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Bring in a WordPress, Shopify or HTML theme, and take your design out

Bring in a WordPress, Shopify or HTML theme, and take your design outUniSoftCo

The Template Designer now makes a design from a WordPress or Shopify theme, an HTML template or a live site's address, and downloads any design as a WordPress, Shopify or HTML theme.

A look you already have somewhere else no longer has to be redrawn by hand. And a design made here can leave as a theme for another platform.

Four ways in

In Templates → Template Designer, the button From WordPress, Shopify or HTML makes a new design from any of these:

  • the zip file of a WordPress block theme;
  • the zip file of a Shopify theme;
  • the zip file of an HTML template. When it has several pages, each is shown as it is drawn, and you choose the one your design should look like;
  • the address of a public site that wears the theme, for a classic WordPress theme or when you do not have the theme's file.

What comes in

The theme's colours, type, headings, links, buttons, widths and spacing become the design's own settings. Its header and footer become drawn bands that you can change in the builder, and its logo comes with them. Nothing is added as code.

After the import, a list shows each value that has no tool yet, and why. A design read from a site's address is close to that site rather than exact. Posts, pages and products are not part of a theme, so they stay where they are.

The rights come first

A theme may carry rights that belong to someone else. Before the file or the site is read, you confirm that those rights are yours to answer for, and the words you confirmed are kept with the design. An imported design stays on your site and cannot be put in the store.

And the way out

A design's Move this design panel, under As a WordPress, Shopify or HTML template, has three buttons: WordPress theme, Shopify theme and HTML template. Each downloads the design with its colours, type, links, headings and buttons, and its header and footer, written in that platform's own blocks.

Your content and the platform's own parts, such as the basket or the search, stay here, and the list beside the buttons says so. Designs on the default template can be downloaded this way. A design bought from the store cannot.