Transferring Wix to WordPress: what actually transfers, and the three ways people try
“Transfer Wix to WordPress”, “move Wix to WordPress” and “transfer from Wix to WordPress” are the searches that show Decamp's guide in Google without anyone clicking. The honest answer to all three starts with a sentence from Wix itself.
What Wix says
Wix's help page on the request reads: “Currently, it is not possible to export blog posts to other platforms.” It is filed as a feature request with no date (Wix help, read 2 November 2026). The page's only suggestion is sharing posts on social media. Whatever a guide calls a “transfer”, it is a workaround.
The three workarounds
1. The RSS feed
The popular tutorial: take the blog's RSS feed and load it with WordPress's RSS importer. When we looked at Wix feeds in October 2026 they carried the 20 latest posts and, for current blogs, links rather than full text. A blog with 141 posts would come over as 20 stubs. Images in whatever text does arrive still point at Wix's servers, and WordPress does not copy them into your media library on its own.
2. Copy and paste
Reliable and slow: open each post, copy it, paste it into the WordPress editor, re-upload the images. It is fine for 15 posts. At 141 posts and 733 images (the size of one real Wix blog we exported) it is days of work, and the order and dates are yours to fix.
3. Read the published site
A Wix blog is public, so the posts, with full text, categories, tags and SEO fields, can be read the way a visitor's browser reads them and written into a WordPress import file (WXR) with the images attached. That is what Decamp does. In our tests the file imported into a real WordPress with images in the media library; the exception is anything a published page does not expose.
What does not transfer, whichever way you go
- The design. WordPress means choosing a theme; nothing visual carries over.
- Stores, bookings, member areas and forms. These are Wix apps, not content (products have their own CSV: what it leaves out).
- Comments, in most routes.
Before the domain moves
- Count posts, pages and images first, so you know which route is realistic.
- Keep Wix alive until you have checked the imported images and links in WordPress.
- Wix post URLs look like
/post/<slug>; WordPress uses its own permalink structure. Either match it or write 301 redirects, or the old links in Google 404. See the Wix URLs a redirect map forgets.
The inventory is free. See the Wix to WordPress guide for what the paid export contains.
Paste a Wix address to count posts, pages and images for free.