Moving off Wix

There’s no export.
We do it anyway.

Wix doesn’t give you your site back. That makes it the most hands-on of the website moves we do, and the one where the inventory matters most.

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Foothills Digital—Sentrello Premier Partner

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • DigitalOcean
  • On-premises Linux
  • On-premises Windows

Every one of our people holds active certifications on the platforms they work on.

Sentrello is our only partnership. On the clouds, it's our people who hold the certifications. We don't claim a partner tier, and we'll keep saying so until that changes.

Where this usually starts

You can’t take it with you

Here’s the honest version of the Wix problem. Better to hear it before you start than halfway through.

  • There’s no full-site export. Whatever you built stays where you built it.
  • You can export the blog. The pages around it, mostly not.
  • The layout only exists inside the Wix editor, so none of it is portable.
  • URLs follow Wix conventions, and search engines know every one of them.
  • Your domain is often registered through Wix as well, which adds a step nobody sees coming.

What we do instead

We recover it from the live site, carefully

A structured crawl of every published page gives us the text, media and metadata. That becomes a real content model on Strapi, Payload CMS or a custom build, and every Wix URL gets a redirect, so the rankings you’ve built up over the years come with you. It’s more work than the other website moves. We’d rather tell you now than discover it together in week two.

How it works

How a Wix move goes

  1. Crawl and inventory

    Every published page, with its text, images and metadata. Once Wix is gone this inventory is the only full record of the site, so we build it properly.

  2. Pull what can be exported

    Blog posts and any store catalog come out through the routes Wix does provide. Everything else comes from the crawl.

  3. Rebuild on your platform

    With a content model, on hosting defined as code. The design gets rebuilt rather than traced, because nothing about a Wix layout transfers.

  4. Redirect every Wix URL

    One to one, checked as a build gate. On a Wix move, nothing else in the project protects more of what you’ve built.

  5. Move the domain, then cut over

    Including the transfer out of Wix if the domain lives there. We take this step slowly and on purpose, since it’s the one that’s awkward to undo.

What comes across

Related

  • Platform Migration

    Applications, infrastructure, the legacy system nobody dares switch off, and every CMS from WordPress to Joomla. However old it is and whatever it’s called, if your business runs on it, we can move it.

    Read more about Platform Migration

  • Application Development

    A two-screen booking tool or the system your whole company runs on. One team from the first whiteboard to the fortieth patch, so nobody inherits code they’ve never seen.

    Read more about Application Development

  • Sentrello

    Sentrello is a self-hosted, source-available unified business management platform. We’re a Sentrello Premier Partner, and our own invoices, net terms and subscriptions all come out of it.

    Read more about Sentrello

How many published pages?

On a Wix move the page count is the estimate, because so much of the work happens page by page.

Send us the domain and we’ll run the crawl ourselves before quoting anything. You keep the inventory whatever you decide.

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