How to Move Your Website Off Wix When You Can't Export It

You can't lift a Wix site and set it down on another host. Wix says a Wix site "needs to be hosted and operated on Wix's servers" (hosting means the company whose computers show your site to visitors), so leaving means rebuilding the site somewhere else, then pointing your domain at the new copy and cancelling Wix. There are four ways to do the rebuild, compared below. SiteFree, our own service, does the done-for-you version for C$99 or C$199 once, for the first 20 sites.

Why you can't just export it

Wix's own help page draws the line in two sentences. The content you build on Wix belongs to you. And "the SaaS architecture does not support external hosting", which means no other host can run the site itself.

Wix's newer Studio Two editor can export a site as React code (website source code meant for developers), and Wix calls the feature beta. The exported site still loads fonts and media from Wix and calls Wix for business features, and Wix says a Studio Two site with dynamic pages can't be exported. What Wix does and doesn't let you take is its own page.

Blogs are the sore spot. As of November 2026, Wix's help center says "Currently, it is not possible to export blog posts to other platforms." The blog's RSS feed (the subscription feed readers use to follow a blog) shows only the 20 most recent posts. Wix describes the feed as a way for readers to follow the blog, not as a way to move it. Whichever route you choose, ask how it will handle your blog posts, and ask for a count of how many you have.

What it costs to stay, and to leave

As of 2026-11-10, loaded from Montreal, Wix's plans page listed Light at 21 CAD a month and Core at 33 CAD a month at the standard price (a first-term sale was halving Core that week), for yearly plans paid in full, before taxes. That is about C$252 and C$396 a year. Your own account page shows what you pay; plans vary by location and change over time.

Wix says a plan bought on sale renews at the standard rate, and that yearly plans can be charged up to three weeks before they expire. Your account page shows your own renewal date. Why the bill rises is covered in Why Is My Wix Bill So High?

Leaving removes the plan fee. Your domain is a separate cost: Wix says its free domain voucher covers only the first year of registration, so check what renewal costs where your domain lives, and add any mailbox you pay for. A website with no monthly fees sorts out what stays on the bill.

Four ways to rebuild it

The first route depends on the builder you pick. The second depends on who you find. The third is real, and it asks you to handle the hosting, the domain switch and the checks yourself. The fourth is what we sell. We have left the price of the first two blank on purpose: it depends on the builder you pick and who you hire, and we would rather say so than guess.

Will I lose the site and start over?

Whichever route you choose, ask four things before you agree: will I see the new site before the domain switches, does the old site stay live until I approve, who rebuilds the blog posts, and who sets up the redirects from the old addresses. On a SiteFree move, in that order: you see a private preview before anything switches, the old site stays live until you approve, your published blog posts are copied from your public site and moved over, and we set up the redirects. A full refund is available until you approve. The rebuild matches your design closely; it is not an exact copy.

Some things need more than a copy. On a SiteFree move, your contact form keeps sending to your inbox, and sign-up or booking embeds from Mailchimp, Calendly or Jotform come along at no charge. A feature Wix ran itself, such as a Wix booking calendar, is a flat C$49 add-on each. A shop or a member area goes in a bigger plan with a fixed quote.

Editing afterwards

This is the biggest change, so here it is plainly. Whatever you move to, ask how you will see a change before it goes live and how you will undo it. On Wix you edit in the editor, and saving does not make a change live; publishing does. The editor has a Preview button, every site has a link you can share for feedback before you publish, and Site History lets you restore a saved or published version, which Wix says erases the changes made after it.

On a SiteFree site every change starts on a copy, and every change is kept so it can be undone. That is how a professional developer sets a site up, and you get it without learning or running any of it.

The cost is stated just as plainly. You ask an AI assistant that you subscribe to separately, such as Claude Pro at US$20 a month, or the AI plan you already have. You need a free GitHub account. If you edit twice a year, you can stop the assistant plan in between. You can also hire any web developer.

What happens to your domain

Your domain (the address people type, like yourbusiness.ca) is separate from the site. Wix says you can keep it registered at Wix and use another provider's nameservers. Nameservers are the settings that tell the internet which company answers for your address. Wix says to unassign the domain from your Wix site before changing them, and that the change can take up to 48 hours to appear worldwide. If your domain is registered somewhere other than Wix, follow that registrar's own steps.

Moving the registration is also possible. Wix says you unlock the domain, use the code it emails to the registrant (the contact email on the domain), and finish with the new registrar, which usually takes up to 7 days. Wix also says that if you transfer the domain away, your Wix site is disconnected. A domain can't be transferred within 60 days of purchase. Moving a Wix domain to Cloudflare has the steps.

Check email before you change anything. Wix says its mailboxes and email routing stop working after a nameserver change unless the new provider has the right records (the email settings, called MX records, that route mail to your mailbox). On a SiteFree move, your email settings are checked before anything switches.

Old links and Google

Every old page address has to point somewhere after the move, or visitors and other sites' links hit an error. A redirect is an instruction that sends anyone who asks for an old address to the matching new page. Wix blog posts sit at addresses like www.sitename.com/post/post-title, and Wix says the "post" part can be renamed but not removed entirely, so unless the new site uses the same path, every old blog address needs a redirect. Whichever route you choose, ask who sets the redirects up. No one can promise a search ranking, and redirects don't either. On a SiteFree move we redirect every old address to its new page, so search results, bookmarks and links keep working.

The order to do it in

1. Check the renewal date on your Wix account, and note which domain provider you use.
2. Choose a route and have the new site built and previewed while the old one stays live.
3. Check email settings, then switch the domain, and allow up to 48 hours for a nameserver change or up to 7 days for a transfer.
4. Cancel the Wix plan once the new site is live, and check on your account page what happens to the domain.

The done-for-you option

SiteFree sells this move. We are a Canadian migration service in Montreal, with prices in Canadian dollars. We move Wix, Squarespace and WordPress sites; Webflow is in beta. The same move is described for Squarespace, Webflow and WordPress.

Small covers up to 5 pages plus one blog or other section: C$99 one time for the first 20 sites, then C$360. Large covers up to 100 pages: C$199 for the first 20, then C$720. A shop, a member area or over 100 pages is a fixed quote. Your private preview arrives within two business days of payment (three to four for WordPress), with up to two rounds of fixes.

You keep the domain, and the site lives in your own Cloudflare account and your own GitHub account, both free. It is served from Cloudflare's global network, not from a Canadian host. You can check your site for a page count and a price before you decide.