Transferring Wix to WordPress. As Quick as the Blink of Eyes
Many people who want to have a web presence online might think over two solutions: Wix and WordPress. Both platforms are widely used for building amazing do-it-yourself websites with no significant programming knowledge.
Wix is free and dynamic website builder with the help of which even novice users can easily create gorgeous websites with just a few mouse clicks. There is no need in having prior designing or coding skills. Wix is a visually-oriented platform - specifically it suits better for those who need lots of pictures posted on the page (photographers, designers, musicians and others). The most distinctive feature to keep in mind between Wix and WordPress is that Wix is considered to be a website, where you can sign up and easily create a web page. If you are ready to invest some amount of money - you can get your own web address (domain name). Although Wix offers tons of great features and hundreds of stunning templates, there are some drawbacks that may bother you. Wix is notorious for not being SEO compatible that means it would be much more difficult to achieve higher SEO rankings. Moreover, some people may not like the fact that they need to pay for the site being published.
Alternatively, WordPress is a powerful and flexible CMS with the help of which you can create any type of website. The platform is mistakenly considered being only blogging-oriented, however, its functionality certainly isn’t limited only by blogs creating, but everything from personal web pages to complex web applications. It provides a huge number of plugins and themes which help to customize the site without any programming background. One more speak-for-itself advantage is that Google loves WordPress mainly because its sites for the most part are built with clean code and the default templates you start with are free of bloat.
To wrap it all up, WordPress certainly takes the cake in terms of power, flexibility, functionality and SEO perspective.
If you are currently running your Wix website, but feel that its not compatible due to the limited functions - give a try to WordPress. You shouldn’t be afraid of any migration hassles - you may easily move all your data from Wix to WordPress completely hands-off. CMS2CMS online service allows to do the conversion automatedly in a few straightforward steps. There is no need in setting up any additional software or using codes and scripts. All you need is to follow the next instructions one-by-one:
Firstly, new CMS2CMS account should be set up. It may easily be done on the official website www.cms2cms.com. It’s possible to do that by means of Facebook or Google as well;
Secondly, your Source and Target Sites should be specified - choose Wix as your current type and WordPress as new. Type in the URLs of your Wix and WordPress websites.
Thirdly, the Connection Bridge should be installed between sites. When finished, return to migration wizard and complete the process by pressing the “Verify Connections to your Sites” button.
Fourthly, information about Migration Preferences should be provided. It’s necessary to point out that the service allows make URLs SEO friendly, to transfer not only information, but also media content, to get design suggestions.
Fifthly, Demo Migration is suggested to run, for you to see how the tool works. It takes only a few minutes and gives the possibility to estimate the new visual look of a new site.
If you are completely satisfied with the Demo Migration results - start Full
Migration by pressing the matching button. After that your Wix website data will be converted WordPress.
That’s it! Enjoy the results of migration and use new possibilities to make your project more successful.