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title: "Smart Theme v3 Additional Options – importing & Exporting Smart Theme Options"
description: "Smart Theme v3 Additional Options – importing & Exporting Smart Theme Options"
url: https://docs.optimizepress.com/en/articles/181-smart-theme-v3-additional-options-importing-and-exporting-smart-theme-options
collection: "SmartTheme (Legacy)"
updated: 2026-05-27
language: en
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# Smart Theme v3 Additional Options – importing & Exporting Smart Theme Options

Smart Theme v3 Additional Options – importing & Exporting Smart Theme Options

Copying your settings from one SmartTheme installation to another is quite simple once you know how the process works and can save you a lot of time. In this guide, you will learn how to use the various options to export, and then import SmartTheme settings.

## Exporting

If you’re happy with your current SmartTheme design and would like to save this as a template for later use for a future website, you can do so by doing the following:

**1.** Head to the ‘Import/Export’ area in the SmartTheme settings and under ‘Export Options’ click the ‘Copy Data’ or ‘Download Data File’ button.

**Method #1 - Copy Data**

**1.** After clicking on the ‘Copy Data’ button, a content area with the code will reveal. Click in the area and right-click - copy the contents.

**2.** Next, open a text file on your computer and paste in the contents.

Save the file, giving it a relevant file-name for future use in another website project.

**Method #2 - Download Data File**

**1.** Here, the process is the same, except Wordpress will export a file under the following handle - <name of file>.JSON

**2.** To view the contents of this file, right-click on the downloaded file and open with a text editor.

## Importing

**1.** To import a saved template, navigate and open your saved file.

**2.**  Next, copy the contents to your clipboard by pressing right-click - copy on your mouse.

**3.** Under the ‘Import Options’ section, click the ‘Import from File’ button to reveal an import text box.

Finally, paste in the code by pressing right-click - paste on your mouse. Then click on the ‘Import’ button.

**1.** Save and preview the changes. Your template should now be successfully displayed on your blog.