Removing demo content

Remove the imported pages, menu items, and reading settings safely.

Removing demo content

If you imported the demo and would rather start clean than edit placeholder marketing copy, this is the safe way to remove it.

Back up first. Removing demo pages deletes content. If you have edited any of the imported pages, read the warning in Demo content before continuing.

What “removing demo content” involves

There is no single “remove demo” button. The theme creates several things and you remove them in the right order so nothing is left broken.

Thing	Where	Action
Home, About, Services, Contact pages	Pages	Delete or repurpose
Blog page	Pages	Keep — you need it
Primary menu items	Appearance → Menus	Edit
Front page and posts page settings	Settings → Reading	Reset or reassign
Elementor data	On each page	Deleted with the page

Removing the pages safely

1. Decide what you actually want

   Deleting Home and replacing it with your own front page is fine. Deleting the Contact page means your header’s secondary CTA button and the footer CTA link may point nowhere.

2. Fix your reading settings first

   Go to Settings → Reading. If you delete the front page while it is still set as the front page, WordPress may serve a confusing error until you change it.

3. Delete the pages

   Pages → All Pages, hover each page, and choose Trash. Using the trash rather than permanent delete gives you a safety net.

4. Repair the menu

   Appearance → Menus → open your Primary Menu → remove items pointing at the deleted pages → Save Menu.

5. Check your CTA buttons

   Customize → Vara SaaS → Layout → update the primary and secondary CTA URLs so neither points at a deleted page.

6. Empty the trash

   Once you are satisfied, Pages → Trash → Empty Trash.

What the theme does automatically

Page reference cleanup

Deleting a theme-created page clears the theme’s stored page ID for it, so the theme will not later try to apply an Elementor layout to a page that no longer exists.

Front page reset

If the deleted page was your static front page, show_on_front is reset to “Your latest posts” so the site keeps working rather than serving a missing page at the root URL.

Legacy slug cleanup

If the theme finds leftovers from an older version using a vara- slug prefix that it can confirm it created, it removes them. It requires both the theme’s own origin meta and the slug prefix to match, so pages you made yourself are never touched.

Pages you created yourself are never removed. The theme only auto-deletes a page when both its own metadata and a vara- slug prefix match. Anything you wrote is yours to keep.

Starting over completely

If you want a truly clean slate — including the theme’s own page tracking.

1. Remove the Elementor layouts

   Delete or trash the four pages. The Elementor data goes with them.

2. Reset your reading settings

   Settings → Reading → Your homepage displays → Your latest posts → Save Changes.

3. Rebuild the menu

   Appearance → Menus → create a fresh menu with only your real pages → assign it to Primary Menu.

4. Clear the theme's page references

   If you installed via WP-CLI, remove the tracking options directly.

# Optional, via WP-CLI — only if you want to clear the theme's stored page IDs
wp option delete vara_saas_home_page_id
wp option delete vara_saas_about_page_id
wp option delete vara_saas_services_page_id
wp option delete vara_saas_contact_page_id
wp option delete vara_saas_blog_page_id

You rarely need to delete those options. The theme validates each stored ID against the database on use and ignores it if the page no longer exists. Only remove them if you are specifically troubleshooting stale references.

Re-running the import later

If you remove the demo and change your mind, run the import again from Appearance → Vara SaaS Setup.

The theme will recreate the pages rather than duplicating them, because it checks for existing managed pages before creating new ones.

This will also reset your reading settings and refresh your primary menu items to match the demo set. If you have built a real menu, back it up first or recreate it afterwards.

Related

Demo content

What the import creates and changes.

Launch checklist

If you kept the demo, use this to finish the job.