Migration · Wix → WordPress

Wix to WordPress migration, without starting from zero.

Wix gets sites launched fast — and then the walls appear: rising subscriptions, limited SEO control, and no way to take your site with you. There is no full Wix export, but that does not mean starting over. We extract what you have built, rebuild it properly, and map every URL so Google follows you to the new site.

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Content, blog posts and images extracted despite Wix having no export
Every Wix URL mapped and 301-redirected — rankings preserved
A real WordPress build at the end, not an imitation of the Wix editor

Why switch

When businesses come to us for Wix to WordPress.

Subscription creep

Wix pricing climbs as you add features — apps, storage, bandwidth tiers. WordPress hosting costs what hosting costs, and the software is free.

SEO ceiling

Limited control over technical SEO — site structure, clean markup, schema, performance tuning — caps how far a Wix site can rank.

No portability

Wix content cannot be exported wholesale. The longer you stay, the more you build inside a walled garden.

Feature walls

When you need something the Wix app market does not offer, the answer is no. On WordPress, the answer is a plugin or some code.

What moves

What comes across in a Wix to WordPress migration.

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Pages and content — extracted and rebuilt as WordPress pages with the block editor
Blog posts — Wix exposes posts via RSS and APIs; we pull the full set, with dates and authors
Images and media — downloaded from Wix CDN at source quality and re-hosted in your media library
URL map — every Wix URL (including their odd /post/ and /single-post/ patterns) 301-redirected
Forms — rebuilt with a WordPress form plugin, submissions delivered to your inbox as before
Domain — repointed to the new host (and transferred out of Wix if it is registered there)

The Wix specifics

What our Wix to WordPress work covers.

Every platform has traps that generic migration checklists miss. These are the Wix-specific ones — the difference between a clean move and a rescue job.

There is no full export

Wix deliberately offers no site export. Content comes out via the blog RSS/API, manual extraction and scraping tools — messy, but a known, solvable job. Budget for it rather than being surprised by it.

Velo code does not port

Anything built with Velo (Wix code) is written against Wix APIs and cannot run on WordPress. It gets re-implemented — usually better — as a plugin or theme code.

Wix URLs are strange

Blog posts live under /post/ or /single-post/ with generated slugs. The redirect map has to catch every variant, or those pages 404 and their rankings die.

Domains registered at Wix

If your domain was registered through Wix, plan the transfer early — registrar transfers have waiting periods, and the domain must not lapse mid-migration.

Wix-hosted email

Mailboxes attached to a Wix/Google Workspace bundle need their own migration path before the Wix subscription is cancelled, or mail stops.

Process

How the Wix to WordPress migration runs.

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Every migration is a parallel build: your Wix site keeps running while the new WordPress site is built and verified beside it. The switch is a planned window, not a leap.

Audit and inventory. Content, URLs, rankings, integrations — everything that must survive gets listed before anything moves.
Parallel build. The WordPress site is built and the data migrated on staging, while the live site trades on untouched.
Verification. Content counts, redirect map, metadata parity, forms — checked against the inventory.
Cutover. DNS switches in a low-traffic window; the old site stays reachable to us until everything is confirmed.
Aftercare. We watch Search Console, 404s and the numbers for the following weeks and fix what the real world surfaces.

Cost and timeline

What a Wix to WordPress migration costs, and what moves the number.

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Two quotes for the same Wix site can differ by several thousand, and the spread is rarely padding — it is usually that the two firms read the job differently. Rather than publish one figure that would be wrong for most readers, here is what actually moves the number.

How much has to be extracted by hand

Wix has no site export, so the content comes out page by page. That makes volume the first driver: a nine-page brochure site is a different job from ninety pages accumulated over six years, regardless of how they look.

How many distinct layouts there are

Ninety pages built from seven layouts is a smaller job than twenty pages that are all different. Count layouts, not pages — it is the number that drives the rebuild, and the one thing worth counting yourself before asking anyone for a price.

How much the Wix apps were doing

Bookings, members, stores, forms and third-party embeds each need a WordPress equivalent chosen, configured and tested. Sites almost always run more of these than their owner remembers, and each one is real work rather than a setting.

How large the blog is

Posts come out through RSS and the APIs, which is fast, but images, internal links and categories still need checking per post. A hundred posts is not a hundred times a single post — it is closer to a day that nobody costed.

How much URL history you are carrying

Wix's /post/ and /single-post/ patterns need explicit mapping. A young site maps in an afternoon; one with years of campaign URLs and inbound links needs a redirect map built and tested, which is where migrations lose rankings when it is skipped.

Questions

Wix to WordPress questions, answered plainly.

If your Wix to WordPress question is not covered here, send us the details and we will reply with a straight answer.

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Can I export my site from Wix?

Not fully — Wix has no site export. Blog posts can come out via RSS and the Wix APIs, products via CSV, and the rest of the content is extracted page by page with tools and careful handiwork. The design and layouts are rebuilt rather than exported, which is what a hosted platform means in practice. It is the least elegant part of any Wix migration, and it is entirely routine for us.

Will my blog posts and their rankings survive?

Yes. Posts are pulled with their content, dates and images, rebuilt in WordPress, and every old Wix URL — including the /post/ and /single-post/ patterns — is 301-redirected to its new home. Google follows the redirects and transfers the rankings.

What happens to my Wix subscription and domain?

Once the new site is live and verified, the Wix plan can be cancelled. If your domain is registered with Wix, we transfer it to a registrar you control first — that takes a few days and should start early, not on launch day.

Will the new site look the same?

It will look as good or better — but it is a rebuild, not a copy. Wix designs are locked to the Wix editor, so we rebuild the design properly in WordPress, keeping what works and fixing what the Wix constraints forced on you.

How does a Wix to WordPress migration work?

The WordPress site is built in parallel while Wix keeps trading. Content is copied across, every indexed URL is mapped to a 301, and the cutover is a DNS change with a rollback ready.

The platform itself is documented at wordpress.org.