Comes across
- Page text and images, pulled page by page
- Blog posts, via the RSS feed
- Your domain, pointed at the new host
- Page titles and meta descriptions
Migrations
Moving from Wix to WordPress
Wix has no full export, so this is never a database migration. Content gets extracted, the design gets rebuilt, and the URLs get mapped so you keep your rankings.
Before anyone quotes
What survives the move, and what does not
Most migration disputes come from this list being assumed rather than agreed. So we agree it first.
Gets rebuilt
- The entire design: Wix markup is proprietary and does not port
- Forms, and wherever their submissions were going
- Anything from the Wix App Market
- Wix Stores, Bookings and Members areas
The expensive surprises
Three things specific to Wix
There is no export button
Wix does not let you take a database with you. Anyone promising a one-click move is describing a scrape. Done carefully that is fine, but it is a content extraction and should be priced as one.
The URLs do not line up
Wix puts blog posts under /post/ and pages in a flat structure. Without a redirect map written before launch, every ranking page returns a 404 on day one.
ADI layouts map to nothing
Sites built by Wix ADI have no structure underneath, just absolutely positioned blocks. Rebuilding is genuinely faster than trying to translate it.
How it runs
Five steps, same every time
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Crawl what is live
Every URL currently indexed, exported to a sheet. This becomes the redirect map and the definition of done.
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Audit the export
What the platform gives us, compared against what the crawl found. The difference is the rebuild, and it gets priced before we start.
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Build on staging
The new site goes up somewhere private, with real content imported, so you review the actual thing rather than a mockup.
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Map every redirect
Old URL to new URL, one row at a time, tested as 301s on staging before anything points at production.
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Cut over and watch
DNS moves, then we monitor crawl errors and traffic for the fortnight that follows, because that is when problems surface.
Before you commit
Leaving Wix, answered
Something not covered here? Ask us directly and an engineer will answer.
Ask a questionFrom Wix we can bring over: page text and images, pulled page by page; blog posts, via the rss feed; your domain, pointed at the new host; page titles and meta descriptions. Everything else on the site has to be rebuilt, and we agree which is which before quoting.
The parts with no equivalent on the other side: the entire design: wix markup is proprietary and does not port; forms, and wherever their submissions were going; anything from the wix app market; wix stores, bookings and members areas. This is where the cost sits, so it is priced up front rather than discovered halfway through.
Not if the redirects are done properly. We crawl every URL that is currently indexed, map each one to its new address, and test those as 301s on staging before anything points at production. Then we watch crawl errors and traffic for the fortnight after cutover.
Wix does not let you take a database with you. Anyone promising a one-click move is describing a scrape. Done carefully that is fine, but it is a content extraction and should be priced as one.
Wix puts blog posts under /post/ and pages in a flat structure. Without a redirect map written before launch, every ranking page returns a 404 on day one.
Start here
Send us the Wix site
We will crawl it, work out what the export actually gives us, and come back with a fixed price and the redirect map included.
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A free audit first
We'll look at your site and tell you straight what needs doing.
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Fixed scope, fixed price
Agreed in writing before any work starts. No hidden fees.
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A real engineer on the call
You talk to the people who do the work, not a sales script.