Wix is one of the most common starting points on the web, and one of the most common places people want to leave. Once a business needs real SEO control, WooCommerce, custom plugins, or simply ownership of its hosting, WordPress becomes the natural destination. The blocker is almost never the decision — it is the design. Wix gives you no theme file, no template export, and no way to carry your layout across.
Why Wix is hard to migrate manually
Wix renders pages from its own proprietary editor and serves markup that is generated at runtime, with obfuscated class names, absolutely positioned sections, and animation logic wired to Wix's own JavaScript. There is no "download my site" button. The official export is limited to a blog CSV, which carries text but not a single pixel of your design.
That leaves two traditional options: rebuild the design from scratch in a WordPress page builder, or pay an agency for a design-to-code conversion. Both cost days or weeks, and both usually produce something that only approximates the original.
The faster route: capture the rendered page
Themify works from the other end. Instead of trying to reverse-engineer Wix's editor data, it reads the page exactly as your browser has already rendered it — final HTML, computed CSS, resolved fonts, downloaded images, and the animations currently running — then packages all of it as a self-contained WordPress theme .zip. Everything happens locally in the browser; your site never gets uploaded to a server.
1. Publish your Wix site
The page must be live and publicly reachable, either on a .wixsite.com address or your custom domain. Editor previews behind a Wix login cannot be captured.
2. Open the page in Chrome and let it settle
Wix loads a lot of content lazily. Scroll to the bottom of the page once so hero videos, galleries, and below-the-fold sections have all been fetched and rendered before you capture.
3. Run the Themify extension
Click the Themify icon and press Generate theme. The extension snapshots the rendered DOM, inlines and rewrites every asset reference, and builds a standards-compliant WordPress theme with style.css, template files, and an assets directory.
4. Upload the theme to WordPress
In wp-admin go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, pick the .zip, install and activate. Your Wix design is now a WordPress site you fully control.
What carries over from Wix
- Section layout and positioning, including Wix's absolute-position grids
- All computed CSS, gradients, shadows and media queries
- Scroll-reveal, parallax and hover animations as rendered in the browser
- Images, SVG icons, background videos and favicons
- Web fonts and exact typography scale
- Mobile, tablet and desktop breakpoints
Multi-page Wix sites
Wix sites are usually a handful of pages: home, about, services, contact. Capture each page in turn and Themify assembles them into the same theme, keeping internal links working so navigation behaves the same way it did on Wix.
After the migration
Once the theme is active, you get everything Wix withheld: plugin freedom, schema and technical-SEO control, your own caching and CDN, database access, and the ability to move hosts whenever you like. Point your domain at the new WordPress install, set up redirects for any changed URLs, and the migration is done.
Use it on sites you are allowed to convert
Themify should be used on your own sites, or on sites where the owner has authorized the conversion — for example an agency migrating a client off Wix with the client's consent.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you export a Wix site to WordPress?
- Wix does not offer a WordPress export — you can only export blog posts as a CSV. The practical route is to open your published Wix URL in Chrome and use Themify to convert the rendered page into an installable WordPress theme .zip.
- Will my Wix animations and layout survive the migration?
- Yes. Themify captures the fully rendered page: DOM, CSS, media queries, web fonts, images and the scroll and hover animations Wix generates. The WordPress theme renders what your browser rendered.
- How long does a Wix to WordPress migration take?
- A single page takes a couple of minutes: open the page, click Generate theme, then upload the .zip in Appearance → Themes → Add New. Manual rebuilds of the same design typically take days.
- Do I need a developer to move from Wix to WordPress?
- No. The output is a standard WordPress theme you install from wp-admin. There is no PHP to write and no design-to-code agency to hire.
- Is it allowed to convert a Wix site this way?
- Only convert sites you own or have explicit written permission to convert. Capturing someone else's Wix site without authorization may breach copyright and Wix's terms of service.