{"id":14,"date":"2026-03-29T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/2026\/03\/29\/demo-importer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:49:09","slug":"demo-importer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/2026\/03\/29\/demo-importer\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Click Demo Importer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Demo Importer is the fastest way to take a fresh Legal install to a complete, populated, ready-to-edit firm site. One click. About thirty seconds. The result is the same Lex &amp; Co. demo you see at <em>demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Once imported, you replace Lex &amp; Co.&#8217;s placeholder content with your firm&#8217;s actual content \u2014 names, practice areas, biographies, testimony \u2014 and you have a working site.<\/p>\n<h2>What gets imported<\/h2>\n<p>Three pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firm Home<\/strong> \u2014 uses <code>template-firm.php<\/code>, set as the static front page<\/li>\n<li><strong>Journal<\/strong> \u2014 set as the posts page<\/li>\n<li><strong>Credits<\/strong> \u2014 a placeholder credits\/colophon page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five blog posts (the ledger entries shown in the demo), each with a featured image:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>L.K. Pharma \u00b7 Shareholder Deadlock<\/li>\n<li>Sea-View Co-op Society \u00b7 Developer Dispute<\/li>\n<li>Founder Departure \u00b7 SaaS Co.<\/li>\n<li>Mid-Market MSA \u00b7 Vendor Dispute<\/li>\n<li>Restrictive Covenant \u00b7 Tribunal Decision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three menus, one per location:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Primary<\/strong> \u2014 Practice \/ Counsel \/ Ledger \/ Journal \/ Engage (5 items)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile bottom-bar<\/strong> \u2014 Home \/ Practice \/ Counsel \/ Engage (4 items)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Footer<\/strong> \u2014 Privileged communications \/ Journal \/ Credits \/ Contact (4 items)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 110 customizer values:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Site identity (Lex &amp; Co. as the title, &#8220;Counsel for matters of consequence&#8221; as tagline)<\/li>\n<li>Hero (heading, italic accent, sub-paragraph, CTAs, pull-quote, four stats)<\/li>\n<li>Folio strip (Chambers \u00b7 Bombay &amp; Delhi \u00b7 Est. 2014 \u00b7 MMXXVI)<\/li>\n<li>Marquee (six publication credentials)<\/li>\n<li>Six practice tiles, each fully written<\/li>\n<li>Four counsel cards with names, roles, and biographies<\/li>\n<li>Ledger configuration<\/li>\n<li>Testimony quote with citation and meta<\/li>\n<li>Engage section with three pillars and the full retainer card<\/li>\n<li>Footer copyright text<\/li>\n<li>Two social URLs (LinkedIn, Twitter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Running the importer<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure Legal theme is active and Legal Pro license is active.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Legal Pro \u2192 Demo Content<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Import demo content \u2192<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Wait. The importer takes about 30 seconds \u2014 most of that time is downloading the five featured images from <em>picsum.photos<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll be redirected back to the Customizer with a success notice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Visit your site&#8217;s home URL. You should see the full Lex &amp; Co. demo.<\/p>\n<h2>Idempotency \u2014 safe to run more than once<\/h2>\n<p>The importer is built to be re-runnable. Each step checks whether content already exists before creating it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pages \u2014 checked by slug (<code>firm-home<\/code>, <code>journal<\/code>, <code>credits<\/code>). If a page with that slug exists, it&#8217;s left alone.<\/li>\n<li>Posts \u2014 checked by slug. Existing posts are skipped.<\/li>\n<li>Featured images \u2014 only fetched for posts that don&#8217;t already have a thumbnail.<\/li>\n<li>Customizer values \u2014 always set (overwriting any existing value at that key).<\/li>\n<li>Menus \u2014 checked by slug. Menus with items are not refilled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if you&#8217;ve already imported the demo and edited a counsel name, then re-run the importer, your edited name is overwritten by Lex &amp; Co.&#8217;s default. Be aware of this if you&#8217;ve started customizing.<\/p>\n<h2>Recommended workflow<\/h2>\n<p>Most users do this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install Legal theme on a fresh site.<\/li>\n<li>Install Legal Pro and activate the license.<\/li>\n<li>Run the demo importer to populate everything.<\/li>\n<li>View the site to confirm it looks right.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Customizer and replace each section&#8217;s content with the firm&#8217;s real data \u2014 counsel names, practice areas, testimony, etc. The structure stays intact; you&#8217;re swapping copy.<\/li>\n<li>Replace the five ledger posts with the firm&#8217;s actual recent matters.<\/li>\n<li>Update the menus, footer copyright, and social URLs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The whole content-replacement pass takes about an hour for an experienced editor. The result is a fully-branded site that took two hours total from blank install.<\/p>\n<h2>Restoring after a re-import<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve made changes and want to wipe them to re-run the demo cleanly:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Delete the existing pages: <strong>Pages \u2192 All Pages<\/strong>, send Firm Home \/ Journal \/ Credits to trash, then empty trash.<\/li>\n<li>Delete the existing posts: <strong>Posts \u2192 All Posts<\/strong>, do the same.<\/li>\n<li>Delete or empty the three menus: <strong>Appearance \u2192 Menus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Now re-run the importer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Customizer values will be overwritten regardless, so no separate reset is needed for those.<\/p>\n<h2>Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Featured images didn&#8217;t import.<\/strong> The importer downloads from <em>picsum.photos<\/em>. If your server can&#8217;t reach external HTTPS, the images will be skipped silently \u2014 posts will still be created but without thumbnails. Check your server&#8217;s outbound connectivity, or upload images manually after.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Import demo content&#8221; button is greyed out \/ missing.<\/strong> Make sure your Legal Pro license shows as <em>Active<\/em> under <strong>Appearance \u2192 Legal Pro License<\/strong>. The button only appears for active licenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Import succeeded but the home page shows a blog.<\/strong> The importer sets your front page to &#8220;Firm Home&#8221;, but in rare cases this gets overwritten. Go to <strong>Settings \u2192 Reading<\/strong>, set &#8220;Your homepage displays&#8221; to &#8220;A static page&#8221;, and select the Firm Home page manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One click recreates the Lex &#038; Co. demo on your site \u2014 three pages, five posts, three menus, and 110 customizer settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,27,26,12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-features","tag-demo","tag-importer","tag-lex-co","tag-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}