301 redirects on Wix: the 5,000 limit, the homepage rule, and the blog gap

Wix has a redirect tool, the URL Redirect Manager, and it is easy to assume it will carry a blog move. It can carry part of one. Here are its limits, taken from Wix's help page “Setting up 301 redirects” as we read it on 4 November 2026.

What the help page says

• 5,000 redirects per site. The page says “You can create a maximum of 5,000 redirects per Wix site.”
• Custom domains only. You can't redirect from a free Wix address (name.wixsite.com/…) to a Premium site.
• No redirect from the homepage in the manager. Wix points to a domain-to-domain redirect for that case.
• No source link with a # in it.
• A few minutes before a new redirect takes effect.
• Deleted redirects “cannot be recovered.” Keep your list in a file you control.
• Group redirects exist for many pages that share a path, such as product pages or blog posts. The page doesn't say whether wildcards are supported, so test one before you rely on it.

The blog gap

When you change a page's slug after publishing, Wix creates a 301 for you. The page lists where that applies: Editor pages, Stores product and category pages, Bookings services, Online Programs and Wix Events. Wix Blog pages are not on the list, and the page says they get no automatic redirect, so you must create one manually. For a blog that matters twice: renaming a post doesn't protect its old link, and a blog with more than a few thousand posts, categories and archive pages can reach the 5,000 ceiling on its own.

Where this tool stops being useful

The manager only works while the domain is still connected to Wix. If you move the domain to WordPress, Ghost or Webflow, Wix is no longer answering for it, so its redirect list does nothing. The redirects have to live on the new host: a _redirects file, an .htaccess, a plugin, or the platform's own redirect panel. Two cases where the Wix manager still helps:

• You keep the old Wix site running on its domain for a while and send selected paths to a new domain. The help page allows an external page as the target if you enter the full URL.
• You rebuild inside Wix and change slugs. Automatic redirects cover pages and products, but not blog posts.

A checklist

1. List every URL from the sitemap, not from the RSS feed (see the Wix URLs your redirect map forgets).
2. Count them. If the list is near 5,000, plan for pattern rules on the new host instead of one-by-one entries.
3. Decide the homepage case separately; it can't be a single redirect in the manager.
4. Save the list as a file before you delete anything in Wix.
5. After the switch, run the old URLs through the redirect checker: each should be one 301 to a 200.

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