¿Quieres cambiar de Weebly a WordPress?
Sí, es posible migrar todo tu contenido de Weebly a WordPress sin contratar a un desarrollador o saber cómo codificar. Hemos creado una herramienta gratuita de importación de Weebly a WordPress que lo hace todo por ti.
En este artículo, le mostraremos cómo pasar correctamente de Weebly a WordPress (paso a paso).
¿Por qué migrar de Weebly a WordPress?
Elegir WordPress en lugar de Weebly se reduce realmente a la flexibilidad y el control.
WordPress es el tipo de plataforma web “para todo”. Es de código abierto, lo que significa que una enorme comunidad de desarrolladores mejora constantemente sus capacidades.
Tendrás acceso a miles de temas y plugins que te permitirán personalizar tu sitio a tu gusto. Tanto si quieres establecer un blog sencillo como un sitio de comercio electrónico complejo, WordPress puede con todo.
Weebly es fácil de usar y perfecto si quieres crear un sitio web rápidamente y sin complicaciones. Sin embargo, sus características de personalización son limitadas y no tiene todas las capacidades SEO que ofrece WordPress.
Según nuestra experiencia, la mayoría de la gente no elige la mejor plataforma de blogs cuando empieza. Lo más probable es que opten por una de las muchas soluciones de alojamiento, como Weebly, porque han oído hablar de su facilidad y gratuidad.
Desgraciadamente, WordPress a veces tiene mala reputación y existen muchos mitos acerca de él que simplemente no son ciertos.
Una vez que te metes más en el blog y aprendes acerca de SEO, monetización, personalización, etc, entonces tienes ese momento de ¡Vaya! porque te das cuenta de que tomaste la decisión equivocada.
Descubrirá que WordPress es el mejor sistema de gestión de contenidos que existe.
Y es entonces cuando te entra el pánico porque no quieres que tu duro trabajo se eche a perder.
No te preocupes, no lo hará. Hemos ayudado a cientos de personas a cambiar de Weebly a WordPress. No, no tienes que saber nada de código. Si puedes seguir las instrucciones y apuntar y hacer clic, entonces puedes mover tu sitio Weebly a WordPress.
Sí, te llevará aproximadamente una hora migrar correctamente de Weebly a WordPress, pero merece completamente la pena.
Oferta adicional gratuita: Ya que muchos de ustedes nos lo pidieron, ahora estamos ofreciendo un servicio gratuito de migración de Weebly a WordPress como parte de nuestro servicio gratuito de instalación de blogs en WordPress. Esto significa que uno de los miembros de nuestro equipo de expertos hará toda la migración para usted (100% gratis). Sí, puedes cambiar literalmente de Weebly a WordPress sin ningún riesgo.
Sin embargo, si te gusta aprender y hacer las cosas por ti mismo, puedes seguir nuestro tutorial paso a paso a continuación.
¿Preparados? Primeros pasos.
Tutorial en vídeo de Weebly a WordPress
Si no te gustan los tutoriales en vídeo o quieres avanzar a tu propio ritmo, sigue leyendo las instrucciones a continuación.
Paso 1: Primeros pasos
Para crear un blog en WordPress, necesitas dos cosas:
- Un nombre de dominio (el nombre de su blog, por ejemplo, wpbeginner.com).
- Una cuenta de alojamiento web (aquí es donde su sitio web vive en Internet).
Aunque WordPress en sí es gratuito, tanto el dominio como el alojamiento web tienen un coste (14,99 $ / año para el dominio y 7,99 $ / mes para el alojamiento web).
Afortunadamente, Bluehost, un proveedor de alojamiento oficial recomendado por WordPress, ha accedido a ofrecer a nuestros usuarios un nombre de dominio gratuito y más de un 73% de descuento en alojamiento web.
Si, por alguna razón, desea otras opciones, puede consultar nuestro anuncio / catálogo / ficha de las mejores empresas de alojamiento de WordPress.
Una vez que hayas establecido tu dominio y alojamiento, el siguiente paso es instalar WordPress. Tenemos una guía paso a paso sobre cómo instalar WordPress.
Cuando hayas terminado de instalar WordPress, estarás listo para pasar al siguiente paso, que es trasladar tu contenido de Weebly a WordPress.
Paso 2: Exporta el contenido de tu sitio web Weebly
En el pasado, era muy difícil para los usuarios pasar de Weebly a WordPress porque no era fácil exportar datos desde Weebly.
Decidimos resolver este problema y desarrollamos un importador gratuito de Weebly a WordPress.
Es una herramienta online gratuita que importa tu contenido de Weebly y lo convierte en un formato de importación compatible con WordPress. No realiza ningún cambio en tu sitio Weebly existente, por lo que su uso es perfectamente seguro.
Dirígete al sitio web del Importador de Weebly a WordPress e introduce la URL de tu sitio web Weebly.
Se le pedirá que indique su nombre y dirección de correo electrónico y que seleccione un formato de exportación.
La opción por defecto es el formato WXR, y no debería cambiarlo a menos que se encuentre con un problema / conflicto / incidencia más adelante.
A continuación, tienes que elegir si quieres incluir páginas en tu archivo de exportación. La opción por defecto es ‘Sí’, y tampoco necesitas cambiarla a menos que realmente no quieras exportar páginas de Weebly.
Después, tienes que hacer clic en el botón ‘Exportar mi sitio web Weebly’.
El Importador de Weebly a WordPress recuperará el contenido de tu sitio web Weebly y lo convertirá en un archivo de exportación compatible con WordPress.
Verás un botón para descargar tu archivo de exportación de Weebly. Tienes que hacer clic con el botón derecho y seleccionar ‘Guardar enlace como’ en el menú.
Esto descargará el archivo export.xml en su ordenador.
Paso 3: Importar contenido de Weebly a WordPress
Ahora que tienes tu contenido de Weebly en un formato compatible con WordPress, es el momento de importarlo a WordPress.
Acceda a su área de administrador y diríjase a la página Herramientas ” Importar.
Verás un anuncio / catálogo / ficha de importadores disponibles para diferentes plataformas. Debes desplazarte hasta WordPress y enlazar el enlace “Instalar ahora”.
WordPress buscará ahora el plugin importador y lo instalará en su sitio WordPress sin recargar la página.
Una vez instalado, haga clic en “Ejecutar importador” para iniciarlo.
Esto te llevará a la página del importador de WordPress. Siga adelante y haga clic en el botón “Elegir archivo” para seleccionar el archivo export.xml que descargó anteriormente.
A continuación, haga clic en el botón “Subir archivo e importar” para continuar.
El importador de WordPress subirá y analizará su archivo de exportación. En la siguiente pantalla, le pedirá que asigne autores.
Puedes importar un autor desde tu sitio web Weebly, crear un nuevo autor o asignar todo el contenido a tu usuario WordPress existente.
No olvides marcar la casilla siguiente a la opción “Descargar e importar archivos adjuntos”. Esta opción cargará las imágenes de tu sitio web Weebly en la biblioteca de medios de WordPress para que puedas utilizarlas más tarde.
Ahora puede hacer clic en el botón “Enviar” para ejecutar el importador. WordPress importará el contenido del archivo de exportación a tu base de datos de WordPress. También intentará recuperar las imágenes enlazadas a las entradas y páginas de tu blog Weebly.
Al finalizar, verá un mensaje de correcto.
Enhorabuena, has importado correctamente el contenido de tu blog Weebly a WordPress. Ahora puedes ir a entradas, páginas y categorías en el área de administrador de WordPress para ver si todo tu contenido está allí. Además, marca / comprueba la biblioteca de medios para ver las imágenes importadas desde tu sitio Weebly.
Si el proceso de importación falla a medio camino, siempre puede volver a ejecutarlo. El importador es lo suficientemente inteligente como para detectar contenido duplicado y omitirlo. Solo importará el contenido que no se importó correctamente en el intento anterior.
Paso 4: Establecer redireccionamientos
Si estabas usando un dominio personalizado en tu sitio Weebly (como yoursite.com), entonces necesitas apuntarlo a tu proveedor de alojamiento WordPress.
En primer lugar, debes acceder a tu cuenta Weebly e ir a la página Dominios. Haz clic en el nombre de dominio que quieras editar y, a continuación, en la página de ajustes de dominio, haz clic en el botón “Cambiar” situado junto a la opción Servidores de nombres.
En la siguiente pantalla, debe introducir los servidores de nombres de su nuevo alojamiento de WordPress. En el caso de Bluehost, son ns1.bluehost.com y ns2.bluehost.com.
Haz clic en el botón “Guardar” para establecer los ajustes.
Los cambios de servidor de nombres pueden tardar un poco en propagarse por Internet. Una vez que los cambios surtan efecto, los visitantes empezarán a ver su sitio de WordPress.
Si estuviera usando una URL de subdominio en su sitio Weebly (como http://example.weebly.com), entonces así es como configuraría la redirección.
Accede / accede a tu Escritorio Weebly y edita tu sitio web. A continuación, tienes que hacer clic en Ajustes y luego en la pestaña SEO.
Ahora, desplácese hasta la opción de código de cabecera y añada esta línea de código:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/">
Sustituya sudominio.com por el nombre de dominio de su nuevo sitio WordPress.
No olvides hacer clic en los botones “Guardar” y “Publicar” para guardar los cambios.
Ahora puedes visitar tu sitio web Weebly, y se actualizará y redirigirá a tu sitio web WordPress.
Paso 5: Establecer Enlaces permanentes
Su sitio web Weebly puede tener una estructura de URL diferente para entradas de blog y páginas. Por lo general, es algo como esto:
Para entradas de blog: http://example.com/blog/your-post-title/
Para páginas: http://example.com/page-title.html
Si estabas usando un dominio personalizado en tu sitio Weebly, entonces los usuarios que visiten una entrada de tu antiguo blog Weebly verán un error 404.
A continuación se explica cómo asegurarse de que los usuarios son redirigidos a la entrada correcta.
Deberá visitar la página Ajustes ” Enlaces permanentes. Desplácese hacia abajo y seleccione la opción “Estructura personalizada” y, a continuación, añada /blog/%postname% en el campo de texto situado a su lado.
No olvide hacer clic en el botón “Guardar cambios” para actualizar sus enlaces permanentes.
Ahora, debe añadir .html al final de las URL de sus páginas de WordPress.
Tendrás que instalar y activar el plugin Add Any Extension to Pages. Para más detalles, consulta nuestra guía paso a paso sobre cómo instalar un plugin de WordPress.
Una vez activado, debe visitar Ajustes ” Añadir cualquier extensión a las páginas. Simplemente introduzca .html en los ajustes del plugin y haga clic en el botón “Actualizar ajustes”.
Ahora, debe visitar la página Ajustes ” Enlaces permanentes y hacer clic en el botón guardar cambios para actualizar su estructura de enlaces permanentes.
Paso 6: Diagnosticar problemas
Aquí tienes algunas cosas que puedes necesitar después de transferir tu sitio de Weebly a WordPress.
1. Importar o sustituir imágenes
WordPress intentará importar las imágenes de tu sitio web Weebly a WordPress durante la importación. Sin embargo, si tus imágenes no se descargan en la biblioteca de medios, tendrás que importarlas. Consulte nuestra guía sobre cómo importar imágenes externas en WordPress para obtener instrucciones detalladas paso a paso.
2. Corrección de errores en WordPress
Si aparecen errores en su sitio de WordPress después de la transferencia, consulte nuestra guía definitiva sobre los errores más comunes de WordPress y cómo corregirlos.
3. Qué hacer después de instalar WordPress
Si todo va bien, ya estará listo para personalizar su nuevo sitio web y aprovechar la enorme flexibilidad de WordPress. Consulte nuestra lista de cosas importantes que debe hacer después de instalar WordPress.
Esperamos que este artículo te haya ayudado a migrar de Weebly a WordPress. También puedes consultar nuestra lista de plugins de WordPress imprescindibles para sitios web empresariales y nuestra guía WordPress vs. Weebly.
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Nicole
Hi!
Thank you so much for this tutorial – it was much needed help!
Now, after struggling quite a bit to get my Weebly content migrated to Wordpress (“no content found”) I finally managed to get it sorted by trying Firefox instead of Chrome. I do however have a problem; all of my blog posts were transferred, but despite checking the boxes (as said in the video tutorial) it seems that non of my categories nor comments where migrated along with the rest of the Weebly content. Why is that? Is there something I can do to fix this?
Thank you!
/Nicole
WPBeginner Support
Hi Nicole,
You can try regenerating another export file and then import it. WordPress importer is smart enough to not avoid duplicate content, this way you would be able to import any content that didn’t import earlier.
Administrador
Missy Zane
Wow! Thank you! I thought I was going to have to rebuild a 77-page website on WordPress. You saved me a lot of time and work!
Mike Trapp
I keep trying to use this tool but tells me no content, we have 500+ blogs.
Any pointers to give that I can try?
Jason
You need to turn off SSL in Weebly before the export program will work.
Mike trapp
I am trying to export our 500_ blogs from weebly to WP
The site is venturethewild.com.
The tool says no content found.
But when I try the tool on
which is just a dummy test site I made it works.
Any ideas?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Mike,
We are not sure and we are looking into it. Meanwhile can you please try again later. Try adding your URL with and without www or try exporting in RSS format.
Administrador
Mike Trapp
I have tried all those suggestions, no luck.
I can get a RSS feed file saved, but its in the “atom” format and WP wont read it in, plus it only gives 10 blog posts.
Marissa
I’m having the same issue
WPBeginner Support
Thank you for letting us know, we are continuing to look into possible causes and solutions for this issue
Morgan
Hello team,
I’m always stuck when I try to generate the exporting file. It always fails. Is it because the website file on weebly is too big? Is there another way to do this? I tried to import using RSS and it still doesn’t work.
Thank you very much!
Madison
Hey there! I have tried giving it hours and even days between trying to use the import tool… I’m still getting the same error that there is no content. I’ve even tried different browsers on three different IP addresses. Still no luck…
Reka
Hi Madison,
I kept running into the same problem (with all browsers possible).
Then I realized that I have SSL certification enabled on my Weebly website which might be causing the trouble, so I disabled it, republished the site without SSL. I’ve tried weeblytowp converter with the Weebly site republished without SSL (please, note that it means that your URL will start with http instead of https this way), and it worked immediately.
If it applies to you it’s worth giving it a shot.
Linda
Hello! I paid for my domain name through Weebly but now I want to use it for a WordPress blog. I don’t need to import any content (it wasn’t a blog before), but I don’t want to pay two hosts for the same domain name.
Can I just link my paid domain name into WordPress?
Thanks!
-Linda
WPBeginner Support
Hi Linda,
You can keep your domain name on Weebly and still point it to your WordPress blog. You can also transfer your domain registration from Weebly to your new hosting provider. See our guide on the difference between domain names and hosting for more information.
Administrador
Leanne
Hello,
Thank you so much for creating this tool! I have a question about the export file. In your information above you refer to the export file being a .WXR format, but we keep receiving a .XML option only. Are we doing something incorrectly?
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Madison
Hey there! I have tried giving it hours and even a whole day… I’m still getting the same error. I’ve even tried different browsers on three different IP addresses. Still no luck…
Madison
It says there is no content to export. I’m entering in the correct URL. Copied it straight from my weebly site… I keep trying but get the same result. HELP?!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Madison,
Please retry after few hours. Sometimes due to memory issues it can give you this error.
Administrador
Madison
Hey there! I have tried giving it hours and even a whole day… I’m still getting the same error. I’ve even tried different browsers on three different IP addresses. Still no luck…
Nadja
Hi there,
I was following the video but the bluehost and all looks different to me and I didn’t have to install wordpress. Do you know if that is new?
Btw super thanks for all your great guides
Richard
Great article and 95% of it has worked like a charm!!
The last 5% is the domain hosting.
What if you didn’t buy or transfer your custom domain name to weebly?
My domain name is hosted by a local company and just points to weebly.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Richard,
In that case, you just need to change DNS settings and point them to your new hosting provider.
Administrador
Tatjana
It is saying I have an invalid URL which is simply not true. The webpage I am trying to move is:
Please advise why this is not working.
Many thanks!
Tatjana
WPBeginner Support
Hi Tatjana,
We were able to generate an export file for the URL you provided. May be the service was temporarily down. Can you please give it another try?
Administrador
arfa saira
This is brilliant – thank you! Just one question though…my weebly site is a specific domain name which also has an associated gmail account with it (using the actual domain name) and my main concern is losing that email address or it not working any longer. What’s the best way to move this all over? I did consider creating a new website with a new domain and simply creating a re-direct on it…but don’t really fancy paying for two lots of everything. What’s the best way to proceed?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Arfa,
We assume that the Gmail account uses your domain name like usename@example.com. This means you are using Gsuite or Google Apps for Work. Please contact their support directly and they will be able to guide you better.
Administrador
Tatjana
Thank you for the tutorial, I am willing to try it out but am a bit confused on how to proceed. I have my website and blog on weebly under a custom domain and I want to keep this name also on my new wordpress site. This would mean I do not want to purchase a new domain. I just want to change the hosting to bluehost and then create my new WP site and use the domain name that I am currently using with weebly. Is it possible at all? Of course I need my old site to go on functioning for as long as the new WP one is not ready.
Is it possible? Or I need to necessarily purchase a new domain? Mmh… I’m just at a loss and hope you can help!
I’d also be happy to pay for someone to guide me through this procedure. Thank you for any tips you can give!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Tatjana,
You can signup for Bluehost and they will allow you to use a temporary address for your website. You can use it to build your WordPress site. Once you are ready to move, you can go a head and change the domain name settings ‘Name Servers’ and point them to Bluehost’s nameservers. This will ensure minimum downtime for your visitors.
However, once you have changed name servers you will need to update WordPress URLs because they will still be using the temporary address. Go to Settings > General and add your domain name in WordPress Address and Site Address fields. You will also need to update URLs in posts and pages using the Velvet Blues Update URLs plugin.
Administrador
Dee
Thank you for this tutorial. I have wanted to move my Weebly site for months. I have a relatively small site with lots of images, and the folks over at Upwork told me it would take 40 hours and hundreds of dollars to move my site. Seemed unreasonable to me.
Can’t wait to try this out.
QUESTION? I have a custom domain name in weebly, and will be moving to a completely new site name on wordpress. Presume my custom site name will work with the weeblytowp.com tool.
QUESTION? I have several private pages that are only accessible with a member login. Do I need to make these pages public in order for them to move over? I am just trying to think this through before I start the process? If they have to be public, then maybe I can copy them in Weebly and just name them something obsure and hide the navigation. This could be a temporary solution.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Dee,
Yes, you can use your custom domain name on your new WordPress website.
Yes, you will need to make those pages public before you run the importer tool. You can make them private again once you have downloaded your export file.
Administrador
Mary
I have the page in weebly and it is very well positioned in google, if I change to make a new page in wordpress can affect my positioning in the search engines? is it possible to import just the blog articles from weebly to a new wordpress?
Miguel
hi first of all thanks for this tool.
i have a problem:
weeblytowp tells me to enter a valid URL in the weebly website URL box, im using a custom domain what can i do?
Joel Levine
How about if you want to migrate a store website? Thanks
Jace Reese
I got my website to transfer, however it only transferred 11 out of my 15 blog posts. Any suggestions?
H. Baker
I keep receiving the following error when I input information into the transfer form:
“The weeblytowp.com page isn’t working
weeblytowp.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500”
Please let me know what I can do to remedy this.
WPBeginner Support
Hi,
This error may appear if you have an unusually large Weebly site. To solve this you can put half content on your Weebly site into draft mode, and then try again. If you succeed, then download your XML file. Now go back to Weebly and put the other half of your content to draft, and publish the other half. Try to export it again with.
You will now have two files to import in WordPress. You can import them one by one.
Administrador
Donal
Hi Guys,
I want to move from Weebly to a completely new WordPress install with a different hosting company.
I’m using a “proper” domain name (just like “mysite.com”) on Weebly and I want to continue to use this domain name on my new website.
When I sing up to my new hosting account what domain name should I use until I move my Weebly Content?
Will I be able to enter “mysite.com” as the domain name when I create the hosting account?
If “mysite.com” is pointing to my Weebly website how will I be able to access the WordPress dashboard in my new hosting account?
I know that’s a lot of questions, but I’m a bit confused…
Thanks.
D.
Casey
I am getting the same error – that there is “no content” in my weebly blog to be found. I am wondering if this is built to only export recent articles perhaps? Like within the last 30 days (like some RSS feeds), and maybe that is the problem?
I hope you can provide insight, as I was really hinging my new WordPress site on being able to export the old site. Thank you.
Haleema
That’s a very useful guide.
However, I am stuck at the stage where I tried to transfer the weebly content to Wordpress. I have followed all the steps to the point. I got an error message saying: “Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export”.
How do I go about this?
Santosh
Hello,
I am trying to export the Weebly content but it keeps on saying there is no content on your weebly blog. Are you entering the right website url.
But everything is correct while requesting to export the file. Can you please help ?
Thank You.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Santosh,
Can you please try again after while. If it still doesn’t work, then please leave another comment here with your Weebly site’s URL and we will check it out.
Administrador
Santosh
Hello,
Thank you for giving your time.
Unfortunately the tool still not working. Here is the website for which i am trying to export data to xml for WordPress Purpose.
One more thing : In my case the WordPress domain and the weebly domain is same when importing and exporting it to new self hosted server. So in this case do i import first, change the domain to point to new host and export the file in WordPress ? Please Confirm.
Looking forward to your response.
Thank you
WPBeginner Support
Hi Santosh,
The issue should have been fixed. Please try again, let us know if you come across any issues.
Casey
I am getting the same issue as Santosh. Suggestions?
WPBeginner Support
Hey Case,
Can you please try again, let us know if you continue facing the issue.
Santosh
Hello,
I am waiting for your response. It seems most of the users getting same error and all were looking for help. Can you please reply back with solution so that we can move forward over to the next step ?
Thank you.
Eric Lavelanet
I currently am using the same domain name for my weebly site as I’m trying to set up with bluehost. How do I set up my wordpress website before cancelling my weebly site?
mike porter
I tried numerous times to use the tool, but it constantly errors out
This page isn’t working
weeblytowp.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
Weebly site has 235 pages, I paid a contracter to move this a year ago, and they failed to move anything but the blog post. So far your tool is not doing anything but crashing.
WPBeginner Support
Hey Mike,
It is working fine at our end at the moment. Can you please retry and let us know if you still see the error?
Administrador
Dariusz
Hello,
It seems your importer only imported blog pages. M
But nmajority of my site is in html pages and are not imported.
Your import file is only around 5 MB and ny zip archive file taken from Weebly 121 MB.
So, it seems that your importer do not import regular html pages. Pity.
Maybe HTML Import 2 plugin can help? But this plugin do not import th content, i think.
Hopeless matter in case, only weebly html pages to import.
Regards,
Dariusz
Mallory
Is the importer still working? I just get an error message every time
WPBeginner Support
Hey Mallory,
What error message do you see?
Administrador
Mallory
“This page isn’t working
weeblytowp.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500”
WPBeginner Support
Hi Mallory,
It is working fine at our end, please give it another try.
Mallory
I have gotten nothing but error messages for months. “Internal Server Error”
I’m at a loss
Clayton
Hello,
Thanks for the walkthrough.
One question, i have a custom domain name through GoDaddy, that url is where my weebly site was, now i have built a wordpress site. I want to point my domain to my new wordpress site thats hosted on bluehost (like you suggested). My question is, when i put in the header code on the weebly settings, is the domain going to be the domain that i used for weebly, or is it going to be the one i used to build the new wordpress site, i would like the weebly domain to now be my wordpress site’s domain.
thanks for your help.
/C
WPBeginner Support
Hey Clayton,
If you already have a custom domain, then you can point to Bluehost and use the same domain on your Bluehost site.
Administrador
Laurie Krieg
Hi!
Will Facebook “likes” on posts transfer?
WPBeginner Support
If you are using a custom domain name, then yes.
Administrador
WPBeginner Support
If you were using a custom domain name on Weebly, then yes.
Administrador
Will
Okay so I tried to do this and I ran into a problem.
The problem is on my Weebly site, most of my content wasn’t posted in “blog” form. In other words, I posted the vast majority of my blog-like content as its own page. This was a creative choice I made at the time that I still think I kind of prefer, but none of this content migrated from Weebly to Wordpress, I assume because it’s not technically in “blog form.”
To illustrate what I’m talking about, you can see that all of the articles listed here didn’t make it, when you look at my current version of the Wordpress site.
I do have some content that crossed over that is in blog form as you can see on the Wordpress site, but not only is that all that has crossed over, but Wordpress combined two separate blogs from my Weebly site.
I’m just not sure where to go from here. Do I have to copy and paste everything else?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
WPBeginner Support
Hey Will,
The plugin can import your pages too. Please click on the pages in WordPress admin area to see if the missing content is already there.
If it isn’t, then we will advise you to get a new export file from Weebly2WP and then run the importer again. It is smart enough not import duplicate content so you can safely run it again on the same WordPress install.
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WPBeginner Support
Hey Will,
We can now confirm that the import was successful and your pages are there. Now you would need to follow the instructions mentioned at Step 5 in the article to add .html extension to your pages.
Administrador
Will Penney
Forgive me if this gets mentioned and I didn’t see it, but my question is this: Once this is done, it doesn’t remove your content from Weebly, right? I’d like to give this a shot, but don’t want to risk losing my site as it currently is to do so.
WPBeginner Support
Hey Will,
No, it does not delete anything from Weebly.
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Mallory
Thanks for this step-by-step guide! I’m trying to use your tool to transfer everything, but I’m getting an error message:
“The weeblytowp.com page isn’t working
weeblytowp.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500”
WPBeginner Support
Hi Mallory,
Please try again in a few minutes. Let us know if you still the error.
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Sarah
Thank you for this detailed tutorial. I have a question though. I have a weebly site that uses weebly’s membership feature. Members have to log in to assess certain pages of my site. Will I be able to move this over to wordpress? How does it work? Will members still be able to log in to the new wordpress pages using their current login username and password?
WPBeginner Support
Hey Sarah,
Unfortunately this will not work. The tool can only import content using the sitemap and can import users it finds as authors for the content. It will import all publicly accessible posts, pages, and comments.
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Matt
My posts from my Weebly site imported okay, but is there a way to make sure that if say someone clicked on the post from a Facebook page, that it would redirect to the new post on WordPress? Also, I had different pagelinks at the top of my Weebly site, how do I reconnect them on WordPress? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
WPBeginner Support
Hey Matt,
If you were using a custom domain then all users will be redirected to your new WordPress site. For links you will need to setup navigation menus.
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Barb
With the first step being getting a domain name, I’d like to keep the one I use on Weebly, which is myname.com. Can I use that? Or in the transfer process, will I get an error message about that one not being available? And my Weebly site includes a drop-down portfolio where I created strings of samples by company name. Will those transfer just fine? Thank you!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Barb you can keep your domain name and point it to your WordPress website. You will be able to import content like post and pages, images, comments, etc.
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Cliff
Hi This looks really useful – not seen this question asked so will ask now – can you use this tool to export a weebly site – posts and pages plus media and then import those pages into an already existing WordPress site with its own pages and Posts?
Will the existing WordPress pages and posts be left intact and will the timestamp of the Weebly posts and pages be preserved so that they are slotted into the existing WordPress site correctly?
Scenario is a school has two seperate websites one on WordPress and one on Weebly and they want to merge to two on the WP one.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Cliff,
Yes, it will do that. However, you should always backup your existing WordPress site just to be safe.
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Marcie
This looks really doable! I’m wanting to switch my blog from Weebly to Wordpress. Will the comments on my blog transfer too? I can’t tell from this post.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Marcie,
Yes, it will import comments as well.
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Erich
I just used this tool and it’s fantastic ! I’m a Wordpress beginner and it was pretty easy ! One question though – my Weebly websdite had many YouTube videos and when they transferred over, the size of the video screen was a lot smaller. I made a new post to the Wordpress version with a new YouTube video and that one is a lot bigger. Is there a way of making the imported ones larger ? Thanks again for this great tool !
PenName
With this free tool (which sounds like a great idea) to make migrating a weebly site to WP easy, how can I be certain that nobody else can use the url for my weebly site and steal the content and integrate it’s contents to their own WP site?
Erich
I currently run about 5 Weebly websites. It’s getting expensive to pay the renewal costs. I also have several WP websites that were built for me. I’m a WP beginner, so will this work for me ? Can a beginner do it ? Also, all of my Weebly websites have a page with an Amazon store and other pages with ads from Commission Junction and several YouTube videos along with past blog posts. Will all of these items also transfer to the new WP site ? Thanks for any help you can give me !
WPBeginner Support
Hi Enrich,
Yes, as a beginner you can do it on your own. All your Weebly pages will transfer and your YouTube videos should work too.
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Erich
Thanks for the quick reply ! Appreciate that. So sll of my CJ ad code will transfer over as well ? I just wwnt to make sure. This is a free tool ?
Szilvia
I get this message during using the importer:
“Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?”
The url was correct. How can I import my blog?
Thank you
Szilvia
Finally I could use the tool with Firefox, but I could not with Chrome. Thank you
WPBeginner Support
Glad to hear that
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WPBeginner Support
Hi Szilvia,
Can you please share your Weebly site’s URL?
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Szilvia
Thank you very much, It is really big help for me!
If I use your code in weebly seo settings to redirect my free mydomain.weebly.com subdomain to my new wp domain, than what will happen to the previous seo work, Google rankings, backlinks, pagerank, etc? Will my rankings change? Thank you
WPBeginner Support
Since you are transferring from Weebly subdomain, your SEO rankings will not transfer. However, since your content is not available on your old site, search engines may eventually start ranking your new site for those keywords.
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Szilvia
Thank you very much.
Norine
I was quite pleased to discover this post and tool as I have a client who has asked me to move their weebly site to WordPress.
However I tried it just now and it says:
“Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?…”
Which is very odd because the weebly site really is there.
Am I doing something wrong? I have googled the problem but haven’t found anyone with a similar issue. Is there a support forum in which I could post this?
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Norine,
This error could appear if your Weebly site’s sitemap is empty. Please use our contact form to send your Weebly site’s URL so that we can take a look.
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Norine
On its way. Thanks very much!
samsul arifin
I’m having the same problem, how to fix it?
Lisa
Hello! Thank you so much for this tutorial it was really helpful! But on my website I have a page called “Blog” and that is where I want to post all of my old blog posts from Weebly. How should I manage to place the content there?
Carla
WOW!!! Thanks so much for providing this tutorial. I had been stressing about making this move complete. I had NO idea that it would be this EASY to do and for the last month I’ve had both my weebly (with the bulk of my content) and my newly created wordpress (with very little content) blogs going. Thanks to you as of today they are officially MERGED :-). I did it i less than 30 minutes since I already had some of the steps completed. Anyway needless to say – I am ecstatic about all of this. THANKS again!!!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Carla,
We are glad you found it helpful
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Julia
Ah, I wish this had been around a year or so ago when I moved my site from Weebly to Wordpress. I lost all my comments as I was told there was no way to move them across, and I had to copy and paste all my blog posts and backdate them. It’s good to see that the hole’s been filled for others now though.
Rajendra Zore
Hey Guys,
Firstly, thank you for weebly-to-wp tool. This will definitely expedite the process of exporting WXR File now.
Those new to such kind of migration, please know that there are less/no free tools available to export your Weebly site and convert it into WordPress (WXR). So, once again thanks to folks at WPBeginner.
Just 2 days back I did the Weebly to WP migration for one of my client. Lucky she was not interested in Comments & Pages but Posts & Images.
I did that thru RSS Format. By the way, Weebly feeds use the ATOM format rather than RSS. I have used one Tool to convert that to RSS Format.
Finally, have managed to migrate Posts. But…for Images, I have exported entire Weebly Blog & Uploaded the “uploads” folder into Root Directory as the Images were getting fetched via domainname.com/uploads/… in Weebly & can be set easily on Self-hosted WP w/o altering the internal links (if domain is same; Find-Replace, otherwise) or Need any plugin to import external links!
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Raj
WPBeginner Support
Hi Rajendra,
Thanks for your sharing your Weebly to WordPress migration story. It was quite difficult even for experienced users to safely transfer their content to WordPress. Now with our free Weebly to WordPress Importer this process will become a lot easier.
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Rajendra Zore
Amazing Work, thank you once again
Yakubu
Thanks