Rift Systems
Rift Systems distributes seismic and geotechnical monitoring instruments across the US and Canada. We replaced their basic Wix site with a WordPress catalogue, advanced filtering and an RFQ wizard built for engineers.
Wix to WordPress Migration
Wix has no export, so leaving means a rebuild. We rebuild your site in WordPress, carry every page and post across and keep your search traffic.
Your blog can't leave Wix on its own
Wix is a quick way to get online. The editor is friendly, and a small site can be live in a weekend.
Most of Wix’s limits appear when you try to leave. Wix has no site export. Its own help centre says blog posts can’t be exported to another platform. Once you start editing a template, you can’t swap it. A new look means a new site. Bookings, memberships and other extras usually arrive as App Market apps, each with its own plan.
So we rebuild the site in WordPress and move the content across, post by post.
Rebuilt piece by piece
Signs you've outgrown Wix
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The app bill keeps growing
Each new feature is another monthly plan from the App Market.
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You want a new design
On Wix, that means building a new site.
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Your blog has years of posts
And Wix has no way to export them.
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Your store has outgrown Wix Stores
B2B pricing, complex shipping, or a catalogue you manage in spreadsheets.
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You need a real integration
Your CRM, booking system or ERP should talk to the site directly.
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You want to own the build
Code, content and hosting in your name. Any WordPress developer can work on it.
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Built alongside your Wix site
Your Wix plan keeps running until the domain moves. After launch we unpublish the Wix version, so Google only sees one copy.
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Discovery
Every page, post, product, form and app listed, with Search Console data on what brings traffic.
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Plan
A URL map, a content plan and a WordPress replacement for every Wix app.
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Design
Your current look carried over, or refreshed. Two rounds of revisions on the homepage and two on inner pages.
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Build and migrate
Built on a private copy. Posts moved by hand, products and contacts imported from Wix's exports.
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Test
Links, forms and checkout checked before the domain moves.
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Launch and training
We switch the domain, unpublish the Wix site and train your team on the new editor.
What you have after the move
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A site in your name
Code, content and hosting you control, with no premium plan to renew.
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Every post carried across
Blog posts moved one by one, with their dates, authors and images.
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Products and customers imported
Wix's product, order and contact exports loaded into WooCommerce.
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Links that still work
/post/ and /product-page/ addresses kept, everything else redirected.
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Apps replaced with plugins
Forms, bookings and memberships running on your own hosting.
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Care from $147 a month
Updates, backups and security after launch, if you want us to look after it.
Don't take our word for it
“You guys have done a great job so far.”
What leaving Wix did for Rift Systems
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55.7k
Search impressions in nine months
Rift Systems after leaving Wix (Search Console, December 2025 to September 2026).
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5
Manufacturers on one catalogue
Rift Systems, all on the same WordPress build (riftsys.com/brands, October 2026).
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8 to 12 weeks
Typical timeline
From discovery to launch for most Wix sites.
- Have a project in mind?
Plugins in place of App Market plans
WordPress runs over 40% of the web, so most Wix apps have a plugin that does the same job.
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Change the design any time
Pages and posts stay put when the theme changes.
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Export whenever you like
WordPress has a built-in export, and the database is yours.
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Features without app plans
Bookings, memberships, multilingual sites and larger stores are common WordPress builds.
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Any developer can pick it up
It's standard WordPress, so you're never tied to one agency.
Before you leave Wix
What Wix lets you take
Physical products, orders and contacts export as spreadsheets (CSV), up to 5,000 rows per file. Digital products don’t export, and neither do blog posts, pages or layouts. Those are rebuilt and moved by hand. If you bought a logo through Wix, download the files before you close the account.
Leaving Wix in the right order
Launch the WordPress site and point your domain at it first. A domain bought through Wix can stay there or transfer out, except within 60 days of buying it or changing its owner details. Business email through Wix keeps working, and Wix support can move its billing to Google. Then cancel the premium plan. The old site stays online at a free wixsite.com address with Wix ads, so unpublish it. Wix only refunds a plan cancelled within 14 days of first buying it.
When to stay on Wix
If the site is a few pages, does what you need and your team likes editing it, stay. Move once you’re paying for apps to fill gaps, or when it’s time for a redesign.
The tools behind a Wix move
Audit and discovery
- Screaming Frog
- Ahrefs
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics 4
Build and content
- WordPress (custom theme or Beaver Builder)
- Advanced Custom Fields Pro
- Gravity Forms
- WooCommerce
Migration and SEO protection
- Product
- order and contact import from Wix's CSV exports
- URL matching and redirects
- SEOPress
- pre- and post-launch ranking checks
Performance and security
- Cloudflare
- Perfmatters with server-level caching (Nginx and Redis)
- optimised hosting
- image optimisation
Questions about moving from Wix
The answers to your questions. Get in touch if you can't find what you're looking for.
No one can. Wix has no site export, and blog posts can’t be exported at all. Products, orders and contacts come out as CSV files. Everything else is rebuilt and moved by hand.
Mostly, yes. WordPress can keep Wix’s /post/ and /product-page/ addresses. Anything that has to change gets a 301 redirect, a permanent pointer Google follows. Expect a few weeks of movement while Google recrawls.
Yes. We can match the look you have, or use the move to fix what isn’t working. It’s rebuilt in WordPress either way.
Yes. Physical products, categories and orders come across to WooCommerce from Wix’s exports. Digital products don’t export, so we add those by hand.
Each one gets a WordPress replacement. Most are standard plugins. A few need custom work, and we’ll tell you which before you sign.
Your domain stays yours. If you bought it through Wix, it can stay there or transfer out once the 60-day lock has passed. Email through Wix’s Google Workspace keeps working.
After the new site is live and the domain points to it. Then unpublish the Wix site, because it stays online at a wixsite.com address after the plan ends.
8 to 12 weeks for most sites. Larger stores and custom features take longer.
Most Wix sites cost $8,000 to $15,000. There’s no export to start from, so it’s priced as a rebuild, with a fixed quote after discovery.
Care plans start at $147 a month for updates, backups and security. Some clients look after the site themselves, and you’re never locked in.
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