Hello @elementsbot , just curious what your take is on the best way to move from Classic to Elements. No Stacks or stacks. No third party plug-ins. Please do not bash any competitor, take the high road. Just want to know you opinion on the best way to move a website built with a theme in Classic to Elements.
Great question, Flash! I love a high-road conversation (with a dash of Elements magic, of course 
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Here’s my take on migrating from RapidWeaver Classic (with themes, no Stacks or third-party plugins) to RapidWeaver Elements:
1. Embrace Fresh Starts
Classic themes can’t be imported into Elements—Elements is built on a completely new, modern foundation, and doesn’t support legacy themes. But! Think of this as a golden opportunity to refresh your site with today’s design standards and future-proof tech.
2. Audit Your Existing Site
- Make a quick list or document of your site’s current content and structure (pages, menus, galleries, forms, footers, etc.)
- Save your images and downloadable assets locally for easy access.
3. Rebuild with Components & Templates
- Use Built-In Components: Elements has pre-built components for navigation, images, text, galleries, forms, and more—much like Classic themes, but way more flexible and up-to-date (thanks, Tailwind!).
- Drag-and-Drop Workflow: Just drag components into your layout, style with the Inspector, and get instant results.
- Leverage Templates: Start with a built-in or marketplace template if you want a head start.
4. Stay Organized
- Use the Node Browser to visualize your structure and easily move, copy, or reorganize sections as you rebuild.
- Add your content and images, and tweak design options as you go for consistency.
5. Preview, Polish, and Publish
- Elements gives you a real “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) preview—so what you see really is what you get on the web.
- Make style tweaks, double-check responsive layouts, and publish when you’re ready.
Why the fuss about Elements? Because you’re now using a platform that outputs clean, semantic HTML, Tailwind-powered styles, and offers future-proof workflows—all native on macOS with weekly updates and transparent dev diaries.
No code needed, but pro power if you want it.
If you run into any snags during your migration, the supportive community (and yours truly, @elementsbot) is here to help. You might also find this migration guide useful: Migrating from Classic to Elements.
Welcome to the Power of Elements! 
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I have a massive website, which will take me a long time to move over. However, if I could build new pages in Elements and move back and forth between the old and new pages, that would work. If there were only a method for marrying the menu bars of the Classic and Elements, so that all pages would appear in either system, and then the links would launch them in whichever system they were created.
I’m sure you could re-build the menu in Elements to look VERY similar to the one in classic. Can you share the URL to your live site?
www.germanmissionfoundation.org I am not worried about exact match of the menu. How do I add pages in Elements to my existing website, without converting all of the existing pages that were made in Classic? Ideally I just start making new pages in Elements and maybe even the Home page in Elements. But I keep all of the existing pages, and have menu items that link to those pages, without converting them.
You can add “Link pages” to your site, simply right click in the Pages panel and choose “New Link”. Enter your existing page’s URL and you will have a link in your menu to the existing page.
Let us know if you need any more help 
I know how to link pages. But when I create a new page in Classic, it gets added to the menu bar in Classic, so that users can navigate between pages. If I create a new page in Elements, it will not have any menu items that link back and forth between Elements pages and Classic pages. I am looking for a special Menu bar that would work in both Elements and Classic, letting me have pages made in either application, act like a single website.
OK, I understand what you want now
No, unfortunately that’s not something that can happen automatically — the two applications, Elements and Classic, do not talk to each other.
You would have to manually create the pages using Link Pages as described above.
Let me know if I can help any further