How to clone a Hostinger Horizons template and make it yours
The short answer
Open the live demo, press Use template in the Hostinger bar at the bottom of the page, and Hostinger opens a copy of that exact build in its Horizons editor under your own account. Cloning costs nothing; publishing the finished site needs a Horizons plan. From there it is a rebrand, not a rebuild: change the name, colours and copy in one place, replace every placeholder with your real details, connect your booking or quote tools, and publish.
By Nikolai Bhend · Updated September 2, 2026 · 8 steps
From live demo to your own site, in 8 steps
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Choose the template
Pick the template built for your field from the directory. If your field is not one of the ten, use the finder on the templates page — it matches on how a business works (booking, quotes, consultations, visits, listings), so a physiotherapist lands on the dental pattern and a consultant on the accounting one.
Worth knowing — Every template is a complete site, not a homepage: service pages, legal pages, forms and schema are already there.
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Walk the live demo like a customer
Open the demo on its own sub-domain and use it the way your customers would: every page, the booking or quote flow, on your phone. What you see is exactly what you will receive — the demo is the build, not a mockup of it.
Worth knowing — The guide page for each template lists what it ships and what its audits verified.
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Press Use template
On the live demo, a Hostinger bar sits at the bottom of the page. Press Use template. Hostinger opens a copy of the build in its Horizons editor under your own account — if you do not have one yet, it asks you to create it first. Nothing about the original changes; the copy is yours to edit.
Worth knowing — Cloning is free at this step. A Horizons plan is needed later, to publish.
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Rebrand in one place
Each template keeps its business name, address, phone, hours, colours and core copy in one data file, and every page, the schema and the fallbacks read from it. Change it there and the whole site follows. The colour system is built to take a new palette without breaking the contrast the audits verified.
Worth knowing — Ask the Horizons assistant to change the values in that file for you if you would rather not open the code.
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Replace every placeholder
The demos are fictional businesses. Phone numbers are 555 numbers, addresses and emails are placeholders, licence and credential lines are labelled swap-me, provider photos are slots that stay empty until you add a consented photograph, and review or before-and-after sections stay empty until you have real, consented material. Nothing on a demo is yours until you replace it.
Worth knowing — Search the project for 555, placeholder and swap-me to find every one.
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Connect your real tools
The forms work out of the box with a graceful fallback, and every template has a clear hand-off point for the tool you actually run: a scheduler behind the booking button, your intake or CRM behind the quote flow, a reservation platform behind the reserve action. Point each at your system once and every button that uses it follows.
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Check the legal and compliance text with your own adviser
Privacy and terms pages, consent language on forms, regulator lines and mandated disclaimers ship as a structure to fill, not as legal advice. Have your own adviser confirm the wording for your jurisdiction before you publish.
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Publish, connect your domain, and keep it current
Publish from Horizons and connect your domain. Then do the three things that make a local site findable: set up your Google Business Profile with exactly the same name, address, phone and hours as the site, add the site to Search Console, and turn on analytics. After that, keep hours, prices and the people on the site current — stale details cost more trust than a plain design ever will.
Try the first three steps right now
Open Bright Smile Dental, walk it like a patient would, and look for the Hostinger bar at the bottom of the page. That bar is the whole clone action — the rest of this guide is what you do once the copy is yours. Or start from the full directory of 10.
Questions people ask
No. Cloning is one click, the Horizons editor lets you change text and images directly on the page, and the values that drive the whole site — name, address, phone, colours — live in one place you can edit or ask the assistant to edit.
Cloning and editing a template costs nothing, and this directory charges nothing. Publishing the finished site needs a Hostinger Horizons plan. When a clone leads to a paid plan, Hostinger pays the template’s maker a referral commission — that is how this directory is funded, and it is disclosed on the about page.
Yes. The palette, type and spacing are a token system: change the values and every page follows, with the contrast still checked. Layout changes are ordinary edits in the Horizons editor. What you keep for free is the structure, the schema and the accessibility work.
Replace all of it. The names, addresses, phone numbers and people are placeholders; the photographs are the demo’s and should be swapped for your own. The audits treat every such item as a labelled swap-me so nothing fictional survives into your site unnoticed.
Yes — clone once per client. Agencies and freelancers are exactly who the research, audits and accessibility work save the most time for. Each clone is independent, so one client’s changes never touch another’s.
No. Your copy is independent from the moment it is created; the directory’s later improvements do not flow into it, and nothing you change is visible to anyone else. Treat the clone as your own site from day one.
The one whose pattern matches how your business is used, not the closest trade name. The finder on the templates page asks three questions — what a visitor does first, whether the work is licensed, how customers reach you — and points at the closest match with the reason.