Important: You must have the Total Theme Core plugin enabled on your website site in order to access the theme’s demo importer panel.
For some people importing the sample data file can be helpful to see how the theme works as well as speed up the development of their own or their client’s website by simply replacing the content and images with their own.
When To Use a Demo Importer
The following are reasons to why you would want to import a sample demo:
- You are starting with a blank site.
- You want a quick start to creating a new site.
- You like the exact design of a specific demo.
- You want to duplicate the design of a demo and then modify the images and content.
When NOT To Use a Demo Importer
And the following area reasons why you may not want to import a full sample demo:
- You are working with an existing site that already has content.
- You only like a few aspects of the sample demo (consider using the Demo Inspector instead).
- You are using Elementor or Gutenberg (at this time all demos are WPBakery based).
Using The Demo Importer
The Total theme core plugin has a built-in demo importer (based on the WordPress core import/export plugin) which you access via the WordPress dashboard and allows you to import any sample demo with ease. Simply go to Theme Panel > Demo Importer to choose and import the demo of your choice:
No Demos found Error? If you are getting an error and you don’t see any demos, first make sure your theme is up to date. If your theme is up to date, please contact your webhost and make sure that curl is enabled on the server, it allows outgoing connections and it is not blocking the totalwpthemedemo.com URL.
502 Error? If the demo importer doesn’t finish and displays a 502 Error this means that your server is crashing for some reason. You may need to increase your server memory limit, max_execution time or other limitation (you can check the server error logs to see what error was generated). This can be common for demos that include a lot of images, many budget hosting companies like Bluehost/Hostgator have low limitations and so the server is likely timing out while it tries to download all the sample images.
Import Only What You Need
The demo importer allows you to select what you want to import. So for example if you only want to import the Sliders used on a demo you could select to import the slides only or if you want you can import the sample data but not the images which will really speed things up and not bloat up your server.
Deleting Imported Sample Data
Once you have imported a sample demo you can easily delete any imported content with a single click!
Importing Sample Data Video Guide
Below is a video (it’s a bit outdated at this time, but still fairly accurate) showing how you can import one of the theme’s sample demos into your blank site.