@t-p thanks for your response I appreciate the help. It turns out I needed to find the footer via Pagelayer->theme templates and I was able to delete/edit it that way.
@jnashhawkins Thanks for all the info! I’ll definitely try that out. However, I’ve tried renaming (and even deleting) the child theme and it still doesn’t fix the problem, I fear I’ve broken my site beyond repair and will have to start over again ??
@jnashhawkins hmm, I’ll try this when I can thanks – but in the meantime, does anyone have an idea as to how to get back to the old theme without access to the wordpress backend? this error comes up on the admin panel as well and I don’t know how to change the theme outside of wordpress (via FTP or CPanel or something)