How to Move a Wix Site to WordPress on Hostinger Without Losing Rankings

Why there is no easy way

Wix is a closed platform. There is no export of pages, design or products; only blog posts (via RSS) and, for Wix Stores, a product CSV. Everything else is recreated by hand. That sounds worse than it is: a 10-page business site is a day or two of build, and you end up with a site you own.

Should you move at all?

Move if: you need real SEO control, faster pages, a proper blog, WooCommerce with Indian payment gateways, or you are paying Wix's business plan and getting a slow site. Stay if: the site is a simple one-pager you never touch and the Wix plan is cheap. Read our Hostinger vs Wix comparison for the full case.

Step 1: Crawl the Wix site

Use Screaming Frog (free up to 500 URLs) or a similar crawler to list every URL, title, meta description and image on the Wix site. This is your migration map. Also export Google Search Console's top pages so you know which URLs carry rankings.

Step 2: Set up WordPress on Hostinger

Buy a Hostinger plan (Business for most, Cloud Startup for stores), add the domain in hPanel with India as the location, install WordPress on the temporary URL. Do not change DNS yet. Buying through our partner link gets 20% off and we do this part free.

Step 3: Rebuild pages with matching URLs

Wix URLs look like /about-us or /services/web-design. Create the same slugs on WordPress. Where the Wix URL has odd characters or a /post/ prefix for blogs, decide the new URL and note it for redirects. Copy text, re-upload images (download them from Wix at full size, compress before upload), rebuild forms with WPForms or Fluent Forms.

Step 4: Bring the blog across

Wix > Settings > Blog > export RSS, or use the WordPress RSS importer plugin with the Wix feed URL (yourdomain.com/blog-feed.xml). Check each post for broken images and fix the URLs.

Step 5: Products (Wix Stores)

Export products as CSV from Wix, import into WooCommerce with the built-in importer, then map images and variants. Payment gateway: Razorpay, PayU or Stripe via their WooCommerce plugins.

Step 6: Redirects

For every URL that changed, add a 301 redirect on WordPress (Rank Math or Redirection plugin). For URLs that stayed identical, nothing is needed. Wix itself can hold redirects only while the domain still points to Wix, so all redirects must live on the WordPress side.

Step 7: Point the domain at Hostinger

If the domain is registered with Wix: unlock and transfer it, or change nameservers in the Wix domain panel to Hostinger's. If it is registered elsewhere (GoDaddy, BigRock): change nameservers there. Keep the Wix subscription active for two weeks in case you missed something.

Step 8: Verify

Force HTTPS, resubmit the sitemap in Search Console, check every URL from your Step 1 map returns 200 or 301, and watch Search Console for 404s over the next two weeks.

Cost and time

Done yourself, a 10-page site takes a weekend plus the learning curve. Through VGraple, the Wix to WordPress migration is INR 24,999 (the large-site rate, because it is a rebuild), which includes the URL map, redirects, form rebuild, image optimisation and 14 days of post-launch checks. Design changes are quoted separately.