How to Export a Wix Website: What You Can Actually Take

Wix does not have a full site export. There is no button that hands you your pages, your design, and your code in a folder. What Wix does give you is CSV export of CMS collections such as products, orders, contacts, or a blog feed, and the Wix help center answers the blog question directly: exporting blog posts to other platforms is not currently possible. Your text can be copied, your images have to be downloaded one by one or pulled with a scraper, and your design stays on Wix. Moving off Wix is therefore a rebuild plus a content migration, and the part that decides whether it goes well is the redirect map, not the export.

That is the honest short version. It is also fixable, and thousands of businesses move off Wix every month without damage. The work is mostly bookkeeping done in the right order. Here is the order.

Can you export a website from Wix?

Not as a website. Wix builds pages with its own proprietary rendering rather than standard HTML and CSS you can lift out, so there is nothing to download that another platform could read as a site. This is not an oversight. It is how the platform is designed, and Squarespace and GoDaddy Website Builder are the same in this respect. Wix does export structured data: any CMS collection can come out as a CSV file, which covers products, orders, contacts, form submissions, and blog data stored in a collection. Everything else leaves the platform as text you copy and images you download.

What Wix exports and what it does not

The row that catches people is images. A CSV that references thirty product photos looks like a complete export until you import it somewhere else and every image is a broken link pointing at a Wix server that will stop serving them when you cancel. Download the files first.

How to export a Wix website, step by step

1. Take your Search Console Pages report first. Open Google Search Console, go to the Pages or Performance report, set the date range to the last twelve months, and export the list of URLs with clicks and impressions. This is the single most valuable file in the whole migration, because it tells you which pages actually earn traffic and therefore which URLs must survive. Do it before anything else, because you lose access to nothing but you gain the map.
2. Crawl your own site. Run a free crawler over your Wix domain and save every URL, title tag, and meta description. You want the complete URL list, not the one in your navigation menu, because old pages nobody links to are often the ones with backlinks.
3. Export every CMS collection to CSV. Products, orders, contacts, form submissions, bookings data, and any custom collection. Open each one in the dashboard and use the export option. Save them somewhere that is not your laptop desktop.
4. Download your media. Go through the Wix media manager and download original files at full resolution. If the media manager fights you, save images directly from the live pages. Full resolution matters, because the versions Wix serves on the page are compressed for the web and will look soft if you reuse them.
5. Copy the words. Open every page and paste the copy into a document, one heading per page, keeping the title tag and meta description with it. This is the part people skip and the part that later costs them weeks, because copy is what actually took the time when the site was built.
6. Pull your blog out. There is no clean path. Copy posts manually if there are a few dozen, or pull them from the site RSS feed if there are hundreds, which gives you title, date, and body in a machine readable form you can convert to a WordPress import file.
7. Sort out the domain before you cancel anything. If you registered the domain through Wix, unlock it in the domain settings, request the authorization code, and transfer it to a registrar you control. Registrars usually impose a sixty day lock after registration or a previous transfer, so start this early. If your domain is registered elsewhere and merely pointed at Wix, you only need to change DNS when the new site is ready.
8. Build the new site and keep it unpublished. Do not cancel Wix while you build. Two subscriptions for one month is the cheapest insurance in this entire process.

How to transfer a Wix website to WordPress

WordPress is the most common destination, and the honest description is that you are not transferring, you are rebuilding with imported content. There is no official Wix to WordPress migration. Third party plugins and paid services exist that scrape the live Wix site and create WordPress posts and pages from it, and they vary in quality: they typically capture text and images reasonably well and capture design not at all. Budget for a theme and for someone to make the imported pages look intentional.

Two things decide whether the WordPress version is better or just different. First, whether you keep the URL structure, which is a choice you make and not something the platform decides for you. Second, whether you are prepared to own updates, plugins, backups, and security, because that is the ongoing cost people underestimate when they leave a hosted builder. If the reason you are leaving Wix is that the site is dated and slow to change, a self-hosted stack solves the wrong half of the problem. That trade-off, and what the word export means on every major platform, is laid out on our website builder export and lock-in page.

How to move a Wix site without losing your Google rankings

Rankings attach to URLs and to your domain, not to your platform. If the domain stays the same and every URL either stays the same or gets a 301 redirect to its closest replacement, you keep what you have earned. If old URLs start returning 404s, you lose it, and you lose it fastest on exactly the pages that were working.

Match the old slug wherever you can. Where you cannot, map each old URL to the single most relevant new page and set a 301 redirect, one at a time, from that Search Console export you took in step one. Never bulk redirect everything to the homepage. Google treats a mass redirect to the root as a soft 404 and it wipes out the equity you were trying to preserve. Keep the title tags that are already ranking rather than improving them on launch day, because changing platform and titles at once means you cannot tell which change caused what.

After the switch, submit the new sitemap in Search Console, use the URL inspection tool on your ten most important pages, and expect two to six weeks of fluctuation while Google recrawls. Watch it rather than react to it. It helps to track the positions of your top twenty keywords weekly through the transition, because a genuine problem shows up as a sustained drop on the pages you redirected, while normal recrawl noise moves everything a little and settles. The full redirect and verification sequence is worked through step by step in our guide to moving a site without losing rankings, and it applies to a move off Wix just as well.

How much does it cost to move off Wix?

The export costs nothing. The rebuild is the bill. A five to ten page brochure site is a weekend of copy and paste plus whatever the new platform charges. A site with a hundred blog posts and a product catalog is a project: US migration specialists commonly quote in the low thousands for content migration alone, and a full redesign with a freelancer or a small shop runs roughly $5,000 to $20,000, with content and approvals eating more of the calendar than design.

The reason those numbers are so high is that most of the work is writing, not building. Somebody has to produce every page again. That is the part an AI agent removes: describe the business in plain language and it decides the page structure, designs the layout, writes the copy for each page, sets titles and meta descriptions, generates a sitemap, and publishes on your domain, which turns the expensive stretch of a migration into an afternoon. If the reason you are leaving Wix is that the site never gets updated because updating it is a chore, the relevant comparison is not Wix against WordPress, it is rebuilding versus restyling, and we compared the options honestly on our Wix alternative page.

Common questions

Does Wix let you export your website?

No, not as a website. Wix exports CMS collections such as products, contacts, and form submissions as CSV files. It does not export your design, your page structure, or any HTML and CSS, and its help center states that exporting blog posts to other platforms is not currently possible. Plan on copying text and downloading images yourself.

How do I export my Wix website design?

You cannot. Wix design is not portable and there is no format it comes out in. The practical approach is to screenshot every page at desktop and mobile widths and keep those as reference for whoever rebuilds. Note your fonts, hex colors, and logo files separately, because those are the assets that carry your brand across the move.

Can I export my Wix site to HTML?

Not through Wix. Third party scrapers can save a static copy of the rendered pages, which produces something that looks like your site and works like a snapshot: no CMS, no working forms, and every future edit is a file edit. For a business that will need to change a price or add a service page next month, that is rarely worth doing.

How do I transfer a Wix website to another account?

That is a different operation from exporting and Wix does support it. Within Wix you can transfer site ownership to another Wix account from the site dashboard, which is how agencies hand a finished site to a client. It moves the site inside Wix. It does not get your site off Wix.

Will I lose my Google rankings if I leave Wix?

Only if you break your URLs. Keep the same domain, keep slugs identical where you can, and 301 redirect every URL that changes to its closest equivalent using your Search Console Pages report as the source list. Expect two to six weeks of movement while Google recrawls. Redirecting everything to the homepage is the mistake that actually loses traffic.

What should I export before I cancel Wix?

Your Search Console Pages report for the last twelve months, a full crawl of your URLs with titles and metas, every CMS collection as CSV, your contacts and form submissions, all original images at full resolution, and the copy from every page. Do all of it before you cancel, because a cancelled site stops serving its own images and text within days.