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Import a demo

KLEO comes with more than 20 ready-made demos: community sites, business, shop, magazine, education, directory and portfolio layouts. A demo import adds the demo pages, menus, widgets and theme options, and installs the plugins the demo needs, so your site looks like the live demo in a few minutes.

Before you import

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  • Register KLEO. Without a registered purchase code you can browse and preview the demos, but not import them.
  • Check the requirements: 256M memory and 180 seconds execution time for the larger demos.
  • Import on a new site or a staging copy if you can. Your existing content is kept, but the demo theme options, widgets and front page change the look of the site. Back up an existing site first.
  • Activate the KLEO child theme before importing (Plugins tab > Install & activate child theme), so the imported settings belong to the theme you keep using.

Import a demo

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  1. Go to Appearance > KLEO Panel and open the Demo Data tab.
  2. Choose the page builder at the top: Elementor or WPBakery. Elementor demos are the newest ones; WPBakery demos are the classic KLEO designs.
  3. Each card shows the demo, its category and the plugins it 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: installs and activates the plugins on the card first.
    • Pages, Content (posts, products, events, …) and Menus (WPBakery demos: Pages, posts, menus and media, plus extra sets such as Sample posts or Portfolio posts when the demo has them).
    • Widgets and sidebars and Theme options (colors, fonts, layout; your logo is kept).
    • Site settings (front page, blog page, shop image sizes).
    • Slider Revolution sliders, for demos that use a slider.
    • KLEO extras where they apply: Sample profile fields and member search form, and for WPBakery demos Download the demo images to the media library.
    • Sample community (members, groups, activity), for the AI Collective demo (unchecked by default, see below).
  6. Optional: click What will be imported? to see the list of steps before you start.
  7. Click Import demo and keep the page open until you see Your demo is ready. The import runs one step at a time; large demos take a few minutes.
  8. Use View site, Customize or Edit with Elementor, or open one of the Imported pages. Set as front page makes any imported page your home page.

The Import log at the end lists what was added or skipped.

Sample community (AI Collective)

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Community demos look empty on a new site because there are no members yet. The AI Collective demo can add a sample community: members with profiles, groups, friendships, activity posts, forum topics, upcoming events and membership levels. Each part is added only when its plugin is active (BuddyPress, bbPress, Events Manager, Paid Memberships Pro), and the BuddyPress components it needs are turned on for you.

Use it to see how the site works and to design your pages. Before launch, open the Demo Data tab and click Remove sample data in the notice at the top. It deletes only what the sample import created, not your own content.

Import again or another demo

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  • Importing the same demo again keeps the pages and posts imported before (the log says “was imported before: kept as it is”) and does not add the same widgets twice.
  • Importing another demo adds its pages next to the ones you have. Only the parts you check are imported.

After the import

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  • Edit the pages with Elementor or WPBakery. Text, images and links in the demo pages are placeholders; replace them with yours.
  • Set your logo on the Theme Options tab of the KLEO Panel, under General settings (Header and menus).
  • Check Appearance > Menus. Custom links may still point to the demo site.

Import problems

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  • Import stops or shows an error: raise memory and execution time, then import again; pages imported before are kept. See Common errors.
  • A demo shows “Coming soon”: its files are not published yet. Check again later.
  • Images missing: the import downloads images from our CDN. If your server blocks outgoing requests, ask your host to allow cdn.seventhqueen.com.