro theme demo.

    Could you help me with what to do to make sure I can activate the child theme and keep the changes I had in the parent theme?

    Just to clarify, I have never gone to the style sheet in the parent theme and changed any code myself or added anything to the stylesheet. I have purely gone to Appearance- Widgets, or appearance- customize to make changes in the parent file to make it look exactly like the metro pro theme and add my personal touches.

    My site now looks like this http://www.freedomfromthenorm.com due to making changes to the parent theme, which I want to look exactly the same in the child theme.

    Thanks in advance for your help,
    Jess

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
    Sorry but no we cannot help you with this at WordPress.COM. You are posting to the wrong support forums. We provide support here only for blogs hosted by WordPress.COM and no others and that site is not among them.

    WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there.

    Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
    WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

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