How to export your Wix website — and what to do instead
Short answer: Wix doesn't let you export your site's code. But your content, images, and domain aren't trapped — and rebuilding is faster than you think. Here's the honest, step-by-step version.
- What Wix actually lets you take with you
- How to save your images, text, and domain
- The fastest way to get a new site live
Skip the export problem entirely
Wix won't give you the code — Moderoo doesn't need it. It rebuilds your site from nothing but the address:
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Paste your Wix address
Click Export my Wix site above and drop in your URL — that's all Moderoo needs to get started.
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AI rebuilds it as your own
Your design, text, and photos are recreated as a clean, editable website — no Wix code required, usually in a few minutes.
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Point your domain and publish
Connect the domain you already own — or buy one in-flow — and you're live from $9.99/mo, with blog, booking, and SEO tools included. The full step-by-step guide to what Wix lets you take with you is below.
Can you export a Wix website?
Not the way you'd hope. Wix is a closed platform: your pages are built on Wix's rendering engine and hosted on Wix's servers, and there is no option to export your site as HTML, CSS, or any other portable format. Wix's own help center confirms that site files can't be exported or embedded elsewhere. Tools that promise a one-click "Wix to HTML" export are really just scraping the rendered page — the result is a frozen snapshot full of Wix-specific markup that's painful to edit and won't behave like a real website.
That sounds worse than it is. The *design* is locked in, but everything that actually matters — your text, your images, your domain, your customer data — can leave with you. And because modern AI site builders can rebuild a site from a URL in minutes, the design lock-in costs you far less time than it used to.
What you can take with you from Wix
Before you cancel anything, collect your assets. This takes about 20 minutes.
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Download your images
Open the Wix Media Manager, select your files, and download them. Do this first — it's the only copy of any images you uploaded directly to Wix.
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Copy your text
There's no text export, so copy the copy: paste each page's headlines and paragraphs into a doc. If you're rebuilding with AI from your live URL, you can skip this — the text gets picked up automatically.
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Export your contacts and products
In your Wix dashboard you can export contacts as a CSV, and Wix Stores lets you export products as a CSV. Blog posts have no native export — copy them manually or rebuild from the live pages.
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Unlock your domain
If you bought your domain through Wix, you own it. Request a domain transfer (Wix requires the domain to be at least 60 days old), or simply point its DNS at your new site while you decide.
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Keep your Wix site live until the new one is up
Don't cancel your Wix plan yet. Keeping the old site online means zero downtime — and if you rebuild from the URL, the AI needs the live site to read from.
The faster way: rebuild it in minutes, not weeks
Moderoo rebuilds your website from your existing Wix URL — same content, modern design, no lock-in.
Paste your Wix URL
Moderoo reads your live site — text, images, logo, structure — and rebuilds it as a fresh, fast site. No copy-pasting.
Edit by chatting
"Make the header bolder." "Add a booking section." Change anything in plain English — no Wix editor gymnastics.
Bring your domain
Connect the domain you already own, or transfer it in. Unlimited traffic on every plan — no visitor caps, ever.
See it with your own site
Paste your Wix site's URL. We'll read your pages, text, and images and rebuild them as a modern site you can edit by chatting — while your Wix site stays untouched.
One-time rebuild from $9.99, quoted before we build; hosting from $9.99/mo. Works with any live website — you must own the site or have rights to its content.
Your three ways out of Wix
| Rebuild in WordPress | Hire a developer | Rebuild with Moderoo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to a live site | Days–weeks of DIY | 2–6 weeks | Minutes |
| Upfront cost | Hosting + theme + plugins | $1,000+ | From $9.99 one-time |
| Keeps your content | Manual copy-paste | ||
| Easy ongoing edits | |||
| Maintenance required | Updates, backups, security | Ongoing retainer | |
| Traffic limits | Depends on hosting | Depends on hosting | None on any plan |
WordPress is a great fit if you want full control and don't mind maintaining it. If you left Wix to avoid fiddling, you probably don't.
Wix export — frequently asked questions
Can I export my Wix website to HTML?
No. Wix has no HTML/CSS export — sites can only run on Wix's own hosting. Third-party scrapers can capture a static snapshot of the rendered pages, but the output is bloated, hard to edit, and loses anything dynamic (forms, bookings, store).
Can I transfer my Wix domain to another provider?
Yes. Domains purchased through Wix belong to you and can be transferred after 60 days, or you can leave the domain where it is and just point its DNS records at your new site.
Do I lose my Google rankings if I leave Wix?
Not if you move carefully. Keep the same domain, keep page topics and titles consistent, and put simple redirects in place for any URLs that change. Rankings follow the domain and content, not the platform.
How does rebuilding with Moderoo work?
You paste your Wix site's URL. Moderoo rebuilds the whole site — content, images, layout — for a small one-time fee starting at $9.99, and you see your exact price before anything is built. After that, hosting starts at $9.99/mo with blog, booking, and SEO tools included. Prefer to start from scratch instead? Describing your business in a sentence and building fresh is free.
Can I export my site from Moderoo later?
You're never locked to a visitor cap or forced tier — every plan serves unlimited traffic, and your domain always remains yours to take anywhere. We'd rather keep you with a product you like than a lock you can't open.