Wix to WordPress
Wix to WordPress Migration With the Rankings Carried Across
Move a Wix site to WordPress with the rankings carried across. Wix gives you no usable export, so the content is extracted from the live site and the URL map is built from a crawl - including the older fragment-style addresses Google may still hold. Send the address and get the transfer plan in writing.
Roughly what will this cost?
An estimate from the three things that actually drive the price. A fixed quote follows a look at the site.
Get a fixed quote- No export exists, so content is extracted from the live site properly
- Legacy #! fragment URLs mapped as well as the current ones
- Media pulled from the Wix CDN at full resolution
- A site you own outright, on hosting you choose
What transfers, what gets rebuilt
| What | Comes across | Needs rebuilding |
|---|---|---|
| Pages and posts | Yes, extracted from the live site | Layout and structure |
| Images | Yes, from the Wix CDN at source resolution | Nothing, if extracted before you cancel |
| URL structure | No | A redirect for every address, current and legacy |
| Wix apps | No | The equivalent WordPress plugin, chosen deliberately |
| Forms and bookings | No | Rebuilt, with the submissions going somewhere you control |
| Design | No | Rebuilt as a theme; Wix markup is not portable |
| Blog comments | Rarely | Assessed case by case |
The export problem, stated plainly
Wix does not let you take your site with you. There is no export that reproduces the content anywhere else, which is a commercial decision on their part rather than a technical limitation.
So the content is extracted from the live site: every page fetched, the text and structure recovered, the media pulled from their CDN at source resolution. It works, and it is the honest reason this migration costs more than moving from a platform that hands you a file.
The order matters. Everything is extracted while the Wix subscription is still active, because the moment it lapses the media URLs stop answering and the material is gone.
Two generations of URL
Wix used fragment URLs – addresses with #! in them – for years, and plenty of sites still carry inbound links and index entries pointing at that shape.
A redirect map built only from today’s URLs misses them entirely, and those are frequently the addresses with the oldest and most valuable links attached. The crawl looks for both, which is the single practical difference between a Wix migration that keeps its traffic and one that quietly does not.
After the switch, real 404s are checked against the map for a fortnight – the authoritative list of what people actually request is the server log, not the plan. The full sequence is in the WordPress migration checklist.
Where a Wix move sits
The crawl-first method here is not specific to Wix. It is the same approach behind migrating Weebly to WordPress, where the platform is in run-off and the source can stop answering, and behind Shopify to WordPress, where the addresses at risk are product pages rather than articles.
Where the site is already WordPress and only the server is changing, that is a different job with different failure modes – it is covered on WordPress site transfer. And the move itself is the short part: what decides whether the new site is still fast and unbroken a year from now is what happens weekly afterwards, which is what wordpress maintenance plans are for.
How the work runs
- Inventory the old siteEvery URL, every page, every product, every form. The export is checked against a crawl, because platform exports routinely omit what was never a page - landing URLs, redirects already in place, files linked directly.
- Build on WordPress firstContent types, templates and the theme are stood up and populated before anything points here. The old site keeps trading throughout.
- Map every URLOld address to new address, one hop, written down before the switch rather than discovered from 404s afterwards.
- Test what earns moneyForms, checkout, search, login. A migration that moves every page and breaks the enquiry route has failed at the only thing it was for.
- Switch, then watchDNS moves with the TTL already lowered. Real 404s are checked against the redirect map for a fortnight, and the old platform stays paid for until it is provably unnecessary.
The redirect plan
- Crawl the live site for every reachable address, not just the ones in the menu
- Include historical /#! fragment URLs, which older links and some index entries still use
- Map each to its WordPress permalink, one hop
- Redirect the Wix blog feed and any app-generated paths
- Publish as server-level 301s before DNS moves
- Re-crawl and reconcile 404s for a fortnight afterwards
Plans that include this
- Starter$39/monthor $390 a year — two months freeBlogs, portfolios and brochure sites
- UpdatesMonthly
- BackupsWeekly, 30-day retention
- Uptime5-minute checks
- Malware removalNot included
- Most chosenProfessional$79/monthor $790 a year — two months freeSmall businesses and lead-generation sites
- UpdatesWeekly + PHP version management
- BackupsDaily, 60-day retention
- Uptime1-minute checks
- Malware removalIncluded
- Business$149/monthor $1490 a year — two months freeStores, membership sites, anywhere downtime costs money
- UpdatesWeekly, tested on staging first
- BackupsDaily, 90-day, multi-location
- Uptime1-minute + 2-hour restore
- Malware removalIncluded
The service that covers this
WordPress site transferMove a WordPress site to new hosting without the outage everyone expects. The new install is built and tested while the old one keeps serving, DNS…
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Questions people ask before calling
Wix says I cannot export my site. Is that true?
Effectively, yes - there is no complete export. The content is extracted from the live site instead, which works, and is the reason this is a larger job than moving from a platform that exports cleanly.
What about my images?
Pulled from the Wix CDN at the resolution they were uploaded, before anything is cancelled. Once the Wix subscription lapses those URLs stop answering, so extraction comes first and cancellation last.
Will my rankings survive?
With a complete redirect map, yes. Wix sites often have two generations of URL - the old fragment style and the current one - and missing the older set is the usual reason a Wix migration loses traffic.
Do I need to rebuild my forms?
Yes, and it is generally an improvement: submissions land in your own database and integrate with whatever you already use.
Is my Wix booking system replaceable?
Yes, with a WordPress equivalent chosen for your case. That choice is made before the move, not after, because it affects the URL map.