Migrating Wix to WordPress? Read this first
There's no transfer button: Wix can't export your site, so a WordPress migration means rebuilding by hand — then hosting, updating, and securing it yourself, forever. This guide covers the real steps, the real costs, and the third option most guides skip.
- What actually moves from Wix to WordPress (and what can't)
- What running WordPress really costs per year
- The ten-minute alternative to a two-week migration
Before you migrate: the ten-minute alternative
If the goal is leaving Wix — not adopting WordPress's maintenance — Moderoo rebuilds your site from nothing but the address:
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Paste your Wix address
Click Rebuild my Wix site instead above. No exports, no importers, no hosting setup.
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AI rebuilds it as your own
Design, text, and photos are recreated as a clean, editable website — usually in a few minutes. Change anything afterwards by chatting.
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Connect your domain and publish
Keep the domain you have, publish from $9.99/mo flat — hosting, updates, backups, and SSL are handled for you.
Can you transfer a Wix site to WordPress directly?
No. Wix is a closed platform: there's no export of your pages, design, or theme in any format WordPress can import. "Wix to WordPress migration" always means rebuilding the site on WordPress and moving the content across by hand — every migration service you can hire is doing exactly that, at $500–$2,000 a job.
One partial exception: blog posts. Wix publishes an RSS feed of your blog, and WordPress's importer can read it — titles, text, and publish dates come across, though formatting and images usually need cleanup afterwards. Pages, galleries, forms, bookings, and everything about how your site looks must be recreated manually.
Your domain is yours either way: once migrated, you point it at your new host — same as you would with any Wix alternative.
The full Wix → WordPress migration, step by step
Committed to WordPress? This is the honest version of the work:
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Buy hosting and install WordPress
Pick a host (realistically $10–25/mo once intro pricing ends), install WordPress, set up SSL, and create an admin account you'll need to keep secure from day one.
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Choose and configure a theme
Nothing will match your Wix design out of the box. Expect to buy a theme (~$60) or spend days in a page builder recreating your layout block by block.
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Move your content
Import blog posts via the RSS importer, then copy every page's text by hand and re-upload your images (save them from your live site first — Wix won't hand them over).
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Rebuild the extras
Forms, bookings, galleries, and SEO settings each need a plugin — most with free tiers and paid upsells. Keep your URL slugs identical where you can, and expect some search-ranking shuffle while Google re-crawls.
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Point your domain — and start maintaining
Update your DNS, cancel Wix, and take over what Wix used to do invisibly: core updates, plugin updates, backups, and security are now your job every month.
What WordPress ownership really means
WordPress is genuinely powerful — and genuinely a responsibility. The honest trade:
You run the infrastructure
Hosting, SSL, backups, and staging are yours to choose, pay for, and fix at 2am when they break.
You own security and updates
WordPress powers ~40% of the web, which makes it the most attacked platform on it. Skipped updates are how sites get hacked.
Every feature is a plugin
Forms, SEO, caching, bookings — each one more thing to update, and plugin conflicts are a WordPress rite of passage.
Total control, if you want the job
If you'll genuinely use custom code, complex plugins, or full data ownership, WordPress earns its keep. Most small-business sites never do.
How much you actually save by skipping both
The honest math, using US list prices as of mid-2026: staying on Wix Core costs $29/mo. A realistic WordPress setup runs $10–25/mo for decent hosting — before a premium theme, paid plugins, or the hours you'll spend maintaining it. Moderoo Starter is $9.99/mo flat, with hosting, SSL, updates, blog, booking, and SEO tools included — and edits are a chat message, not a page builder.
See your Wix site rebuilt before you decide
Paste your address and compare the result against a WordPress quote. You'll see your one-time rebuild price (from $9.99) before we build anything.
One-time rebuild from $9.99, quoted before we build. Hosting from $9.99/mo.
Wix to WordPress — frequently asked questions
Is there a plugin that migrates Wix to WordPress automatically?
No plugin can export what Wix doesn't expose. Tools that claim one-click migration scrape your live pages and paste the text into WordPress — you still rebuild the design, and the markup they produce is usually messy. The RSS importer for blog posts is the only clean automated path.
Will I lose my Google rankings if I move?
Some movement is normal on any replatform. You protect yourself by keeping page URLs as close as possible, keeping titles and content intact, and submitting a fresh sitemap. Moderoo publishes a sitemap and per-page metadata automatically; on WordPress you'll set this up with an SEO plugin.
Can I keep my domain?
Yes — domains are never locked to Wix. You either transfer the registration or simply repoint DNS at your new site. Moderoo walks you through both, or you can connect a domain you already own during publish.
What does WordPress really cost per year?
Budget $120–300/yr for hosting after intro pricing, plus a theme (~$60 once) and any paid plugins. The bigger cost is time: updates, backups, and the occasional broken plugin are recurring work. Moderoo is $120/yr flat with all of that handled.
When is WordPress genuinely the right call?
If you need custom code, a large content operation with many editors, or full control over your stack and data — WordPress is excellent and worth its maintenance. If you need a professional business site with a blog and bookings, it's more machine than the job requires.