# Import a demo

Source: https://seventhqueen.com/docs/buddyapp/import-demo-content/

BuddyApp comes with three Elementor demos, **Dashboard / Intranet**, **Shop** and **Creative**, and the **Classic demo (WPBakery)** for sites built with WPBakery Page Builder. You import them from the **Demo Data** tab of the BuddyApp Panel. The import installs and activates the plugins the demo needs and adds the pages, menus and settings, so your site looks like the [live demo](https://buddyapp.seventhqueen.com/).

## Before you import

- [Register BuddyApp](https://seventhqueen.com/docs/buddyapp/register-your-theme/). Without a registered purchase code you can browse and preview the demos, but not import them.
- Check the [requirements](https://seventhqueen.com/docs/buddyapp/theme-requirements/).
- Activate **BuddyApp Child** first, so the imported settings belong to the theme you keep using.
- Your existing content is kept, but the demo settings change the look of the site. Back up an existing site first.

## Import a demo

1. Go to **Appearance > BuddyApp Panel** and open the **Demo Data** tab.
2. Choose **Elementor** or **Classic** at the top.
3. Each card shows the plugins the demo needs, colored by state (**Active**, **Installed**, **Update available**, **Not installed**). Click **Preview demo** to open the live demo.
4. Click **Import** on the demo you want.
5. Under **What to import**, leave everything checked to get the demo as shown, or uncheck the parts you do not want:
   - **Install and activate the required plugins**: BuddyApp Core plus the demo's plugins. Dashboard / Intranet: Elementor, BuddyPress, bbPress, Events Manager and Easy Knowledge Base. Shop: Elementor and WooCommerce. Creative: Elementor and Contact Form 7. Classic: WPBakery Page Builder, BuddyPress and bbPress.
   - The demo content: pages, posts, menus, widgets and sidebars, theme options and site settings (front page, blog page).
6. Optional: click **What will be imported?** to see the list of steps.
7. Click **Import demo** and keep the page open until you see **Your demo is ready**.
8. Use **View site** or **Customize**, or open one of the **Imported pages**. **Set as front page** makes any imported page your home page.

## Import again or another demo

Importing the same demo again keeps the pages and posts imported before and does not add the same widgets twice. Importing another demo adds its pages next to yours; only the parts you check are imported.

## After the import

- Replace the demo texts and images with yours: edit the pages with Elementor (or WPBakery for the classic demo).
- Adjust the look on the **Theme Options** tab of the BuddyApp Panel ([overview](https://seventhqueen.com/docs/buddyapp/theme-options-overview/)) and the [menus](https://seventhqueen.com/docs/buddyapp/menu-customization/).

If the import stops, raise the PHP memory and execution time and import again; pages imported before are kept. See [Common errors](https://seventhqueen.com/docs/common/common-errors/#the-demo-import-stops-or-never-finishes).