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Import a demo

SweetDate comes with three Elementor demos: SweetDate (the default dating demo), SweetDate Modern and SweetDate Travel. You import them from the Demo Data tab of the SweetDate Panel. The import installs and activates the plugins the demo needs, adds the pages, menus and theme options, and creates the SweetDate profile fields and member search forms, so your site looks like the live demo.

Before you import

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  • Register SweetDate. Without a registered purchase code you can browse and preview the demos, but not import them.
  • Check the requirements.
  • Activate SweetDate Child first, so the imported settings belong to the theme you keep using.
  • We recommend a new site. Your existing content is kept, but the demo theme options and front page change the look of the site. Back up an existing site first.

Import a demo

Section titled “Import a demo”
  1. Go to Appearance > SweetDate Panel and open the Demo Data tab.
  2. Each card shows the plugins the demo needs (SweetDate Theme Core, Elementor, BuddyPress and BP Profile Search), colored by state (Active, Installed, Update available, Not installed). Click Preview demo to open the live demo.
  3. Click Import on SweetDate, SweetDate Modern or SweetDate Travel.
  4. 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.
    • The demo content: pages, menus, widgets and sidebars, theme options and site settings (front page, blog page).
    • Profile fields and member search forms: adds the SweetDate profile fields (I am a, Looking for a, Birthday, City) and the member search forms used by the demo pages. The Travel demo adds its own travel fields and search form.
  5. Optional: click What will be imported? to see the list of steps.
  6. Click Import demo and keep the page open until you see Your demo is ready.
  7. 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

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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

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  • Replace the demo texts and images with yours: edit the pages with Elementor.
  • Set your logo and colors in the Sweetdate theme options (overview).
  • Finish the BuddyPress, profile tabs and matching settings: Set up SweetDate.

If the import stops, raise the PHP memory and execution time and import again; pages imported before are kept. See Common errors.