How To Import Demo Content

Homey demos are useful if you don’t know how to start. If you’re new to design and develop websites, importing a demo can be the perfect starting point and you can have all the pages and content ready. The easiest way to import one of the available demos is to use the One-Click Import feature.

At the end of the process of importing a demo, you will receive all the pages and posts, some examples of the custom modules for WPBakery Visual Composer, the widgets, and all settings of the Theme Options Panel related to the demo. 

It is recommended to import a demo from a fresh new installation of WordPress.

Before Importing Homey Demos

Before importing one of the demos available with Homey it is advisable to check the following list. All these queues are important and will ensure that the import of a demo ends successfully. In the event that something should go wrong with your import, open a ticket, and contact our Technical Support.

• PHP configuration limits – Please make sure that your hosting meets the requirements to import a demo
• Required Plugins – Install and activate all Homey required plugins
• Other Plugins – Is recommended to disable all other plugins that are not required. Such as plugins to create coming soon pages, plugins to manage the cache, plugin to manage SEO, etc … You will reactivate your personal plugins later as soon as the import process is finished

Requirements for demo importing

To correctly import a demo please make sure that your hosting is running the following features:

• WordPress 4.6+
• PHP 5.6+
• MySQL 5.6+

Recommended PHP configuration limits

• max_execution_time 600
• memory_limit 128M
• post_max_size 48M
• upload_max_filesize 48M

Import demo content steps

Homey comes with the One-Click Import feature so easily start with content in the right way.

1. STEP 1 – Navigate to Appearance > Import Demo Data in your sidebar
2. STEP 2 – Select the demo you want to import by clicking on Import

What if the Import fails or stalls?

If the import stalls and fails to respond after a few minutes because your hosting is suffering from PHP configuration limits. You should contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows:

• max_execution_time 600
• memory_limit 128M
• post_max_size 48M
• upload_max_filesize 48M

You can verify your PHP configuration limits by installing a simple plugin found here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-info/. Please also check your PHP error logs to see the exact error being returned.

I was not able to import the demo

Open a ticket and contact our Technical Support. In order to allow us to fix your import, it’s very important that you share the following information on your ticket and we’ll import a demo for you.

1. Website link
2. WordPress Login
3. cPanel login (Hosting login)
4. The demo you want to import