The reason people want to migrate Wix to WordPress is usually the same reason Wix felt easy at first: it’s a closed system. Everything is convenient right up until you want something Wix doesn’t do — a specific plugin, a real online store, full control of your SEO, or the freedom to move your site somewhere else without starting over. Wix is a walled garden, and this guide is about getting your content over the wall without losing it or the search rankings you’ve built. It takes more care than Squarespace does, because Wix gives you even less to work with on the way out — but it’s very doable, and it’s the kind of job worth handing off.
First, the hard truth about Wix exports
Squarespace at least offers a partial export in WordPress’s format. Wix, as of September 2026, does not give you a clean, complete one-click export of your whole site into WordPress. There’s no official “export to WordPress” button that reproduces your site. What you can retrieve varies by content type, and the design does not travel at all — Wix’s editor and templates are proprietary and don’t convert to a WordPress theme. That’s the walled garden working as intended: easy to move in, deliberately awkward to move out.
So a Wix migration is best understood as a structured rebuild, not a transfer. That sounds worse than it is. Done methodically, your content comes across, your rankings are preserved, and you end up on an open platform you actually control — which is the entire point of leaving.
Step by step: moving off Wix
1. Move the blog first — it’s the one thing that’s semi-automatable
Wix blog posts are the most portable part of the site. Wix can produce an RSS feed of your posts, and WordPress can pull posts in from a feed, so the blog is where you get the most content moved with the least manual retyping. It’s not always perfect — images and formatting sometimes need cleanup — but it saves the most time, so start there.
2. Rebuild the pages by hand
Your standard pages — home, about, services, contact — don’t export from Wix, so they get recreated in WordPress. In practice this means copying your text over and rebuilding the layout with a WordPress theme or page builder. The upside is that this is your chance to build the site the way you actually want it, on a system that won’t box you in later.
3. Move your images
Images have to be brought over and re-uploaded to WordPress rather than left hotlinked to Wix — you don’t want your new site depending on your old Wix account to display its own photos. Save the originals, upload them into the WordPress media library, and place them as you rebuild each page.
4. Rebuild a store in WooCommerce, if you have one
A Wix store doesn’t transfer into WordPress as-is. Products get re-created in WooCommerce, usually from a product spreadsheet you assemble, and the store is set up fresh. It’s work, but it’s also an upgrade — WooCommerce is far more flexible than a Wix shop, which is often why store owners are leaving in the first place. That’s a store plan on our side, not a basic plan.
5. Set up 301 redirects so your SEO survives
This is the step that protects your traffic, and on a Wix move it’s especially important because Wix’s URLs (particularly its older ones) look nothing like WordPress’s. When your addresses change, every link Google has indexed points at a “page not found” unless you redirect it. A 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding address for a page) for each old URL, pointing to its new WordPress home, tells search engines the page moved permanently and passes the ranking value along. Map your important Wix URLs to their new addresses before the switch, and put the redirects live at cutover. Skip this and you can lose months of hard-won rankings in the weeks after the move; do it right and Google follows you over. The redirect discipline is the same one we cover for migrating from Squarespace.
6. Cut over with zero downtime
Build the whole WordPress site on the new host first, check it privately on a temporary URL until it’s genuinely right, and only then point your domain over with the redirects live. Your Wix site stays up the entire time you’re building the replacement, so visitors never see an outage. The full sequence is in how to switch hosts without downtime and how a zero-downtime migration works.
This is the migration most worth handing off
Because Wix gives you so little to work with, a DIY move is where people stall out halfway — the blog imports, then the manual page rebuild and the redirect mapping and the store re-creation pile up, and the project sits half-finished for months. That’s precisely the work we do for you.
When you join, our team handles the whole Wix migration, free: we rebuild the site on WordPress, bring the content across, re-create the store in WooCommerce if you have one, set up every 301 redirect so your rankings survive, and run the cutover with zero downtime — your Wix site stays live until the WordPress one is verified. And you land somewhere genuinely managed: a flat $29.99-a-month for managed WordPress (a shared store plan starts at $39.99). A firewall and malware scanning keep it clean, updates are applied and verified, your site is backed up off-site 3 times a day and served fast worldwide — plus support any hour. And leaving the walled garden doesn’t have to mean inheriting its chores. On WordPress the updates, security, and backups are real, ongoing work that most hosts leave to you — we don’t just move you off Wix, we run all of that afterward, so the control you came for doesn’t turn into evenings of upkeep or a maintenance bill you have to staff. The best part of leaving a walled garden is that you never have to do it again — WordPress is yours to move, back up, and change however you like.
Take a look at our plans and tell us what your Wix site includes — a blog, pages, a store — and we’ll give you an honest read on the move and take the tedious parts off your hands.
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