About this plugin
Wix has no button to export your blog, and its RSS feed only contains the first lines of each post. Importer for Wix reads your published Wix site the same way a search engine does, and recreates every blog post in WordPress.
You paste the address of your Wix site, check what was found, choose a few options and start. The import runs one post at a time with a progress bar and a live log, and you can pause it and resume it whenever you like.
What is imported
- Every blog post listed in your Wix site’s sitemap, including large blogs with several sitemap pages.
- The content as real WordPress blocks, ready to edit: paragraphs, headings, lists, quotes, images, galleries, separators, code, tables, buttons and embeds such as YouTube or Vimeo.
- Images and the featured image, downloaded to your Media Library in their original size.
- The original publish date and “last updated” date.
- Categories and tags. Missing ones are created with the same name and address as on Wix.
- The excerpt, when you wrote one on Wix.
- The address (slug) of each post, unchanged.
- The name of the original Wix author, kept with the post. Posts are assigned to the WordPress user you choose.
What is not imported
- Static pages, 301 redirects from your old Wix addresses, SEO titles and descriptions, and Wix authors as WordPress users. These are handled by Importer for Wix Pro, a separate plugin. This free plugin has no locked or limited features.
- Blog comments, Wix Stores products, bookings, forms, members, and your site design. A Wix design cannot be turned into a WordPress theme; you choose a theme in WordPress.
- Posts that are password-protected, members-only or unpublished, because they are not visible on the public site.
How to use it
- Go to Tools → Import and click Run Importer under Wix.
- Enter the address of your Wix site, for example https://www.example.com or https://username.wixsite.com/mysite, and click Find posts.
- Check the summary: site name, number of blog posts found, how many were already imported, and whether the site’s robots.txt allows the import.
- Choose who the posts are assigned to, whether they are published or saved as drafts, whether images are downloaded, and whether posts imported before should be updated.
- Click Start import and keep the tab open. You can pause and resume at any time.
- When it is done, the summary lists every post with View and Edit links, plus any warnings, such as an image that could not be downloaded.
Built to be safe on any host
Each request to your server imports a single post or downloads a single image, so the import works on shared hosting without timeouts, even with large photos. The plugin only contacts your Wix site and Wix’s image servers, and never more than about two requests per second to your Wix site. It adds no tracking, loads no external scripts or fonts, and keeps no data after you uninstall it except the posts and images you imported.
External services
com Ltd. It only does so while you are using the importer screen, after you enter an address and click a button.
- The Wix site whose address you enter. Used to check that it is a Wix site and to read its robots.txt file, its sitemap files and the public pages of its blog posts. Requests are made when you click “Find posts” and while an import you started is running.
- static.wixstatic.com and video.wixstatic.com, Wix’s media servers. Used to download the images of the posts being imported, only while an import is running with “Download images to the Media Library” checked.
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Media left on Wix in your imported posts: videos hosted by Wix, and images that were not downloaded (because “Download images to the Media Library” was unchecked or a download failed), keep their Wix address in the post content. com, and Wix receives their IP address and browser details, as with any image or video embedded from another site. To avoid this, keep “Download images to the Media Library” checked, and replace Wix videos with copies uploaded to your Media Library.
YouTube, Vimeo and other embeds are imported as standard WordPress embed blocks, which WordPress itself displays through the provider; the plugin does not contact them.
No other service is contacted by the plugin. It has no analytics, no telemetry and loads no external scripts, styles or fonts.
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; this plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wix.