Wix is one of the easiest ways to get a website live without touching code, but it’s also a closed platform — there’s no official way to export your design if you ever decide to leave.
Traditionally, that meant anyone migrating off Wix had to pick a brand-new WordPress theme and rebuild their site’s look from scratch, losing the design they’d already put time into.
PressMeGPT changes that: it can scan your live Wix site and turn its actual design into a real, installable WordPress theme.
Why Migrate From Wix to WordPress?
The design lock-in is the biggest reason this migration is worth doing carefully. Since Wix doesn’t offer a real export, most traditional migration paths (like importing your content through an RSS feed) bring over your pages and posts but not your actual layout — you end up picking a new theme and starting the design over. That’s the exact problem PressMeGPT solves, since it works by reading your live site rather than relying on an export Wix doesn’t provide.
Beyond the design itself, WordPress simply gives you more room to grow. Wix’s app market has a few hundred integrations; WordPress has thousands of plugins covering everything from SEO and forms to marketing automation and e-commerce, most of them free.
Content publishing is stronger on WordPress too — if blogging or regular content updates matter to your site, WordPress’s editorial tools are more capable than Wix’s. And because WordPress isn’t tied to one company’s hosting, you get to choose your own host, control your own costs, and take your site with you if you ever want to move it again.
How to Migrate a Wix Website to WordPress with PressMeGPT
1. Sign in and start a new project Create a free PressMeGPT account (or log in), click New Project, and choose the option to generate a theme from an existing website.
2. Paste your Wix site’s URL Copy your live, published Wix URL and paste it in. PressMeGPT will scan the site’s layout, sections, and styling.
3. Add optional instructions You can guide the result with notes like “keep the header as-is” or specify whether you want the output built for Classic, Gutenberg, or Elementor.
4. Generate the theme Click Generate Theme and let PressMeGPT build out the template files and styling — usually just a couple of minutes.
5. Refine with prompts Preview the result and use follow-up prompts to adjust anything that didn’t come through the way you wanted — spacing, sections, fonts, and so on.
6. Export your theme Choose Classic, Gutenberg, or Elementor, whichever fits how you plan to keep editing the site.
7. Install it on WordPress Set up a fresh WordPress install on your domain, then go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, upload your file, install it, and activate it.
A Few Things to Keep in Mind
PressMeGPT rebuilds your site’s design, not the content sitting behind it — so a few things still need your attention afterward:
- Blog posts don’t transfer automatically. If your Wix site has a blog, you’ll need to move those posts over separately (Wix’s RSS feed is one option for pulling in recent posts, though it has limits on how much history it covers).
- Wix Stores or Bookings content isn’t part of the theme. If your site uses those apps, you’ll need to rebuild that functionality with WordPress plugins (WooCommerce for a store, a booking plugin for appointments) since it’s app-specific functionality, not part of the visual design.
- Rebuild your forms using a WordPress plugin, and make sure notification emails are working before you go live.
- Set up 301 redirects, since Wix’s URL structure won’t match WordPress’s by default — this protects your SEO and any existing backlinks.
- Back up your Wix site before you start, and test everything on staging before pointing your domain’s DNS at the new host.
- Resubmit your sitemap to Google Search Console once you’re live.
Final Thoughts
Leaving Wix has always meant leaving your design behind too — until now. PressMeGPT lets you keep the look you’ve already built and move it into a platform with far more room to grow, so you can spend your time on the content and functionality instead of starting over from a blank theme.