Wix to WordPress migration service
We rebuild your Wix site in WordPress, carry its content across, and redirect every old Wix address to its new one. For site owners who have decided to leave Wix, which has no export for a whole site. Quoted in writing after a free assessment.
In short
- Wix has no export for a whole site, so the pages are rebuilt in WordPress.
- Your text and images are carried across. Products, contacts and orders leave Wix as CSV files.
- Every old Wix address is redirected to its new one, and the redirects are checked.
- It starts with a free assessment and a fixed quote in writing.
- Your Wix site stays live until you have looked at the new one.
- A small site with no store is one you can move yourself. The guide is linked on this page.
A move from Wix to WordPress is not a copy. Wix's help center says a Wix site is built with Wix's own technology and has to be hosted on Wix's servers, and that blog posts cannot be exported to other platforms. No file holds the whole site.
So this service is a rebuild with your content in it. We build your pages again in WordPress, carry your text, images and posts across, bring in what Wix does export, and redirect every old Wix address to its new one.
Who it is for, and who it is not
It fits when all of these are true:
- you have decided to leave Wix, and the site will be WordPress afterward
- you do not want to copy the site across page by page yourself
- people reach the site from search results and from links on other sites, and you want each old address to keep leading somewhere
It is not for you, or not yet, in these cases.
- You are not sure about leaving. Wix hosts and runs the site for you. On WordPress you choose the hosting, and someone has to keep the site updated and backed up: the WordPress maintenance checklist shows what that involves. If the Wix site does what you need, staying is a reasonable choice.
- The site is small and has no store. You can move it yourself with how to migrate from Wix to WordPress. That is a reasonable choice for a site with few pages, no store and few old addresses that get visits.
- You want a different look. This service rebuilds the design you have. A new one is design and development.
- The site is already WordPress, and only its hosting is changing. That is a copy with a fixed price: see WordPress migration.
- The site is on something other than Wix. See the migrations page. If you do not know what a site is built with, the platform detector reads it from outside.
What you get
- A written list before you decide. What moves by itself, what has to be rebuilt, and each Wix app matched to a WordPress plugin or left out.
- A fixed quote in writing. The assessment that comes before it is free, and you owe nothing after it.
- Your pages in WordPress, with your content in them. Your text, images and posts are carried across, and the design is rebuilt to match what you have. The table below says what happens to each list Wix exports.
- Old addresses that still lead somewhere. A page that can keep its address keeps it. Every other old address is redirected, and the redirects are checked before the domain is changed.
- A new site you have seen before your visitors do. It is built on a staging copy while your Wix site stays live. The domain is changed only after you have looked at it.
What moves, and what is rebuilt
| What | How it gets there | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pages | Rebuilt in WordPress, with your text and images carried across | Wix has no export for pages. |
| Blog posts | Carried across as WordPress posts | Wix says posts cannot be exported. Its RSS feed shows no more than 20. |
| Images and video | Downloaded from Wix and uploaded to WordPress | Wix says only images and videos that you uploaded can be downloaded. Free Wix and Shutterstock media cannot, so a page that uses one needs a new image. |
| Products | Exported from Wix as a CSV file and imported into WooCommerce | Wix's export leaves out digital products. Those are added by hand. |
| Customers and contacts | Exported from Wix as a CSV file | Passwords never move between platforms. Customers and members set a new one. |
| Orders | Exported from Wix as a CSV file | The CSV tool built into WooCommerce is for products. The assessment says whether past orders are imported or kept as a file. |
| Bookings | Set up again in WordPress | Wix exports a list of bookings. It says the configuration of services cannot be exported. |
| Forms | Rebuilt in WordPress | Past submissions leave Wix as a CSV file. |
| Apps | Each one matched to a WordPress plugin, or left out | Listed one by one in the assessment. |
| Design | Rebuilt in WordPress to match what you have | A Wix template works only on Wix. The design is rebuilt, not copied. |
| Domain | Stays yours | A domain bought from Wix can be pointed at the new site from Wix's DNS settings, or transferred to another registrar. Wix says a domain cannot be transferred within 60 days of purchase. |
What happens to your old addresses
Search engines and other sites link to your Wix addresses. Each one has to lead somewhere on the new site.
| On Wix, by default | In WordPress |
|---|---|
example.com/ for a page | The same address, when the page keeps its slug |
example.com/ for a blog post | Set by the permalink structure you choose |
example.com/ for a product | example.com/, WooCommerce's default |
Wix lets a site rename those prefixes, so we work from the addresses your site answers at, not from the defaults. A page that can keep its address keeps it. Every other old address is redirected to its new page.
Once the domain points at the new site, Wix no longer answers for those addresses. The redirects are made on the WordPress site, and they are checked before the domain is changed.
How it works
Step 1: Ask for a free migration assessment
Tell us on the migration assessment page that you are on Wix and moving to WordPress, and roughly how big the site is: how many pages and posts, and whether it has a store or bookings.
Step 2: Get a written list and a fixed quote
We reply in writing with what moves by itself, what has to be rebuilt, and a fixed quote. Whether to go ahead is up to you.
Step 3: The new site is built on a staging copy
Your Wix site stays live and unchanged while this happens.
Step 4: Old addresses are mapped and the redirects checked
Each Wix address is matched to its new page, and each redirect is checked.
Step 5: You look at the new site
The domain is changed only after that.
What we need from you to start
For the assessment, the form asks for your name, an email address for the reply, where the site is now, where you want it, roughly how big it is, and its address if you can share it. In the message, say:
- how many pages and blog posts the site has
- whether it has a store, bookings or a members area
- which Wix apps it uses, and anything it could not do without
- when you would like to move
We use these details to reply to you about this request, and for nothing else.
For the move itself:
- The WordPress hosting, bought by you.
- Your Wix plan, kept running until the new site is live on your domain.
- An answer to where your email lives. Mailboxes are not moved.
What it does not cover
- Hosting and Wix's fees. You buy the hosting for the WordPress site. Your Wix plan is yours to cancel. Wix says canceling a plan does not cancel a domain or a business email subscription held there.
- Email. Mailboxes are not moved. If the domain is transferred away from Wix, Wix says the mail records have to be added again afterwards for business email to work.
- New design work. The service rebuilds the design you have. A new look is a separate job: see design and development.
- Looking after the site afterwards. Updates, backups and monitoring are a care plan. See WordPress maintenance, or WooCommerce maintenance for a store.
Moves from other platforms are on the migrations page.
Before you ask: do it yourself, or check first
Each of these is free to use.
- How to migrate from Wix to WordPress. The whole move by hand, and where it goes wrong.
- How to migrate a website without losing SEO. What Google and Bing document about a move.
- WordPress migration cost. What moves the price of a change of platform, and what a quote should say. Hold ours against it.
- Website migration checklist. The order of work before, during and after the switch.
- Redirect map builder and redirect checker. The first turns a list of old and new addresses into redirect rules. The second shows where an old address leads now, hop by hop.
- Moving a WordPress site or changing platform. Every page we have on the subject.
What it costs
Platform migration
Ask us for a quote
Moving a site or a store from one platform to another, with its old addresses redirected to the new ones.
- A written list of what moves and what is rebuilt, before you decide
- Old addresses redirected to the new ones, and checked
- The new site checked before the domain is changed
Common questions
Can you export my Wix site and import it into WordPress?
No, and nobody can. Wix says a Wix site cannot be exported to another host. What Wix does export are lists: products, contacts, orders, bookings and form submissions, each as a CSV file. Everything else is rebuilt.
Can I do the move myself?
Yes. How to migrate from Wix to WordPress goes through it. Pages are rebuilt by hand, and Wix's feed holds no more than 20 blog posts, so count your pages and posts before you decide.
What will it cost?
It is quoted in writing, because no two sites are the same size. The assessment is free, and you owe nothing after it. WordPress migration cost lists what sets the size of the job, so you can count your own first.
How long will it take?
This page gives no time, because that depends on how many pages are rebuilt and on what the site does. The assessment form asks when you would like to move. Say so there.
Will my site go offline during the move?
Your Wix site keeps serving visitors while the new one is built. After any DNS change, some visitors still reach the old site for a while, until the change has spread. Keep the Wix site in place until the new one has been serving visitors without trouble.
Will my search rankings stay the same?
Nobody can promise that. What protects them is that every old address leads to its new page. That is what the redirects are for, and each one is checked before the domain is changed. How to migrate a website without losing SEO sets out what the search engines themselves say about a move.
Should I cancel my Wix plan first?
No. Wix says that when a plan ends, the site's address reverts to the free Wix one and Wix ads appear on it. Keep the plan until the new site is live on your domain.