How to Migrate from Weebly to WordPress, Weebly Migration Tutorial

In the previousWeebly Website Building Tutorial articleNaiba mentioned that Weebly data is not in your own hands, making migration troublesome. So, if you insist on migrating from Weebly to the WordPress platform, how should you proceed? Here, Naiba shares the method for manually migrating from Weebly to WordPress.The image above shows a problem encountered by a user in the group. His previous website was on Weebly, and now he wants to migrate it to aSitegroundserver. The reference tutorial provided by SG support was to use the Feedzy RSS Feeds Plugin (starting at $59) https://themeisle.com/blog/move-from-weebly-to-wordpress/. Naiba reviewed the tutorial; it imports articles from Weebly to WordPress by reading RSS feeds. In practice, this method 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 to WordPress.Therefore, the most reliable method is manual migration, copying and pasting article by article.Let's use the demo website from our Weebly Website Building Tutorial article as an example. If we want to movewww.rosemaryroche.comthe 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 end with .html, while blog posts are under a 'blog' folder and end with the post name without .html. This Permalink structure is the opposite of WordPress's. WordPress Permalinks can be set so that posts end with .html and pages do not. Therefore, to make the article URLs completely identical, we need to manually write a rewrite rule or directly set up a 301 redirect rule to redirect Weebly's format to WordPress's format. 2. Set up corresponding post Categories and product Categories on WordPress. 3. Manually copy and publish the articles and products previously on Weebly to the WordPress website (you can use a subdomain or modify the hosts file). 4. After all content is modified, point the domain's DNS 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 also consider usinghttps://weeblytowp.com/this website to help you batch convert. In summary, if you have many articles on Weebly, you can consider using third-party tools to export from RSS or directly use scraping software to import into WordPress. If you don't have many articles on Weebly, simply copy and paste manually, as products need to be transferred manually anyway.