The usual trigger is not dissatisfaction with how the site looks. It is hitting a limit — something you need the site to do that the platform will not let you do.
Wix is genuinely good at what it does. If your site is a handful of pages and a contact form and it works, moving costs money and buys little. The honest reasons to move are specific: you need an integration the platform does not support, you want control over how the site is built, or you have outgrown what the editor allows.
What does not transfer automatically is the design. Wix sites are built in a proprietary editor, so the layout has to be rebuilt rather than exported — which is usually the largest single piece of work, and the thing people are most surprised by.
What can transfer cleanly is the content and, importantly, the URLs. Keeping those is what protects the rankings you already have, and it is the part most migrations get wrong.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectPages, posts, images and metadata pulled across and checked. Volume decides whether this is automated or partly manual.
Every existing address either kept or redirected. This is the single most important step for not losing traffic.
The layout reproduced, or improved if you want it to be. Nothing carries over from the Wix editor itself.
Contact forms, booking widgets and anything embedded has to be re-provided, often with a different tool.
Where the domain is registered with Wix it needs moving or pointing carefully — and email, if it runs through them, must not break.
Switched over, then monitored for broken links and crawl errors for the following weeks.
There is no clean export from Wix. Anybody quoting a one-day migration has not accounted for rebuilding the design.
Wix handles updates and hosting for you. On WordPress that becomes somebody's job — ours, if you want — and it is a real ongoing cost to weigh.
If you cannot name the specific thing Wix prevents you doing, you probably do not need to move yet. We will tell you that.
A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
Five separate legacy CMS sites, five databases and five themes, consolidated into a single multilingual multisite CMS platform.
Ecommerce · Product configuratorA bespoke configuration module built on top of a standard ecommerce platform, so customers can order hand-made furniture built to their own measurements.
That answer decides whether moving is worth it. Send us the address and we will tell you what the migration would involve — including when staying put is the sensible call.