• Kadence is a well-built, performant theme and works great for single-site setups. However, the removal (or absence) of Customizer Import / Export in the free version is a significant limitation for developers and power users.

    Without a way to export and restore Customizer settings, it becomes unnecessarily difficult to:
    – move designs between environments (dev → staging → production)
    – back up theme configuration independently of full database backups
    – reuse design presets across multiple sites

    Other themes manage to provide basic import/export functionality without locking it behind a paid tier, so this feels like an artificial restriction rather than a technical limitation.

    I hope Kadence considers reintroducing basic Import / Export for Customizer settings, even in a limited form, as it would greatly improve developer workflow and theme portability.

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