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Setup wizard

The setup wizard is the fastest way from a fresh install to a complete, editable website. It does three things in order, and you can stop after any of them. Screenshot: Appearance → Vara SaaS Setup showing the three wizard steps

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Getting there

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Go to Appearance → Vara SaaS Setup

This page appears in your admin menu once the theme is active.
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Or use the activation banner

Right after activating the theme, a banner appears on the Dashboard offering the same flow. You can dismiss the banner and come back later — dismissing it does not cancel the wizard.

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The three steps

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Step 1 — Install Elementor

The wizard checks whether Elementor is installed and active. If it is, this step is already complete and is marked done. If not, you get two options:
  • Install and activate — the wizard installs Elementor from the WordPress.org repository and activates it for you
  • I have it already — use this if Elementor is installed but deactivated, or if your host restricts automatic installs
The install runs through WordPress’s standard plugin upgrader. It requires the install_plugins capability, and the request is protected with a nonce. On locked-down hosts the automatic install can fail — see Setup wizard issues.
Screenshot: wizard step 1 showing Elementor install and activate buttons

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Step 2 — Import the demo content

This creates four finished pages and wires them into WordPress: Alongside the pages, the import:
  • Sets Settings → Reading → Your homepage displays to A static page
  • Sets the Home page as the front page and the Blog page as the posts page
  • Writes the Elementor layout JSON for each page
  • Clears Elementor’s cached assets so the new layouts render immediately
  • Creates a Primary Menu if one doesn’t exist, points it at those pages, and assigns it to the Primary Menu location
The import changes your front page and your navigation. If you already have a site, it repoints Your homepage displays to a static page and replaces the primary menu. Back up first, and read Demo content before running it on a live site.
Screenshot: wizard step 2 showing the import demo content button and progress

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Step 3 — Done

The final step links you straight into Elementor to start editing the homepage. There’s nothing to configure here — it exists so you know the wizard finished successfully.

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Managing the created pages afterwards

The theme tracks every page it creates, so it can clean up after itself and avoid duplicates. Each managed page is recorded in two ways:
  • A dedicated option, such as vara_saas_home_page_id
  • Post meta _vara_saas_theme_page holding the page’s role (home, blog, about, services, contact) and _vara_saas_theme_page_origin marking it as theme-created
Those markers mean:

Renaming is safe

Change a managed page’s title or slug freely. The theme finds it by its stored ID and meta, not by slug.

Deleting is handled

If you trash or delete a managed page, the theme clears its stored ID and resets Your homepage displays back to “Your latest posts” if the deleted page was the front page.

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Re-running the import

You can run the import again at any time from Appearance → Vara SaaS Setup. The theme will not create duplicates. It reuses the existing pages it already manages and overwrites their Elementor layouts.
Re-running the import overwrites the Elementor content of Home, About, Services, and Contact. Any design work you’ve done on those four pages is lost. Back up, or copy your work into an Elementor template first. See Demo pages.

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Running the wizard manually instead

If your host blocks the automatic Elementor install, do it by hand:
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Install Elementor

Plugins → Add New → Search “Elementor” → Install Now → Activate
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Return to the wizard

Reload Appearance → Vara SaaS Setup. Step 1 now shows as complete.
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Run step 2

Click Import demo content.

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After the wizard

Brand it

Set your colors so the whole site — including Elementor — follows your brand.

Set your identity

Logo, site title, tagline, and favicon.

Build your menu

Replace the demo menu items with your own.