Haven't Upgraded Hueman Theme – No Child Theme made – Help

Hi JoAnne. Creating a child theme with Hueman is pretty easy. Open the Theme Options, then click the Help tab in the upper righthand corner. One of the options in the list is to download a sample child theme. Add this theme in the normal way by selecting the zip file you download, then activate the child theme. You’ll now have a pre-configured child theme with a style.css file and functions.php file to which you can add customizations. If you’ve made your css changes in a plugin then they will be applied as before. If you made your css changes in the Hueman parent theme, copy your current css changes from the parent theme to the child theme style.css file. Now your changes will be saved whenever you update the parent theme. Just as a precaution, prior to upgrading the parent Hueman theme, I activate a default WP theme like Twenty Fifteen, then upgrade the Hueman parent theme, then re-activate your child theme. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Hello, first of all, congrats for your excellent theme. Its suites to many websites because of its options and flexibility.
Well, i have the same issue as JFlynnRN. I would love to upgrad HUEMAN but i’ve never made the child theme, and i also made many changes to the parent theme.
I followed ur steps, so I downloaded the theme-child and installed it. I also copied the ccs changes from the parent theme to the child theme style.ccs file. I go to theme editor and i find only these options (PS: i use french version):

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Modèles
Fonctions du thème
(functions.php)
Styles
Feuille de style
(style.css)
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As u can see, i cant find the other folders present in the parent theme such as :

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Modèles
Modèle pour l’erreur 404
(404.php)
Archives
(archive.php)
Commentaires
(comments.php)
content-featured.php
content-standard.php
content.php
Pied de page
(footer.php)
class-tgm-plugin-activation.php
dynamic-styles.php
meta-boxes.php
theme-options.php
Fonctions du thème
(functions.php)
En-tête
(header.php)
featured.php
page-image.php
page-title.php
pagination.php
post-formats.php
post-nav.php
related-posts.php
Modèle pour la page d’accueil
(index.php)
ot-loader.php
Modèle de page Child Menu
(page-templates/child-menu.php)
Modèle de page
(page.php)
Résultats de recherche
(search.php)
Formulaire de recherche
(searchform.php)
sidebar-2.php
Colonne latérale
(sidebar.php)
Article seul
(single.php)
Styles
Feuille de style
(style.css)
responsive.css
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My question is : how can we add the other folders to the child theme? In order to keep the same configurations as the parent theme before upgrading it.

Thank you for ur kind help !

You don’t need to add all the other folders and files to your child theme. You only need to copy code or files to your child theme if you intend to customize them. The purpose of the child theme is to allow you to make changes and customizations to specific functions or files and not have them be overwritten when you upgrade the parent theme. When the parent theme is upgraded all the files in the parent theme are replaced, but your child theme files are unaffected. When your site is generated it first looks in the child theme for custom code or files. If it finds any in your child theme it uses those. Then it gets the rest of the site files from the parent theme. If the same file exists in both the child theme and the parent theme, the file in the child theme is used and the file in the parent theme is ignored.

Thak you for ur feedback. The problem is that i dont remember which files i changed in the parent theme. And now after installing the child theme, i dont know if i should copy all the files? I’m afraid that after upgrading i lose all customization i did before in the parent theme.
I’m not really an expert and i’d love to have more precisions. thanks !!

The parent theme files would all have the same date (probably the date you installed it). Anything with a more recent date would most likely be a file that you changed.