You cannot fully migrate a WordPress site to Wix. No website builder can automatically transfer everything from one platform to another. WordPress and Wix handle content, pages, and features in completely different ways. While Wix allows importing blog posts, most of your site – including pages, menus, layouts, media, and custom functionality – would need to be rebuilt manually.
A good question to ask yourself is: Do you really want to move from a downloadable website builder, where you have access to your files and content, to a hosted, locked platform where you have none of that access? Price hikes are common, see: Wix’s Price Hike: Is it Time to Consider a Downloadable Solution? Even if you are happy with the limited website builder because it is easier than WordPress, simply wanting to change your web hosting, whether it be because of a price increase or downtime or slow speeds, you would face the same problem again: starting over and rebuilding your site from scratch. Switching website builders is forced, because hosted platforms like Wix tie hosting and builder together. But now, you wouldn’t even have a backup of your website, files and content, because hosted platforms like Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, do not give you that kind of access.
If you want something simpler, you don’t have to stray from downloadable. With a self-hosted builder like UltimateWB, you get true ownership, flexibility, and freedom – the kind of control that hosted platforms cannot provide.
Related: The Wix Redesign Trap: Why Starting Over is Their Business Model, Not Yours
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