Starter Templates – Restore Customizer Backup

While importing a complete site with starter templates, you’ll see a popup offering the option to Maintain previous/old data?

Note: This option appears only if you’ve previously imported a template and are now importing another one.

It maintains all the previously imported data from previous templates, including pages, posts, media, customizer settings, etc.

But, at the same time, the plugin will create a backup only for your existing customizer settings.

Thus, if you access your website files, you’ll find the backup file following this path: /wp-content/uploads/astra-sites/json.

This is automatically done to give you the option to save time applying style, typography, and colors again.

In case you need to restore these customizer settings, just follow the steps below:

Step 1 – Access the root folder of your WordPress site via FTP client (e.g. Filezilla), and follow this path: /wp-content/uploads/astra-sites/.

Your latest backup file will mostly appear on the top. In addition, backup names will contain the date and time when the files were created.

Step 2 – Once you find the backup you need, download the file to your computer. Make sure you download the .JSON file and NOT the Text file.

Step 3 – Log in to your website, install the Import / Export Customizer Settings plugin, and click Activate.

Step 4 – Once you activate the plugin mentioned above, you will find the “Import Settings” in the Astra Settings ‘General’ tab.

Now, import the backup file you downloaded in step 2 to restore your Customizer settings.

You’re done!

Your new site will now have the same Customizer settings you previously used.