How do I import / export content between websites?

Hi, this is Sandra from GREYD. Today I’m going to show you the amazing possibilities you’ll have when working with the import and export feature of GREYD.SUITE. GREYD.SUITE enables you to export any content, like pages, post types, forms, pop-ups or templates and import it to another site. The big advantage lies in a complete separation of content and design which saves you a lot of time.

Let’s start with an export of an entire page. Next to the standard WordPress functions you’ll find the option “export” in the overview and will then be asked whether you’d like to export the page including its nested content. In most cases that makes absolutely sense since otherwise nested forms, templates or images would not be part of the download. You will also be asked whether you want to resolve or keep your menus.

And that’s it already. I will now open GREYD.Hub and go to one of my other sites within my multisite network. Here I will then import the zip file we’ve just exported with the respective button.

The system automatically notices when you try to import content that already seems to exist on your target website. You can then decide individually what to do with it: skip, overwrite or keep both versions.

And that’s it already. In the front end you can now see the big advantage of the separation of content and design in GREYD.SUITE. To remind you: it only took me a couple of clicks to import the entire page including all its content, but the design is completely different: colors, fonts, the header looks completely different than the source page.

The same goes for links. Here for example I have a button that originally led to the privacy information of my source website and now it automatically leads to the privacy information of the target website. That means, you only ever have to deal with links in menus or buttons when the source website contains links to pages that do not exist on your new website.

And like that, you can now export and import nearly everything in GREYD.SUITE, for example also forms and pop-ups. Thereby you not only transfer the fields in your form or pop-up, but also all corresponding settings like follow-up actions or when, where and how a pop-up appears. So now I’m going to export several forms at the same time and import them to my other website.

Here I can now use and adapt the form as I like, while the design automatically adapts and all field settings and placeholders are exactly like I built them on my source website. For agencies or web designers, this is a great time saving feature. Imagine for example having such a template website in which you collect all your templates for forms, layouts, pop-ups, etc. and each time you get a website job, you just export the elements you need, import them to your target customer stage, edit design and content and that’s it.

For example here I have a template website with a lot of different header templates, so I just need to select which one I want to export to use it on my customer stage. And before we finish now, let’s take a final look at post types — also an extremely powerful feature in GREYD.SUITE. Here I’ve got a dynamic post type “testimonials” including 3 testimonial posts.

I can now either export only the post type itself. In that case the post type will be empty on my target website, so I can create individual testimonial posts there while having all fields, taxonomies, categories, etc. ready. Or I can export the post type including all its posts to the new website.

So again I do the import here.

And as you can see, I have my post type here and also in the menu and it also includes all 3 ready post types. So to sum up, the import and export feature in GREYD.SUITE offers you a ton of very handy possibilities to transfer content from one website to another.

And last but not least, under appearance and theme assets you can also import and export your site templates, template parts, patterns, navigation, menus and global styles. You can find them here to export and use the button here to import.

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