How To Convert Wix Website To Wordpress (2024) Full Guide

How to Connect Wix website to WordPress

Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'll be showing you how you can connect any Wix website to your WordPress dashboard

Now, a lot of people wonder, hey, WordPress is so difficult to use when I'm trying to blog

And it can be so much easier if I could just use Wix

However, WordPress has so many amazing tools that you want to really use the platform

and I'll show you guys how you can make your WordPress website look like it came from Wix

because we're actually going to import our Wix website. So let's get into it

Now, the first thing you're going to do is actually build your Wix website

I have a few sample websites ready, but I want to build a new website

So let's go in together and click on Create New Site and build a new blog site

Now, keep in mind that we are going to create on the Wix Editor

and I'm just going to be using a template. I'm not going to be customizing it much

because I really like the pre-existing templates. I'm just going to skip through all the questions

and we're going to head on over directly to the name. So let's say this is going to be called Jane Doe

and I'm just going to click on Next over here, click on Skip, and we're just going to browse the template gallery

So I'm going to click on begin with a template, and we're just going to search for a blog template over here

so i'm just going to look at some of the blogging templates these are really good but i'm going to look

for something a bit more yeah this looks really good this is a beauty blog and i really like this i'm

going to click on edit and we're going to create our wicks website that we are then going to import

to wordpress now we're going to be importing to wordpress dot com not wordpress dot org those are two different

things so keep that in mind whenever you're importing because wordpress.org does not really allow you to

import like this or you might be able to import but you will have to do that section by section and via code

so keep that in mind now i am just going to make this about you know whatever beauty salon

whatever and i'm going to click on create site text and it's going to create the text for us and this is

what i love about using wigs is that you don have to do a lot of work at all it super customizable everything is a drag and drop edit away and i can just really do anything i want so i just going to click on this click on the title we had

jane dough a make blog and then i'm just going to click on publish over here click on save and continue

you don't even need to purchase your domain you can use the free domain if you don't mind it and i'm

just going to click on publish now and then i can open up a preview as well and then what you're going to do is

going to head on over back to your dashboard so you can just go into your dashboard to actually manage

the back end of your site now from here once you are satisfied with your preview everything looks good to

you then you're going to go into your WordPress dashboard so this is our WordPress dashboard and you

guys can see I have two WordPress sites but I'm just going to import this website into one of them

now to do this is very simple and easy all you have to do

is log on to WordPress.com. Once you're in WordPress.com, you're going to scroll down on the

bottom left. The third last option is going to be tools. You're going to go into tools over here

And once you're in tools, you're going to click on import. Now, once you click on tools and then

click on import, this is the page that you're going to be created with. Now, in this page

You can choose to import content from WordPress.org, blogger, medium, square space, substack, and wix

Now you can also choose from the full list and there are multiple different options available

So you have some other options as well, but we're going to go with wicks

So I'm just going to go back and click on wix. Now you are going to enter the URL of your wick site

So this is our wick site over here and we're going to copy the..

the URL and then paste it over here. Once you've done that, simply click on continue on the bottom left

Once you click on continue, this will begin actually, you know, scanning the website, how to

import it because there are so many different manageable items. These are structured differently

It's going to show us the page now. It's actually showing that this is a static page currently

and although this is not a static page, I'm going to let it

import the particular site if it still showing a static page to you you can obviously restart the process so you can go on ahead and click on cancel and then you can reenter

your particular site click on continue over here and then it's going to find your site again

now you can do this a couple of times if you just created your wick site it might be a static

page and then also keep in mind that your wick site needs to be published

It needs to be a public Wix site as well. Once you actually see your content, you're going to click on yes, start import, and it will begin importing your Wix site onto WordPress.com

Now, the best part about this is that you can use WordPress.com as a mediator between WordPress org and Wix

So you're going to let this import be completed, and if you were previously building on WordPress org, you can also import that over here

and then it will just be a collaborative website where you have built for multiple different panels

and it can be a creative and an interactive website that is not going to look mediocre

instead it is going to actually reflect the brand aesthetic that you have and you will be able to

promote your brand's uniqueness so you guys can see it's currently importing our posts pages

and media files depending on how much data you have on your website so if you created this

Wix website like a couple of months ago and you've been posting on it and obviously that is going to take a lot more time however if your site is relatively recent and you haven't posted a lot there aren't a lot of files that need to be imported with that then it's going to be easier so we're just going to wait for this to be completed and then we can actually you know see what it's going to look like on the actual WordPress site so I accidentally closed that so we're going to have to re-import our site

but it's going to take not too much time and I'm going to go back into our home page

let's go ahead and just take a look at the site and you can see over here this is just

you know one of our little templates it's obviously currently importing from our

Durdend store this is the store that I actually imported but this is the revert store

home essentials and it currently you know importing items from here so it just a bit of a mishmash but it still completing the import but you can see even if you open it midway you can see the home page the home essentials for sustainable living i pretty sure

this is in the second section on our website and we're just going to wait for this to be completed

now once it has been completed you can click on view site over here and obviously this is going to

sometimes if it's not synced up you're going to have to sync some items up and for that you can go into pages on

bottom left and once you go into pages on your WordPress dashboard you can start

organizing these because obviously when you import from Wix it's a different platform

you're going to click on view page for each individual page and then you can get started with

customization so this is our shop all page and i can click on view page over here and obviously

because this is a particular type of website this is a shop website so it's not going to look or convert

as well as a blog website or a portfolio website would be so make sure to keep that in mind as well but

it's super simple to edit if you want to edit anything you can open up that page so let's take our

policies page over here and you guys can see this is our policies page so i can click on block

and i can get started with selecting any block over here and i can get started with editing it so i

can replace images i can edit the text i can edit the formatting of the text and i can get started with

I can also, you know, edit the image sizes. So I have this image over here

And let's say I want to resize this. So we have our featured image and I might want to delete it

So I can click on delete on any of the items. Then maybe I have this where, you know, the sustainable E is off center or off the actual alignment

So you can change items like this as well. And then behind that

we can add more items if we choose. Let's say we have this image, I can click on image

and then I might want to make it in a gallery format

so it's inserted within. And then on the right side you have, you know

page extras featured images that you can select and more. So in this way you can get started with importing

from Wix to WordPress. I hope you guys found this video helpful

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