Installing Demo Content
This page covers the process of importing demo content to your site. This is completely optional and should ideally be done on a fresh WordPress install.
🖱️ One-Click Demo Import
If you've followed along with the previous chapter on how to install plugins, you should have One Click Demo Import already installed and activated. This is the plugin that will allow you to quickly and seamlessly import everything you see on the demo site.
To get started, navigate to Appearance > Import Demo Data from your WordPress dashboard, then click on the "Import Demo Data" button at the bottom. This will take you to the following screen...
Note: If you don't see the Import Demo Data item in the Appearance menu, try refreshing your page first!
From here, you can choose to install additional plugins if you wish, but this is completely optional. Click on "Continue & Import" to get started, and you'll see the following screen...
The import process shouldn't take long, but this depends mainly on your web host and server environment. Please allow at least a few minutes for the process to complete. Once it is, you should see the following screen...
Click on "Visit Site" to take a look and confirm that everything is as it should be, or click on "Theme Settings" to load up the customizer and start customizing your site!
Troubleshooting Tip: If you get any errors relating to timeouts or "Failed to import..." messages, your server's PHP limits will need to be increased. Please see the chapter about Minimum Requirements for details on how to address this.
⛓️ Updating Menus and Links
One important thing to remember after importing demo content is that some of your navigation menu items and various links throughout the site may contain URLs that link directly to the demo site, especially custom links. Go to Appearance > Menus and update these links so that they point at your domain.
The main URLs you need to update in your menus are the ones named "Custom Link". These are hard-coded links. Anything else, such as a "Post" or "Page", don't need to be changed. Also, don't forget to update the URLs in other elements, such as customizer settings and post meta boxes.
📝 Updating Widgets
Aubrey uses the traditional method of adding widgets to sidebars, not the new "Blocks" method. This is because the theme comes with custom widgets (detailed in the Custom Widgets chapter) that use settings not yet supported by the block editor.
Navigate to Appearance > Widgets from your WordPress dashboard, and remove or edit any widgets in each of your sidebars. The ones named "Block" can be removed if they were added automatically when you first installed WordPress.
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