Both Wix and WordPress are open source softwares that provide a great platform to build and maintain different kinds of websites. Depending on your website aims and objectives — one tool may work better than another.

Wix is a low cost website platform with the help of which fully functional and professional looking sites can be published in an hour or so. One of Wix’s advantages is how quickly you can get started — in fact, it’s just a matter of a few mouse clicks to visit the official website, create an account there and pick a template as the basis for your new web project. Despite the fact that most of the templates are considered to be nice — they are to some extent simple, lacking many those features that WordPress presents. What is more, once you’ve chosen a template — it is impossible to change it while proceeding with the site designing, and that is considered to be one of the Wix’s disadvantages. Besides, there is no admin area or backend where you can control the site — everything is controlled in widgets and floating windows. The software doesn’t pay much attention to SEO, providing only SEO basic features. All that makes Wix’s learning curve steeper requiring much more time and knowledge to get used to how it works.

WordPress, in contrast, is an award-winning CMS in terms of simplicity and efficiency at the same time. The platform makes it easy to manage and update the content — to add new pages, to edit the text, to upload pictures, etc — due to its extremely intuitive interface. Its huge amount of different templates allows for more customization giving an excellent opportunity to make your web project as unique and authentic as you wish. It was basically designed as absolutely user-friendly platform, so you don’t have to be an expert in programming language in order to master and operate the platform. With WordPress, you can change one template for another and have completely refreshed visual look of the site in some minutes. One more speak-for-itself advantage of WordPress is its SEO — the platform is generally loved by Google and there are a number of SEO tools that make it more beneficial to work with.

In case you are running a Wix website but wish to expand your website efficiency with WordPress — you have a perfect opportunity to migrate from Wix to WordPress with the help of CMS2CMS automated service. It’s a low-cost and easy-to-use converter where no special knowledge and coding skills are required. What is more, you may always feel confident about asking for help — there is 24/7 support team and online chat to help you in case you get stuck.

So if you have estimated all the benefits of WordPress and made the right choice move to it, here we provide a short tutorial with easy-to-follow steps:

1. Before you proceed with the migration, its necessary for you to download “CMS2CMS Wix to WordPress Migrator” plugin as a zip file and extract it to your PC. When ready, upload extracted file to wp-content/plugin directory. After that go to admin panel, find Plugin and activate it by pressing the corresponding button. In order to complete the migration, you’ll be automatically redirected to cms2cms.
2. Set up your CMS2CMS account. Go to www.cms2cms.com and register your account there. You can also do that by means of Facebook or Google accounts;
3. Specify your Source and Target Sites in the matching fields. Choose Wix as your existing type and WordPress as new. Type in the URLs of your Wix and WordPress websites.
4. Provide information about Migration Preferences by choosing from the offered migration options. You should know that the service allows make URLs SEO friendly, to transfer not only information, but also media content, to get design suggestions.
5. Demo Migration is suggested to run, for you to know how the service works. It takes only a few minutes and gives the possibility to estimate the new visual look of a new site.
6. Start Full Migration by pressing the matching button. After that your Wix website data will be converted to WordPress.

That’s it! Enjoy the results of migration and use new possibilities to make your project more successful.