Free plugin
Your old pages, finally editable
Enfold, one of the most used WordPress themes, saves each page as a long list of codes in square brackets; Elementor keeps the real page in a hidden field. Move the site and you get a wall of codes, or a bare page. Layout Import turns them back into a real page: sections, columns, texts, images and buttons.
No page builder needed: the result is made of the editor’s own blocks.
Leave Enfold behind
From [av_section] to blocks
If your site was made with Enfold and its layout builder, and you see codes like [av_one_half] or [av_textblock], this plugin is for you.
Sections and columns
Full-width colored sections, rows of two, three or four columns with their widths: the shape of the page stays.
Texts and headings
Paragraphs, headings with their size, color and alignment, lists, quotes, tables and code.
Images and galleries
Pictures are found in your media library by their file name, with captions, links and alignment. Galleries and slideshows become galleries.
Buttons and boxes
Buttons with their colors and links, icon boxes, notices, team members and testimonials keep all their words.
Elementor too
Elementor pages in the export, or already imported as Fresco pages, become blocks too: sections, columns, headings, images, buttons, galleries; tabs become headings.
Nothing lost in silence
What has no block, like maps, forms or lists of posts, is listed page by page, so you know what to add again by hand.
Undo at any time
Each converted page gets a new revision: the old version stays in Revisions, one click away.
Tools → Layout import
From shortcodes to blocks
Upload the export of the old site, or let it read the pages already imported: sections, columns, headings, images, galleries, buttons and tabs become blocks you can edit.
Two ways
With the export, or without
Give it the export file of the old WordPress site and every page finds its twin on Cleitext by its address. Already imported your site and the codes stayed as text? It finds those pages by itself.
- The export is read in your browser, it is not uploaded
- Links to old pages and categories become links of the new site
- One page at a time, or all together
- Published pages stay as they are until you publish them again
Get started
Ready in a few minutes
Install it
In Plugins → Add New, find Layout Import, then click Install and Activate.
Open Tools → Layout import
Load the export of the old site, or look for the pages of this site that still show the codes.
Convert, check, publish
Read the list of what could not be kept, convert, open the page and publish it.
Questions
Which sites is it for?
For WordPress sites made with Enfold, whose layout builder saves pages as codes starting with [av_, and for sites made with Elementor. Want to keep editing Elementor pages visually instead? Fresco, our free page builder, imports them as they are.
Will the page look exactly the same?
Its content and shape come along; animations, icons and some special effects do not. If you want the old look in full, the Vitality theme has its own builder that imports these pages with all their details.
Do I need the export file?
It helps: with it, links to old pages and galleries are resolved too. Without it, the plugin converts the pages that still show the codes and finds images by file name.
Goes well with
Plugins that work well together
WordPress Importer
Moves a WordPress site in from the admin: posts, pages, media, categories, tags, menus and authors, with redirects from the old addresses and a report.
Prisma
Design blocks with a live preview in the editor: containers with backgrounds and shape dividers, headings, images with masks, info boxes, buttons and image galleries with a lightbox, responsive and animated. Converts Spectra blocks when importing from WordPress.
Fresco
A visual page builder, free: drag sections and widgets onto the page and style them per device, with site colors and fonts, templates and an atomic mode with classes and variables. Pages stay normal Cleitext entries.
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Community
Cleitext grows with you
Found a problem, or missing a feature? Tell us on GitHub: every report is read and taken care of. And if you like Cleitext, leave a star: it helps others find it.
Free, open source, yours
Like every plugin in the official catalog: GPL license, no subscription, no limits.
