From the course: Building a Small Business Website with Open Source WordPress

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Using starter templates

Using starter templates

- [Instructor] As the block editor has matured, more and more themes are adding starter templates. I'm in love with starter templates as it takes away the burden from designing a site from scratch. In this lesson, we'll explore some of the starter templates available with Astra and look at how to use them. So to start, I'm going to go back to my site and from the appearance menu, head to Astra options. Now under this starter template section, there's an option to install the importer plugin. I'm going to go ahead and go through that process. And this brings us to an introductory screen. You're welcome to pause this lesson if you want to hear the intro here. Otherwise, I'm going to continue on with this build your website button. Next I'm asked to select which page builder I'm using. I'm using Gutenberg or the block editor for this course so I'll click that. And it looked like something went wrong here, my templates…

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