Wix → WordPress migration
Wix Got You Online.
WordPress Keeps You
In Business.
We rebuild Wix stores, blogs and business sites on self-hosted WordPress + WooCommerce — catalog, orders, customers and articles rebuilt, every old URL redirected, rankings protected. Fixed price. Two to three weeks. Zero downtime.
Free 30-min call · Fixed quote within 48h · English / 普通话 / 粤语
1,000+
Sites delivered
25%
countries covered
15 yrs
WordPress only
Official
WordPress.org plugin author
What Wix gives you today
Monthly plan + per-app fees
No full-site export
Blog cannot be exported
Layouts locked to Wix
No staging on lower tiers
Images live on wixstatic CDN
What you get on WordPress
✓ Hosting, files and database you own
✓ Full export any time, no permission needed
✓ Products, orders, customers via CSV
✓ Elementor you can edit yourself
✓ No platform transaction fees
Wix is cheap to start and expensive to stay on
None of this is a scandal — it is just how a rented platform works. The cost shows up in places the plan page does not list.
COST
You rent the website, not the platform fee
Every functional need — bookings, subscriptions, wholesale pricing, multilingual — arrives as another monthly app. The plan is the floor, not the total.
RISK
There is no full-site export
Wix exports products, orders and contacts as CSV. It does not export your blog, your page layouts or your form history in a form WordPress can import.
RISK
Your URLs are Wix's URLs
/post/, /product-page/, /shop/ and /booking/ are fixed patterns. Move without a per-URL redirect map and every one of them becomes a 404 in Search Console.
COST
Images sit on Wix's CDN
Product and blog images are served from static.wixstatic.com with resize parameters baked into the URL. Copy the page HTML and the images go with it.
RISK
SEO control stops at the checklist
No server configuration, no schema injection, no edge cache rules, no access logs when rankings drop. You can write titles — and little else.
COST
Leaving gets harder every year
The longer a site stays, the more content, orders and redirects have to be rebuilt at once. The cheapest migration is the one you do early.
What Actually Transfers
Two lists, because a migration is two projects running at once: the store data, and everything Google and your customers already know about.
Store data — Wix Stores to WooCommerce
✓ Products, variants and options (CSV)
✓ Collections → WooCommerce categories
✓ Product images re-uploaded at full resolution
✓ Customers and contact records
✓ Orders with status, totals and history
✓ Coupons and discount rules
✓ Shipping zones and tax settings
✓ Digital files and downloads
Content and SEO — the part quotes usually skip
✓ Blog posts rebuilt with original dates and authors
✓ Pages rebuilt in Elementor
✓ 1:1 URL map with tested 301 redirects
✓ Titles and meta descriptions rewritten
✓ Canonicals, sitemap and Search Console
✓ Structured data: Product, Article, FAQ
✓ Internal links repaired
✓ 30-day ranking and 404 monitoring
If something cannot be carried across cleanly, we say so in the audit — in writing, before you pay anything.
Dedicated guides: Shopify to WordPress migration · SaaS to WordPress migration
Six things that only go wrong on a Wix migration
Every platform has its own traps. These are the ones we handle on every Wix project — most of them are invisible until launch week.
01
wixstatic image URLs
Every image carries resize parameters (/v1/fill/w_500,h_500/). We strip them, fetch the original file, and re-upload at full resolution with alt text.
02
The blog has no export
Wix's RSS feed only exposes the first lines of each post. Posts are re-created from the live pages, dates, authors and categories preserved.
03
Fixed Wix paths
/post/, /product-page/, /shop/, /event/, /booking/ each need their own mapped destination and a tested 301 — a blanket rule will break them.
04
Forms and their history
Existing Wix Forms submissions are exported and loaded into the new stack, so lead history survives the move.
05
Bookings, Events, Plans
Rebuilt as WooCommerce bookings, ticketing products or subscriptions — with the plugin and its annual cost quoted up front.
06
Wix Multilingual
Each language gets its own URL map in WPML or Polylang, so /es/, /fr/ style paths keep resolving after cutover.
Wix vs WordPress, line by line
The comparison most agencies publish leaves out the rows where they lose. Here are all of them.
Line item
Wix
WordPress + WooCommerce
Hosting and ownership
Wix's servers, plan-locked
Your host, your files, your database
Content export
Products, orders, contacts as CSV only
Full database export, any time
URL structure
Fixed /post/, /product-page/, /shop/
Any permalink structure you want
SEO control
Checklist-level, no server access
Server config, schema, cache, logs
Staging site
Higher plan tiers only
Free, on any decent host
Adding a feature
App market, one subscription each
Plugins — free, freemium or one-time
Transaction fees
Wix Payments rates apply
Payment processor only
Platform cost, 3 years
$1,500 – $4,000 in plans and apps
$300 hosting + one-time build
Illustrative, based on published list prices at the time of writing. Your numbers depend on plan, catalog size and app stack — the real figures go in your audit.
Five steps, two weeks, no downtime
The Wix site keeps running until the moment the domain switches. Nothing is visible to your customers until launch day.
Day 0
Free migration audit
A read-only screen share with your Wix account: pages, products, orders, apps, forms and the full URL list. You leave with what can move, what gets rebuilt, and what it costs.
Day 1–3
Staging and data
WordPress on staging, CSV clean-up and import for products, customers and orders, images pulled from wixstatic at full size, categories and attributes mapped.
Day 3–8
Rebuild or redesign
Pages rebuilt in Elementor, blog re-created with original dates and authors, mobile pass, forms wired to your inbox or CRM.
Day 6–10
Redirects and SEO
The 1:1 URL map becomes tested 301s on staging, titles and meta rewritten, schema added, sitemap submitted, Search Console verified.
Day 10–14
Cutover and 30-day watch
DNS switches, the Wix plan can be cancelled, and we monitor 404s, forms, checkout and rankings for 30 days afterwards.
Why teams hand this to us
A migration is one part data, two parts judgement. These are the parts we can prove.
WordPress only, since 2010
Fifteen years on one stack. We are not a marketplace of freelancers who also do migrations.
Official WordPress.org plugin author
Our plugins are reviewed and distributed on WordPress.org — you can audit the code we write.
1,000+ sites, 25% of countries
B2B exporters, retailers and service businesses across six continents, delivered in English and Chinese.
Fixed price, fixed dates
Quoted after the audit, held to the day. If scope changes, it changes on paper first.
The redirect matrix is a deliverable
You receive the spreadsheet mapping every old URL to its new one — not a promise that redirects were handled.
30 days of post-launch watch
404s, forms, checkout, indexing. Fixes in that window are included, not invoiced.
Three ways to move
Every engagement starts with the free audit. The price is fixed after it — and it does not move afterwards.
Migration only
You have a WordPress design in mind and need the data and redirects moved cleanly.
Fixed quote
delivered within 48h of the audit
✓ Catalog, customers, orders, content
✓ Blog re-created, dates preserved
✓ 1:1 URL map + tested 301s
✓ 30-day post-launch watch
Start with the auditMOST CHOSEN
Migration + redesign
Move and rebuild for conversion, speed and mobile — not just parity.
Fixed quote
delivered within 48h of the audit
✓ Everything in Migration only
✓ Elementor design, mobile first
✓ Core Web Vitals pass
✓ Schema, sitemap, Search Console
✓ Training and handover
Start with the auditMigration + growth
Move, rebuild, then six months of SEO and GEO so the new site climbs instead of idling.
Fixed quote
delivered within 48h of the audit
✓ Everything in Migration + redesign
✓ Keyword and content plan
✓ Monthly SEO / GEO reporting
✓ Quarterly conversion review
Book a strategy callWix to WordPress: the questions people actually ask
Will I lose my Google rankings?
Not if the redirects are done properly. Wix uses fixed paths — /post/, /product-page/, /shop/ — so every live URL needs its own destination or a tested 301. We build that map before launch, test it on staging, then re-submit the sitemap in Search Console. For 30 days after cutover we watch impressions, 404s and crawl errors.
Can I export my Wix blog?
No — Wix has no blog export, and its RSS feed only carries the first lines of each post. We re-create the posts from the live pages: same publish dates, authors, categories and tags, images pulled at full size, canonicals pointing at the new URLs. A 60-post blog takes about a day.
Do I have to keep paying Wix after the move?
Only until the domain cuts over. Keep the plan active through launch week as a safety net, then cancel it. By then your catalog, orders, customers and content live on your own hosting.
What happens to my products, orders and customers?
Wix exports products, orders and contacts as CSV files. We clean them, map Wix fields to WooCommerce fields, import, then reconcile product counts, order totals and customer numbers with you before launch.
Can you reuse my Wix images?
Yes. Each image URL on static.wixstatic.com contains resize parameters. We strip them, download the original file at full resolution, and upload it to the WordPress media library with alt text intact.
How long does a Wix migration take?
Two to three weeks for most sites: about a week for data and staging, a week for the rebuild, then a few days for redirects and cutover. Large catalogs and sites using Wix Bookings sit at the top of that range.
My site uses Bookings, Events or Pricing Plans — can those move?
Yes, as WooCommerce equivalents: bookings with a booking plugin, events as ticketing products, plans as subscriptions. The audit names the exact plugin and its annual cost before you commit.
Who owns the hosting and the data afterwards?
You do — hosting account, domain, WordPress admin, database and backups all sit in your name. We are the builder, not the landlord. That is the entire point of leaving a rented platform.
After the move
Migration from other platforms
Coming from Shopify, Squarespace or Webflow instead? Same process, different export quirks.
Learn more →WordPress hosting & care
Updates, backups, security and uptime monitoring — we keep the lights on after launch.
Learn more →SEO & GEO after launch
Rankings, content and AI-search visibility, built on the site we just migrated.
Learn more →
