Exporting
Elementor
Elementor with its own exporter and importer: the site settings (the Kit) and templates on a row of their own, each page's design as a .json file, and on import every image, template and link pointing to the items on the other site.
With Elementor active, Eizport carries what Elementor’s own Import / Export Kit does — in Elementor’s formats, handed to Elementor’s own importer on the other site.
The Elementor row
The Elementor row’s Choose items panel lists:
| Item | What it is | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Site settings | The active Kit: global colors and fonts, layout, theme style (Elementor → Site Settings), without the site’s name, tagline, logo and icon — as Elementor’s Kit export leaves them out | The global colors |
| Each template (Templates → Saved Templates) | A section, a page, a container… in Elementor’s template file format, the one Export template writes | Its type |
They travel in the bundle’s options.json, so they need a bundle (.wxrz, .zip, as plugin or a Playground .zip). Elementor’s library (elementor_library) isn’t offered as a content row: this row carries it.
Pages built with Elementor
Check pages, posts — any type — built with Elementor in their own rows. With Content as .html files on (Settings → Export), each one’s design goes as post_content/<slug>.json, in Elementor’s template file format, instead of its _elementor_data inside the WXR; the .html files stay for content in blocks. With it off, the design stays in the WXR, and is handled the same way on import.
The rows suggest the rest: Elementor shows the site settings and the templates the pages’ template widgets show as suggested, and the images the designs use — image and gallery widgets, backgrounds — come along as media used.
On the other site
When the import ends, the design goes through Elementor’s own import:
- Templates are created as Elementor’s Kit import creates them; a template already imported from the same site is updated instead, so a second delivery doesn’t add copies.
- Site settings go through Elementor’s own site settings import: a new active Kit with the global colors and fonts added to the site’s. A later delivery from the same site updates that Kit, its colors and fonts replaced by their ID instead of added again.
- Each page’s design goes through its document’s import. Images come from the attachments the bundle brought — Elementor finds them by their source URL instead of downloading them again —, template widgets point to the imported templates, and links to the source site to this one.
- Elementor’s generated CSS is cleared, to be built again.
Without Elementor active on the other site, the designs are written to the pages’ meta, with their images and templates mapped, ready for when Elementor is activated.
What it doesn’t
- Elementor Pro (Theme Builder templates and conditions, popups, forms) isn’t covered yet.
- Dynamic tags that point to a post or a term by ID keep that ID.
- A link to a page that isn’t in the file points to the same address on this site.