In the previousWeebly Website Building Tutorial articleNaiba mentioned that Weebly data is not in your own hands, making migration very troublesome. So, if you insist on migrating from Weebly to the WordPress platform, how should you proceed? Here, Naiba shares a method for manually migrating from Weebly to the WordPress platform.
The image above shows a problem encountered by a user in a group chat. Their previous website was on Weebly, and they now want to migrate to aSiteGroundOn the server, SG's reference tutorial for customers is to use the Feedzy RSS Feeds plugin ($59 and up)
https://themeisle.com/blog/move-from-weebly-to-wordpress/
Naiba looked at the tutorial, which imports articles from Weebly into WordPress by reading RSS feeds.
In practice, this approach may not be perfect.
For example, if your website has a store, your products cannot be imported via RSS and need to be manually uploaded in WordPress.
Therefore, the most reliable method is manual migration, copying and pasting article by article.
Let's take the demo website from our Weebly website building tutorial article as an example.
If we want towww.rosemaryroche.commigrate the content of this site to WordPress, what is the correct approach?
1. Observe the permalink structure of the original Weebly site.
We can see that the page URLs on this site end with .html, while blog posts have a blog folder followed by the post name without .html.
This permalink structure is exactly opposite to that of WordPress.
WordPress permalinks can be set so that posts end with .html and pages do not.
Therefore, to keep the article URLs exactly the same, we need to manually write a rewrite rule or directly create a 301 rule to redirect the Weebly format to the WordPress format.
2. Set up the corresponding article categories and product categories in WordPress.
3. Manually copy the articles and products from Weebly and publish them on the WordPress site (you can use a subdomain or modify the hosts file).
4. After all content is updated, point the domain to the WordPress server to complete the migration from Weebly to WordPress.
Finally, if you have too many articles on your Weebly site, you can consider usinghttps://weeblytowp.com/this website to help you batch migrate.
Overall, if you have many articles on Weebly, you can consider using a third-party tool to export via RSS, or directly use a scraping tool to import into WordPress.
If you don't have many articles on Weebly, you can simply copy and paste manually, because products need to be transferred manually.