How to Import A Complete Site With Starter Templates?

Starter Templates allows you to import ready and beautifully built demos to your website. Most importantly, when you import a complete site, your whole website is ready in a few minutes.

You get ready-made designs, dummy content, images, and styles you can customize and personalize.

In this article, we’ll show you how to import a complete site with Starter Templates directly from your WordPress Dashboard. We will cover both the Free and Premium Templates. 

Starter Templates Walkthrough Docs

1. Getting Started With Starter Templates
2. Starter Templates Importing
3. How to Import A Complete Site With Starter Templates? (currently reading)
4. How to Import Single Page With Starter Templates?
5. Importing Gutenberg Pages, Patterns, and Wireframes
6. Starter Templates – Elementor Popup
7. How to Fix Starter Template Importing Issues
8. Building Your Website With Starter Templates
9. Starter Templates FAQs

Importing Free Templates

The first step to importing the free templates is to install the Starter Templates plugin. The plugin provides two sets of templates, free and Premium. You can learn how to install the free plugin here.

Once you install and activate the plugin, you can import Starter Templates.

Previewing Templates

Normally, this section should show up automatically after activating the Starter Templates plugin. But if it doesn’t follow these steps:

Step 1: Navigate to Appearance > Starter Templates.

You can select your preferred page builder: Elementor, Block Editor, Beaver Builder, or AI Website Builder.

If you want to see our classic templates, click the “Build with Templates” button. This will open the website templates library and styling options.

Step 2: You can browse the Library to see the templates available for your selected page builder.

Once you find the template you like, click on it to preview your template. You will go through several pages with styling settings like logo, colors, and typography. 

On each step, you can preview the entire template using the live preview on the right side. Just click on any page in the menu like you would on the live website.

Starter Templates Styling Options

Step 3: Firstly, you can add your logo to see how it would look with the selected template:

• Click on the “Click to Upload” button;
• Upload the logo file or add it from the Media Library;
• Set the logo width.

Here, you can also try different logo variations to find which one fits the best.

You need not worry if you don’t have your logo ready. Just click on the “Skip & Continue” button below. This will add a default logo from the template, which you can change later;

Step 4: Next, you can select one of the premade global color palettes. Selecting any premade color palette will change colors in the template preview accordingly. Also, you can leave the default color palette. Once you decide on the color palette to use, select it and click “Continue”.

Step 5: Finally, you can select one of the available typography presets and try different text styles. Text in the template preview will change its style accordingly. 

Click the “Continue” button to proceed to template import. Skipping this step will apply the default typography to your import;

Importing A Complete Site Template

Step 6: On the next screen, you can add features that you’d like to import with your website. For example, selecting “Video Player” will add the Presto Player plugin and all its features already set up on your site.

Step 7: After you go through the template preview and settings, you will come to the importing page. Here, you will have several “Advanced Options”.

• Maintain previous/old data: This is for users who already imported a template before. If you enable this option your old data and content will be maintained.

Click on “Submit & Build My Website” to initiate the import process. Don’t close the window until the template import process is finished.

Step 8: Once the import process is completed, you can view your website by clicking the “View Your Site” button.

The “Visit Dashboard” button will redirect you back to your WordPress dashboard.

Importing Premium Templates

Premium Templates are available only with Essential or Business Toolkits. You can set them apart in the templates library by the Premium tag in the upper right corner.

To import Premium site templates, you need to install the Premium Starter Templates plugin.

Once the Premium Starter Templates license is activated, you can import the Premium templates. Please follow the same above-mentioned steps for importing free templates.

Recommendation:

Though not required, we recommend you import a site template on a clean WordPress installation. Also, you can reset your current WordPress installation to start fresh with the brand-new site. Here’s a quick guide to help you do that.

Build Complete Websites With AI

Click on the “Build With AI” option on the first step to build a complete site with AI.

Our AI will let you create a custom complete website outside of the classic Starter Templates. To learn more about these features, click here.

The “Unlock Access” Page – Importing Premium Template

Did you try to import a premium template and get to the “Unlock Access” page following the styling options? This means that something is missing in your setup.

Firstly, as you know, these templates require a Premium Starter Templates plugin to be installed and activated.

Secondly, to import Premium templates, you also need to activate your Premium Starter Templates license. Thus, if you haven’t done this, you will see the “Unlock Access” page though your plugin is installed and activated.

Hence, this is what you can do to activate your Premium Starter Templates plugin license:

Step 1: On the “Unlock Access” page you will see the “License Key” field;

Step 2: Next, visit the Brainstorm Force Store to get your license key. Here, you can copy the license key from the Licenses page and paste it into the “License Key” field;

Step 3: Click the “arrow” button, and continue with the template importing process from the previous step.

That’s all! If you have any more doubts, please feel free to contact our support. We’re always here to help.