In the Advanced editor, press Import from Carrd in the menu, or choose it when you start a new page.
Paste your address, like yourname.carrd.co, confirm that the site is yours or that you have permission, and press Import. You see each step as it happens: loading the page, reading its pages and styles, compressing each image, building your page and running the safety check.
The result is your Advanced page, as an exact copy with each Carrd section as its own page. Click any text, image or link in Visual to edit it, drag things around, or change the code in HTML. Nothing goes live until you press Publish, and your simple page is not touched. If you already had an Advanced page, it is replaced, and you can undo that until you leave the editor.
What comes across
- Your layout, text, colors, spacing and responsive styles.
- Pages, which keep working from your menus and buttons once published.
- Google Fonts and icons.
- Links.
- Images, copied to Linky and compressed automatically. Animated GIFs stay animated.
Limits
- 10 images. Page backgrounds go first, then images in the order they appear. Any others are left out.
- 10 pages. The first ten are copied.
- The import must fit 512,000 characters after compressing it. Very large sites may not fit.
When it finishes, you get a list of anything that was left out.
What cannot be copied
Carrd runs scripts that Linky does not allow on custom pages, so these do not carry over:
- Embedded players such as Bandcamp become a link to the original.
- Forms and audio players are removed.
- Background video shows as a still image when Carrd provides one.
- Gallery pop-ups are gone, but the pictures stay on the page.
- Scroll animations and other script effects are gone. Animations written in CSS still work.
Only import a site that is yours or that you have permission to copy.