## What to check after a demo import
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/knowledge-base/setup-guide/after-a-demo-import
Updated: 2026-09-06
Summary: Check the result of a demo import, fix 404s by re-saving permalinks, regenerate thumbnails, and replace demo content before launch.
The importer finishes the main work by itself. This page is the review pass, plus the repairs for the handful of things a server, a cache or a third party plugin can leave half done.
## Look at the result first
Walk the site before changing anything:
- [ ] The front page renders the way the demo did
- [ ] Menus appear in the right places
- [ ] Widgets and sidebars are populated
- [ ] Images load throughout the media library
- [ ] The theme settings included in your import took effect
If all of that is right, skip to the last section and start replacing the demo content with yours.
## Pages return 404
The most common thing to hit, and the quickest to fix.
Open [[Settings > Permalinks]] and press save without changing anything. That rewrites the rules WordPress uses to resolve URLs, which is all the imported pages were waiting for.
## Images are the wrong size
Regenerate the thumbnails, with any of the plugins built for it.
**This is a repair, not a routine step.**
Most imports never need it, so run it when images are visibly wrong rather than as part of the checklist.
Why your images look blurry, cropped, or wrong
## The layout looks stale
Two caches are usually behind this.
If your pages were built with Elementor, regenerate its CSS and data files and clear its cache from the Elementor tools screen.
For the theme settings, opening the relevant settings page and saving it again is enough to rewrite the generated styles.
And clear any page cache or CDN cache before concluding anything is wrong. A cached copy of the pre-import site explains a surprising number of reports.
## Replace the demo content
The last step, and the one that decides whether your site looks like your site.
**A live site with a demo phone number is a worse outcome than one with unfinished styling.**
Demo text, images, contact details and links are all placeholders, and the contact details and links are the ones that cost you something real, so go through them before the site is public.
## Common questions
Can I delete the demo posts I do not need?
Yes, they are ordinary posts and deleting them affects neither the theme nor its settings.
Some images did not import
The media download most likely hit a timeout, so run the import again with only the media type selected, because the importer skips what it already has and fetches the rest.
The homepage is not the one from the demo
Check [[Settings > Reading]], since the front page assignment travels with the theme settings and was not imported if that data type was left out.
Do I need to keep the demo pages I am not using?
No, though it is worth looking at them before deleting, because they are the fastest way to see what the theme's layouts can actually do.
Something is still wrong after all of this
Note whether the problem is content, layout or settings, because the three lead to different places: missing content means the import did not finish and should be run again, a broken layout is usually a cache or a missing integration, and missing settings means that data type was never selected.