How to Properly Move from Weebly to WordPress (Step by Step)

[@wpbeginner]

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[@BillFinkelstein]

Tried it, no joy. the export tool said I have no blog to export. My Weebly site has 9 pages and no blog section. So I guess I'm stuck migrating manually.

[@kaluma9229]

Didn't work for me. Said I had no blog content but I have had a blog for years.

[@AdamGForPolitiCorps]

use the .weebly.com extension of your site as opposed to yourname.com

[@cindywalther5417]

@@AdamGForPolitiCorps what if you have a purchased domain name without the .weebly.com??

[@canadasitedesigns]

THIS ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT WORK, IT MAY HAVE WORKED YEARS AGO, BUT IT IS NO LONGER VALID

[@DavePR]

@@AdamGForPolitiCorps I tried to export www.mastergermandodorremoval.weebly.com/ AND www.mastergermandodorremoval.com/ with no luck. Any other tips to make this work?

[@DavePR]

I did get one website (www.roofboxguy.com) to copy. I have no idea why one would work and one would not.

[@tobiashussey1272]

Hi. I'm recieving the same issue that on either WXR or TXT I recieve the error message 'Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?' . My domain is SSL certified. Could this be the issue? Thanks for your help in advance!

[@diosajennae]

Hello, I created my site on weebly and now I have restored a backup for the same domain on Wordpress. I don't want to transfer any content from weebly. I'm just trying to use my Wordpress installation backup when I go to my URL. Instead my weebly site comes up and I can't find where to delete the weebly site. Now I have to CMS systems using the same domain. Would you tell me how to get rid of the weebly site please? I don't really want to start over with the wordpress site, I can't distinguish which files are which under the FTP/file manager in CPanel to delete the Weebly.

[@poulavbiswas8743]

Didn't work for me.. Says = Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?

[@francinea6718]

I have the same issue. Is there a solution yet?

[@modestyfashion8723]

I am having so much trouble moving my weebly website from Square to Wordpress it's not recognizing I have a Weebly website because it's not directly through Weebly it's through Squareup. Any suggestions??

[@wpbeginner]

Squareup is a different platform which would be why the Weebly exporter would not be working. You may have Weebly on a subdomain of your site.

[@modestyfashion8723]

@@wpbeginner how do I transfer completely to weebly?

[@ASVideo]

The plugin works but you need to deactivate the SSL (httpS) on your website. Probably on your website you have a function that forces the httpS also when you type just http. So try to deactivate this function, but if are redirect anyway on the httpS version you need to deactivate the SSL just to do this migration, then you can reactivate it. For me i had yo deactivate the SSL in the weebly website settings, then i had to deactivate the SSL on Cloudflare (just because i use Cloudflare). Was a mess to reactivate it but it works!

[@wpbeginner]

Thank you for letting us know about this issue , we'll certainly take a look at what could be the reason

[@ASVideo]

@@wpbeginner You are welcome, and thanks to you for this amazing tool 😁

[@jernejsrebrnic]

Thank you, this worked for me.

[@LatinoWebStudio]

The website doesn't work. It keeps timing out after starting the process.

[@wpbeginner]

If you have a very large site it could be timing out, in that case please reach out to us using our contact form below for us to assist! www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@a7xfanben]

Getting this message: "Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?" Only one of the pages is technically a blog page; I guess non-blog pages don't work?

[@wpbeginner]

It could also be an issue with the exporter. We will be sure to take a look into if there are any errors.

[@AdamGForPolitiCorps]

use the .weebly.com extension of your site as opposed to yourname.com

[@marcrigor6423]

@@AdamGForPolitiCorps Without explaining how to find the extension, this advice is totally worthless.

[@aniza_c]

Hello, how do you create a new domain for WordPress if you already have the domain on Weebly? I suppose you can't create a domain that already exists.

[@wpbeginner]

You can transfer your domain to the new host or most hosting providers have the option for a temporary address where you can set up the new site while the old site is still active.

[@karenruth73]

I've tried it several times, but I keep getting a Gateway Timeout error.

[@wpbeginner]

If you mean our exporter, please reach out to us using our contact form with the site that is causing this error: www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@lakehighland]

I keep getting a no blog content error. How do I fix this?

[@AdamGForPolitiCorps]

use the .weebly.com extension of your site as opposed to yourname.com

[@francinea6718]

Having the same issue. Used weebly.com extension and still getting error message.

[@All4motion24]

tool is not working. it is starting but there is no chance to download something. Another try gave a 504 gateway fault on the site...

[@wpbeginner]

Please reach out to us using our contact form here: www.wpbeginner.com/contact/ and the url causing this issue for us to be able to assist

[@greenleaf3842]

In the exporting tool i get the message "Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?" Anyone knows how to fix that?

[@wpbeginner]

Would you kindly reach out to us using our contact form below and let us know your site's address for us to take a look: www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@ongkuanlin9911]

Is the website content editable after we migrate it to a new web host?

[@wpbeginner]

Yes, you would be able to edit the content on WordPress :)

[@samisattva]

I had the same issue as everyone else, then disabled the SSL, removed the trailing backslash, then tried again and it worked! Not sure if it was the ssl disable or removal of slash, but it worked. Thanks for the tool!

[@wpbeginner]

You're welcome glad it was able to export your site. For anyone who has issues with the importer they can also reach out to us through our contact form for us to take a look :)

[@elainestackhouse6035]

How do you disable SSL? I am getting error

[@Ayyash365]

Hi, When I click Export My Weebly Website it says "Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?" Go Back

[@wpbeginner]

Please reach out to us using our contact form below and include your site URL for us to take a look to see if we can solve this for you: www.wpbeginner.com/contact

[@Swift_Water]

Is there a possibility to transfer the weebly theme over to wordpress as well??

[@wpbeginner]

No it's not possible to move your theme.

[@moonrivers71]

Yes, you can. I found this link, as I have to do this with only "one" of my Weebly sites due to a client request. You can give it a try. Good luck. :) smallbusiness.chron.com/convert-weebly-theme-wordpress-44850.html

[@robertrumfelt7843]

Fantastic! One of the best "how to's" I've ever seen on YT. Only wish it showed how to switch over to a WP site while using the SAME host as I'm looking at doing. Thanks!

[@DylanWOWilliams]

Did you figure it out? I'm in that same boat for my business.

[@LifewithEbrahim]

Will the process lost my keywords rankings? Please answer me.. Thanks!

[@wpbeginner]

As long as your redirects are set up properly, you shouldn't lose rankings for your content.

[@TylerHoff]

I'm getting same issue as Bill... any ideas why I might be getting the no content found on this site error? I have over 100 pages and over 90 blogs? Thank You!🙏👍

[@wpbeginner]

Please reach out to us using our contact form below with your site address for us to test the issue from our end. www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@TylerHoff]

@@wpbeginner You're awesome Thank You!🙏👍

[@SophiePloeg]

Hi, it worked but all my posts show 0 comments, although the comments are visible... how can I fix this?

[@wpbeginner]

You may want to try: www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-category-and-comment-count-after-wordpress-import/

[@SophiePloeg]

thanks!! :)

[@Damonx360x]

so the WP site has a new domain name??? i dont want to lose my domain and have it redirected ...

[@wpbeginner]

As long as it is your own domain and not a domain with Weebly in the URL you can keep the same domain name.

[@mountainmamashome]

It said "Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. " . Can you help?

[@wpbeginner]

If you reach out to us through our contact form with the site url we can certainly take a look.

[@eastcoastbrushworks6327]

Is there a tutorial on how to convert a Weebly merchant page (pay site) to a free page? My wife setup a business page that costs $35 per mos because she had it setup with a shopping cart, accepting credit cards, etc. She wants to keep the website, but convert it to more of a gallery page. Any suggestions?

[@wpbeginner]

We do not have a recommended method for what it sounds like you're wanting at the moment.

[@michellecollins2712]

I’d suggest you talk out things with techcyber100 via gmail..

[@hmudesign]

Hi there, what a great set of tutorials you have. I'm trying to help a friend move a Weebly site over to Wordpress (Godaddy) as she has her domain there and another site. Now Weebly went on ahead 2 weeks ago and wiped out her site for no good reason, that I know of anyway, and they say it was never there. We do have a backup. I asked my friend to make, about 2 months ago. Will I be able to use your steps with a the new host, using the backup file we made, instead of the migration file? If not, is there any direction you can point me too? The backup is the only thing we have at the moment. When we contacted Weebly, they have multitude of excuses, anything from the site was never there, even though it was there for 10 years, also they say that Godaddy domain doesn't point to the site, which is not true, In Godaddy's DNS records, it's clearly pointing to the right address as I has been for the last 10 years. I see in forums that a lot of people having the same problem, that their sites have been wiped. I would really appreciate the help if you can spare a moment. Thanks in advance.

[@wpbeginner]

For our steps you would need to have the site active somewhere for the scanner to find it and download the content for WordPress at which point you could follow our steps. So you would first need to restore your backup for this guide.

[@DamaniJones]

If I used the weebly SiteBuilder, can I export and migrate that to WordPress as well?

[@jadppersonal890]

Hi! It doesn't works for me. What can i do?

[@wpbeginner]

Please reach out to our team using our contact form below with the site's URL for us to look into this issue! www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@turningtodd]

Will this work for an ecommerce site? I've got quite a few products loaded in my store on a weebly site. Also, it doesn't delete the content from Weebly does it? Finally, can you transfer to a temporary domain so you can edit and resolve issues without disrupting traffic to the weebly site? Thank you!

[@wpbeginner]

It does not remove your content, it would depend on how your ecommerce content is set up on the site for how well it's exported. You can create a test site using: www.wpbeginner.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#installlocal Once you have the local installation looking how you want you can use our guide here: www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-from-local-server-to-live-site/

[@michaelwoodard5029]

I was so hopeful this would work. I am getting the same no blog to export. I never set up a blog just a regular website. Will this not work? I don't recall the video mentioning that it had to be a blog

[@wpbeginner]

It would depend on how your content is set up. Please reach out to us using our contact form and we can try the export from our end.

[@matthewroblin9089]

Great video. I have a business website on Weebly. The site currently has good search results amongst my competition, but i'm wondering if transfering from Weebly to Wordpress will hurt my SEO much?

[@wpbeginner]

It should not hurt your SEO and it gives the option to add tools to improve your SEO

[@animeshinclub2470]

This was a very well constructed video. I loved the click-by-click process. Still going to hire a professional to do it, but this gives me a greater understanding (and respect) for the complexity of the project. Thank you for making this!

[@wpbeginner]

Glad our video was helpful :)

[@dankaplan]

Do the weebly site title and meta description get transferred over too?

[@wpbeginner]

You would want to set that up on the new WordPress site.

[@dankaplan]

@@wpbeginner How about the pictures? Do they get saved on that file too?

[@SweetSouthernSavings]

I moved from Weebly to self hosted in June. I had someone do it for me but with this I could have done it myself!

[@molly2frodo222]

The weeblytowp.com website did not work for me. I had to go to through Weebly to get the zip file for my website and then save it on my computer.

[@Clicker_yt]

but that file is html...How did you load it to wordpress?

[@robmeijers2942]

Would save me lots of time, but I'm also getting the 'no blog content' message (www.4future.com). Is there any fix?

[@wpbeginner]

The exporter can sometimes send an error if it is a very large site, if you continue to run into that error please reach out to us using our contact form.

[@DylanWOWilliams]

What if you already have Weebly on bluehost and want to switch to wordpress on bluehost?

[@wpbeginner]

You would want to take a look at our guide below on creating a staging site for something like that: www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/

[@DavePR]

I own my URL (www.RoofBoxGuy.com) but instead of being able to update Nameservers, I had to go to Settings > SEO > Header and use the included stuff. When I did that, saved it, published it in Weebly, it "worked," but the site kept accessing stripe and weebly and roofboxguy and on and on and on and on until I stopped the site loading. It did this for as long as I let it, finally hitting the X to stop loading the site. It did look just like my Weebly version. I returned my Weebly Header back to what it was because this was bad. What's up? And my website didn't look at all like a website when it got imported to Wordpress.

[@wpbeginner]

You're using a method we're not recommending so it is hard to say what the error is. You could have a faulty redirect as a likely reason for the continual loading.

[@DavePR]

@@wpbeginner the option to edit nameservers did not appear for me. Where can I find it if it doesn't appear as in the video?

[@DesignerYash]

It's Not Working. It says file is empty.

[@weetiong6194]

Hi Ma'am, thanks for the great sharing. I have signed up a package with Weebly till next year 5/1/2019. Now, i want to start building my website using Wordpress platform and I've decided to use A2 hosting to host my website. I want to know if I do the domain name transfer from Weebly to A2 hosting will my Weebly site stop working once the transfer takes effect. The reason is I still want to keep my Weebly site till 5/1/2019 while I work on my new WordPress site.

[@wpbeginner]

You would likely no longer be able to view your Weebly site without setting your domain's nameservers on the new hosting provider to point to Weebly

[@weetiong6194]

Thanks for your reply. So what is the best way out if I want to start learning the WordPress while keeping the weebly site till 5/1/2019?

[@wpbeginner]

You could install WordPress on your computer: www.wpbeginner.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#installlocal

[@weetiong6194]

Thanks so much for the helpful article. My next question would be would be possible to install a Thrive theme and its page builder on WAMP and try it out and later transfer to a live WordPress?

[@adrienelaw9427]

This is great! But how long should it take to generate the export file? It's been 'generating' for almost an hour now. Is that normal?

[@adrienelaw9427]

And now I have been waiting over 5 hours... This can't be normal! Can someone please talk to me?

[@wpbeginner]

it may be running into an error if the file is massive or you could have a browser addon that could be causing a hiccup would me the most common reasons

[@kikobunny0102]

Thanks for the useful video! I may have missed it but if I have a paid domain on Weebly and I want to migrate to Wordpress, what should I do differently? Also wanted to ask when you migrate contents from weebly to Wordpress, does all the captions, alt text and H1-H6 tags automatically migrate to Wordpress like the text? Or do you have to re-do all of that from scratch? Thank you!

[@wpbeginner]

The tags should transfer from your content. For having a custom domain, you would likely need to use the host's temporary domain to set up the site and then point your domain to your new host when your new site is ready.

[@kikobunny0102]

WPBeginner - WordPress Tutorials Thanks so much for responding and for creating such a useful tool! I was very nervous about being about to move over to Wordpress and your blog and tool is very helpful. Haven’t started on the migrating process yet because we still have 6 months subscription on Weebly. Thinking of starting the process in 3 months time and focus on content for now. Do you think that would complicate the process, to transfer over in 3 months time?

[@wpbeginner]

It shouldn't be a problem if you wait to transfer over :)

[@HighTicket2Freedom]

How about going from Wordpress to Weebly?

[@wpbeginner]

We do not have a tutorial for that.

[@cindywalther5417]

it did import the content but not the layout. What can I do?

[@wpbeginner]

Sadly, Weebly designs don't transfer over, you would need to look for a new theme for your WordPress site

[@john_thorpe]

This does not work.

[@wpbeginner]

If you are having trouble with a step in the transfer, you can feel free to reach out to us using our contact form below: www.wpbeginner.com/contact/

[@celine6807]

Thank you for this great tool and tutorial. Unfortunately at min 8:06 I don't get the assign authors page but a download of admin.php. Do you have an idea what could help?

[@wpbeginner]

You may want to check your folder permissions: www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-fix-file-and-folder-permissions-error-in-wordpress/ for one possible reason for that.

[@celine6807]

Thank you for this idea! I followed the tutorial to adjust the permissions. But it still doesn't work. No import but only a download of this admin.php file. Could you please help me with another solution?

[@celine6807]

I found a solution with my web hoster support! For those who encounter the same problem: I had to disable a guestbook spam filter named server side security. Now it works fine. Thanks for the tool!

[@Aries0098]

I need help. This error keeps occurring.. "Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?" The site already has a lot of content.

[@mediumstudio]

having the same problem!

[@mattmagowan6055]

Me also! :(

[@wpbeginner]

We've noticed this problem on a few sites and are looking to remove this issue as soon as we are able

[@wpbeginner]

We have recently updated the site so if you are still trying to export your content could you try again please?

[@mediumstudio]

Fantastic! It worked - much much thanks!!

[@molly2frodo222]

Will the transfer be as effective for an ecommerce Weebly website as it is for a blog Weebly website?

[@wpbeginner]

transferring your site should work the same whether it is an ecommerce site or a blog site

[@molly2frodo222]

Will my products from my ecommerce Weebly website transfer over automatically? Will I have to install a plugin in my case it would be the easy digital downloads plugin before I transfer the website?

[@wpbeginner]

If you were selling directly on the site you would need to recreate the store and products with a plugin such as easy digital downloads or WooCommerce.

[@molly2frodo222]

Can I just transfer my ecommerce Weebly website to Wordpress without having to add each product individually to my new Wordpress website? I am trying to avoid having to manually add each digial product that I had on my Weebly website to my new Wordpress website. I have over 100 digital products on my Weebly website that would be very time consuming to have to add each product individually to Wordpress.

[@meghannmurray2994]

How do I transfer a domain name that I already own?

[@wpbeginner]

It would depend on where you purchased your domain, if you reach out to the registrar they should be able to let you know how to transfer a domain from their service to another.

[@scottsummerson1310]

I'm getting an error to, can't save file in either format.

[@wpbeginner]

Hi Scott, Which error are you getting? Can you please let us know so we can take a look.

[@scottsummerson1310]

Sorry I didn't see your response. This is what happens when I try to upload into WP. Import WordPress Sorry, there has been an error. This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number

[@No1Maddie]

What if I want to move the domain from weebly as well?

[@candicecrolla1129]

I am in the same boat. I need to transfer my domain as well, I cant find anything to help me with this process.

[@wpbeginner]

If you want to transfer the domain you could use: hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/articles/216733938-Unlock-Your-Domain-and-Get-the-EPP-Code

[@RogerFanti]

I am getting an error message when I try downloading the file.

[@mikeberry9892]

Could someone tell me how long this should take? Don't say 14:30 min.

[@wpbeginner]

Hey Roger, I tried the site dollsanddogs.com that you tried exporting and it downloads the export just fine. Can you please tell me what error that you were getting? Thanks

[@RogerFanti]

How do I share a screen shot?

[@RogerFanti]

how do I send a screen shot?

[@wpbeginner]

It seems the error you might be getting is because you're clicking on the link instead of right clicking and selecting Save As for the file.

[@arcosincontrol2495]

in spanish please!!!!!

[@wpbeginner]

At the moment our content is only available in English sadly.

[@CesarMartinez-km4uk]

thank you

[@wpbeginner]

Glad you liked our video :)

[@nickvellis9823]

Easy to understand. Thanks for this great video.

[@wpbeginner]

Glad you enjoyed our video :)