Moving your settings to another site

Settings → Import / Export.

Set the plugin up once, on a staging site say, and take it to your other sites instead of doing it all again. Export settings gives you a small .json file; Import settings on the other site reads it.

It carries the settings, the cart timer's and Who can manage campaigns included, and your campaigns. It carries no licence key and nothing about your visitors. The file is plain text and you can open it.

Every campaign from a file comes in switched off. A campaign can open or close sales, link a coupon and start a countdown on a live shop, so nothing from a file does any of that until you have looked at it on this site and switched it on. The message after the import says so. A campaign in the file replaces the one with the same ID here, which is how a newer file from the same staging site updates the campaigns an earlier one brought. Every other campaign on this site is left as it is.

The cart timer comes in switched off too. It applies its coupon to every cart, so a file that has it on brings its length, wording, coupon and code, and leaves Enable the cart timer unticked until you switch it on under Cart Timer. The message after the import says so.

Campaigns name products, categories, tags, pages and coupons by their number on the site that made the file, and the product that is number 412 there is something else here, or nothing. So the file also carries what each is called, and this site finds each one by that: a category or tag by its slug, a product by its SKU, or by its slug where it has none, a page by its address, a coupon by its code. A page, post or product is only ever found as one: an image in the media library with the same name is never taken for it. Anything this site does not have is left out, and never replaced by something wider: a campaign set to Selected products only whose products are all missing here covers no product, not every product. The message after the import names what each campaign came in without. A coupon that one of this site's own campaigns already uses stays with it, as a code belongs to one campaign, and the message says so. Go to another page and the link beside the clock, where they point at a page of the site that made the file, are moved to the same page on this one.

A file re-imported into the site that made it keeps every number. An imported value goes through exactly the same checks as one you typed into a form, so a hand-edited file cannot put anything into your settings or campaigns that a screen would have refused.