I'm really new to Wordpress development and had made a mistake by changing a parent theme for customizations instead of customizing a child theme. Not i cannot use the updates that my theme provider provides. Is there a way to fix this? Theme has WPbakery page builder as the primary building extension.

I'm really new to Wordpress development and had made a mistake by changing a parent theme for customizations instead of customizing a child theme. Not i cannot use the updates that my theme provider provides. Is there a way to fix this? Theme has WPbakery page builder as the primary building extension.

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• Do you keep a record of the files you've modified on your main theme? – Eduardo Escobar Commented Aug 4, 2019 at 20:29
• unfortunately i did not :( – Randunu Dimeshan Commented Aug 11, 2019 at 7:59

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From my answer to I modified the parent theme without creating a child theme (similar question)

As stated in a comment, any changes you made to the parent theme will get overwritten with the theme update.

But, you could copy all of the parent theme code to a new theme folder, adjust the theme header on the copy to make it a child theme. You could activate the copied theme, or make it a child theme, and then dig out the changes you made to the theme. Put those changes in another theme folder, adjusting it to a new child theme name, then activate that new (2nd) child theme.

All of this is a cautionary tale about the importance of child themes.