Most WordPress projects spend the first week fighting the blank canvas. Installing plugins. Wrestling theme settings. Hunting for a color palette that doesn't clash with itself. Pasting filler text you'll only rewrite anyway. By the time the site looks like a site, the deadline is breathing down your neck.<\/p>\n\n
Starter Templates collapses that week into a single click.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Open the wizard. Browse a gallery of finished site designs. Click the one that fits. A live preview opens \u2014 actual interactive pages, not screenshots. Hit Import. A minute later your site looks exactly like the demo, top to bottom: homepage, about, services, contact, blog, the navigation that ties them together, the typography that pulls them into a brand, the plugins each page quietly needs running in the background.<\/p>\n\n You ship today, not next Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n This isn't a content-restore tool. There's nothing to migrate, nothing to recover. Every template is a fresh, opinionated starting point<\/strong> \u2014 pages, menus, widgets and theme settings designed together so the whole site feels coordinated from minute one. The template is scaffolding, not destiny: throw out what you don't need, rewrite every word, swap the palette mid-build. It's your site the moment the import finishes.<\/p>\n\n Whether you're an agency turning out the third site this month or someone launching their first WordPress project ever, the experience is identical: pick \u2192 preview \u2192 import \u2192 edit \u2192 done<\/strong>. No prerequisites. No setup-before-the-setup. The wizard handles the boring parts so you spend your hours on the parts a client actually pays for \u2014 copy, photos, the story you're trying to tell.<\/p>\n\n A starter template isn't wallpaper for an empty site \u2014 it's a complete, opinionated design you adopt and make your own:<\/p>\n\n Every import is a five-step background job \u2014 no babysitting required:<\/p>\n\n The whole thing runs under WP-Cron. Close the tab if you want \u2014 it keeps going. Progress streams back to the dashboard if you stick around to watch.<\/p>\n\n Starter Templates speaks the Blocksify Design Studio<\/a> REST contract. Out of the box it points at the default community library, but the source URL is configurable via the Themes can ship a The plugin only contacts the design library you configure, and only sends the data needed to render the catalog: the active theme stylesheet (so the list can be filtered to compatible templates) and standard HTTP request headers. No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry.<\/p>\n\n\n This plugin is released under a GPL v2 (or later) license.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes \u2014 anything not on the FameThemes legacy list routes to the Generic track, which is fully theme-agnostic. A theme can ship a By default, from a community design library curated by the plugin authors. You can point the plugin at any compatible Blocksify Design Studio<\/a> instance \u2014 a self-hosted server, an agency's private catalog, or a fork \u2014 by setting the The first request fetches the full catalog from the remote Studio (1-3 s depending on your connection). After that, the catalog is cached locally for 10 minutes \u2014 repeat loads are near-instant. Pass Built for builders, friendly to first-timers<\/h4>\n\n
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FT_DEMO_IMPORTER_STUDIO_URL<\/code> constant in wp-config.php<\/code> \u2014 point it at any compatible studio (your agency's private catalog, a self-hosted instance, a fork) and the plugin behaves identically.<\/p>\n\nTheme adapters<\/h4>\n\n
Theme_Adapter<\/code> to declare their own required plugins, customize the wizard's Style step, or embed the dashboard directly under their own admin menu. Customify ships an adapter out of the box; everything else uses a sensible default with no per-theme code required.<\/p>\n\nConfiguration<\/h4>\n\n
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FT_DEMO_IMPORTER_STUDIO_URL<\/code> in wp-config.php<\/code>, or the Settings page.<\/li>\n?no_cache=1<\/code> to the templates REST URL to skip the local 10-minute cache after a library update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nPrivacy<\/h4>\n\n
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famethemes-demo-importer<\/code> folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory, or install via Plugins \u2192 Add New.<\/li>\n\n
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What is the plugin license?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with any theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Theme_Adapter<\/code> to customize the wizard, but it isn't required.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhere do the templates come from?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
FT_DEMO_IMPORTER_STUDIO_URL<\/code> constant in wp-config.php<\/code>.<\/p><\/dd>\nMy import looks slow on the first page load.<\/h3><\/dt>\n
?no_cache=1<\/code> on the REST URL or call studio wp transient delete --all<\/code> to force-refresh.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I contribute?<\/h3><\/dt>\n