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 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > At the moment the maintainers are primarily focused on other projects and are not actively adding new features to Toolpad Core. They may not be able to respond in a timely manner to issues or pull requests.
+>
+> You can use the **CRUD dashboard template** from the [Material UI React templates page](https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/templates/#free-templates) as an easy-to-customize, copy-pastable alternative to the main Toolpad Core components — including dashboard layout and CRUD features.
 
 ## Product walkthrough
 
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 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d2a7ff8e-2dd6-4313-98d2-5f136513f9a9/
 
-At the moment the maintainers are primarily focused on other projects and are not actively adding new features to Toolpad Core. They may not be able to respond in a timely manner to issues or pull requests.
-
 ## Notice
 
 Toolpad is in its beta stages of development. Feel free to run this application to try it out for your use cases, and share any feedback, bug reports or feature requests that you come across.
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 :::warning
 At the moment the maintainers are primarily focused on other projects and are not actively adding new features to Toolpad Core. They may not be able to respond in a timely manner to issues or pull requests.
+
+You can use the **CRUD dashboard template** from the [Material UI React templates page](https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/templates/#free-templates) as an easy-to-customize, copy-pastable alternative to the main Toolpad Core components — including dashboard layout and CRUD features.
 :::
 
 Toolpad Core is a set of full-stack react components that leverages existing MUI components, and ties them with the commonly-used backend integrations to help you create responsive dashboards and internal tools. It comes with the guarantee of MUI's enterprise-tested components, and the Toolpad team's focus on using the latest stable libraries, and prioritising razor-sharp performance.