Import a demo store

A demo store fills your shop with a fictional bookshop so you can see Foliowick working before you add your own books: books with original cover art, genres, reading lists, authors, journal articles, pages and a menu. The four starters also apply their own design: a style variation, header, footer and homepage.

Demo stores are optional and need WooCommerce.

The demo stores

Demo store	Books	Design it applies
Independent bookshop	25 books: fiction, nonfiction and children’s books	None. Keeps your current design
Children’s bookshop	14 books by age band, with read-aloud lists	Storytime style, minimal header, newsletter footer and a children’s homepage
Rare & secondhand	14 single copies with condition, binding, edition and date, and “Sold out” plates on sold copies	Classic Bookshop style, bookplate header, colophon footer and a rare-books homepage
Independent press	14 titles in four series, with author bookplates and forthcoming titles to pre-order	Modern Editorial style, library bar header, colophon footer and a press homepage
Ebooks & audiobooks	14 ebook and audiobook editions, virtual and downloadable, with narrators and format filters	Inkwell style, minimal footer and a digital homepage

Independent bookshop	Children’s bookshop	Rare & secondhand

Independent press	Ebooks & audiobooks

You can see each one live on the Foliowick page.

Every book is fictional. Titles, authors, descriptions and prices are sample content, and each demo book says so on its page. The cover art is original artwork made for Foliowick.

Import a demo store

1. Go to Appearance → Foliowick and find The demo bookshop.
2. Choose a demo store.
3. Tick any options you want:
   • Set the site title and tagline to the demo store’s
   • Use the demo Home page as the front page and The Journal for posts
   • Move my other products to drafts (restorable), so only the demo books show
   • Move WordPress’s “Hello world!” post and Sample Page to the trash
4. Click Import the demo bookshop (Import again once a demo is on the site).

You can import again at any time: books and terms are matched by slug and updated, and nothing of yours is overwritten. A header, footer or homepage you’d already customized in the Site Editor is kept, and the import says so.

Only administrators can import and remove demo content.

Remove demo content

Click Remove demo content and confirm. It deletes every book, article, page, image and term the import created, and nothing else, then puts back the styles, header, footer and homepage you had before.

If you moved your own products to drafts, Republish my products publishes them again.

From the command line

With WP-CLI:

wp foliowick demo import --starter=rare --reading-settings
wp foliowick demo remove
wp foliowick demo restore

--starter takes bookshop (the default), childrens, rare, press or digital. import also takes --site-identity, --reading-settings, --hide-other-products and --remove-sample-content, the same options as the screen. restore republishes products that --hide-other-products moved to drafts.