Voulez-vous passer de Weebly à WordPress ?
Oui, il est possible de migrer tout votre contenu Weebly vers WordPress sans faire appel à un développeur/développeuse ou savoir coder. Nous avons Version d’un outil gratuit d’importation de Weebly vers WordPress qui fait tout cela pour vous.
Dans cet article, nous allons vous afficher comment passer correctement de Weebly à WordPress (étape par étape).
Pourquoi migrer de Weebly à WordPress ?
Choisir WordPress plutôt que Weebly se résume à une question de flexibilité et de contrôle.
WordPress est la plateforme web par excellence. Il s’agit d’un logiciel libre, ce qui signifie qu’une vaste communauté de développeurs/développeuses améliore constamment ses permissions.
Vous avez accès à des milliers de thèmes et d’extensions, ce qui vous permet de redimensionner et de personnaliser votre site à volonté. Que vous configuriez un simple blog ou un site de commerce électronique complexe, WordPress peut tout gérer.
Weebly est simple/simple d’utilisation et idéal si vous souhaitez créer un site rapidement et avec un minimum d’efforts. Cependant, ses fonctionnalités de personnalisation sont limitées et il ne dispose pas de toutes les permissions de référencement offertes par WordPress.
D’après notre expérience, la plupart des gens ne choisissent pas la meilleure plateforme de blog lorsqu’ils débutent. Au lieu de cela, vous êtes plus susceptible d’opter pour l’une des nombreuses solutions hébergeurs comme Weebly parce que vous avez entendu dire que c’était facile et que c’était gratuit.
Malheureusement, WordPress a parfois mauvaise presse, et il existe de nombreux mythes à son sujet qui ne sont tout simplement pas vrais.
Une fois que vous êtes plus dans le blog et que vous apprenez le référencement, la monétisation, la personnalisation, etc, alors vous avez ce moment oops parce que vous réalisez que vous avez fait le mauvais choix.
Vous découvrez que WordPress est effectivement le meilleur système de gestion de contenu qui soit.
C’est alors que vous commencez à paniquer, car vous ne voulez pas que votre dur labeur soit gâché.
Ne vous inquiétez pas, ce n’est pas le cas. Nous avons aidé des centaines de personnes à passer de Weebly à WordPress. Aucun, vous n’avez pas besoin de connaître le code. Si vous pouvez suivre des instructions et pointer et cliquer, vous pouvez transférer votre site Weebly vers WordPress.
Oui, il vous faudra environ une heure pour migrer correctement de Weebly à WordPress, mais cela en vaut vraiment la peine.
Offre gratuite en bonus : Comme beaucoup d’entre vous l’ont demandé, nous offrons maintenant un service gratuit de migration de Weebly vers WordPress dans le cadre de notre service gratuit de configuration de blogs WordPress. Cela signifie que l’un des membres de notre équipe d’experts effectuera toute la migration pour vous (100% gratuitement). Oui, vous pouvez littéralement passer de Weebly à WordPress sans aucun risque.
Toutefois, si vous aimez apprendre et faire les choses vous-même, vous pouvez suivre notre tutoriel étape par étape ci-dessous.
Vous êtes prêts ? Premiers pas.
Tutoriel vidéo de Weebly à WordPress
Si vous n’aimez pas les tutoriels vidéo ou si vous voulez avancer à votre rythme, continuez à lire les instructions ci-dessous.
Étape par étape : Premiers pas
Pour créer un blog WordPress, vous avez besoin de deux choses :
- Un nom de domaine (c’est le nom de votre blog, par exemple, WPBeginner.com)
- Un compte d’hébergeur (c’est l’endroit où votre site est domicilié sur l’internet)
Si WordPress est gratuit, le domaine et l’hébergeur sont payants (14,99 $ par an pour le domaine et 7,99 $ par mois pour l’hébergeur).
Heureusement, Bluehost, un fournisseur d’hébergement officiel recommandé par WordPress, a accepté d’offrir à nos utilisateurs/utilisatrices un nom de domaine gratuit et plus de 73 % de réduction sur l’hébergement web.
Si, pour une raison ou une autre, vous souhaitez d’autres options, vous pouvez alors consulter notre liste des meilleurs hébergeurs WordPress.
Une fois que vous avez configuré votre domaine et votre hébergeur, l’étape suivante consiste à installer WordPress. Nous vous proposons un guide étape par étape sur l ‘installation de WordPress.
Une fois l’installation de WordPress terminée, vous êtes prêt à passer à l’étape suivante, qui consiste à transférer votre contenu Weebly vers WordPress.
Étape par étape : Exportation du contenu de votre site Weebly
Dans le passé, il était beaucoup trop difficile pour les utilisateurs/utilisatrices de passer de Weebly à WordPress parce qu’il n’était pas facile d’exporter les données de Weebly.
Nous avons décidé de résoudre ce problème et avons développé/développé une importation gratuite de Weebly vers WordPress.
Il s’agit d’un outil en ligne gratuit qui importe votre contenu depuis Weebly et le convertit dans un format d’importation compatible avec WordPress. Il n’apporte aucune modification à votre site Weebly existant, il est donc parfaitement sûr à utiliser.
Titre sur le site Weebly to WordPress Outil d’importation et saisissez l’URL de votre site Weebly.
Il vous sera demandé de fournir votre nom et votre adresse e-mail et de sélectionner un format d’exportation.
L’option par défaut est le format WXR, et vous ne devriez pas la modifier, sauf si vous rencontrez un problème ultérieurement.
Ensuite, vous devez choisir si vous souhaitez inclure des pages dans votre fichier d’exportation. L’option par défaut est » Oui « , et vous n’avez pas besoin de la modifier non plus, sauf si vous ne voulez vraiment pas exporter les pages Weebly.
Ensuite, vous devez cliquer sur le bouton « Exporter mon site Weebly ».
Weebly to WordPress Outil d’importation récupère désormais le contenu de votre site Weebly et le convertit en un fichier d’exportation compatible avec WordPress.
Vous verrez un bouton pour télécharger votre fichier d’exportation Weebly. Vous devez cliquer dessus avec le bouton droit de la souris et sélectionner « Enregistrer le lien sous » dans le menu.
Le fichier export.xml est alors téléchargé sur votre ordinateur.
Étape par 3 : Importation du contenu de Weebly dans WordPress
Maintenant que vous avez votre contenu Weebly dans un format compatible avec WordPress, il est temps de l’importer dans WordPress.
Connectez-vous à votre zone d’administration et rendez-vous sur la page Outils » Importation.
Vous verrez une liste d’importateurs disponibles pour différentes plateformes. Vous devez défiler jusqu’à WordPress, puis cliquer sur le lien » Installer maintenant « .
WordPress va maintenant chercher l’extension d’importation et l’installer sur votre site WordPress sans recharger la page.
Une fois le programme installé, vous devez cliquer sur « Exécuter Outil d’importation » pour le lancer.
Cela vous amènera à la page d’importation de WordPress. Cliquez sur le bouton « Choisissez un fichier » pour sélectionner le fichier export.xml que vous avez téléchargé plus tôt.
Cliquez ensuite sur le bouton « Téléverser le fichier et l’importer » pour continuer.
L’outil d’importation WordPress va maintenant téléverser et analyser votre fichier d’exportation. Sur l’écran suivant, il vous demandera d’assigner des auteurs/autrices.
Vous pouvez importer une auteur/autrice de votre site Weebly, créer une nouvelle auteur/autrice ou assigner tout le contenu à votre utilisateur/utilisatrice WordPress existant(e).
N’oubliez pas de cocher la case située à côté de l’option » Télécharger et importer des fichiers joints « . Cela permettra de récupérer les images de votre site Weebly dans la médiathèque de WordPress afin que vous puissiez les utiliser ultérieurement.
Vous pouvez maintenant cliquer sur le bouton « Envoyer » pour lancer l’importation. WordPress va maintenant importer le contenu du fichier d’exportation dans votre base de données WordPress. Il essaiera également de récupérer les images liées à vos publications et pages de blog Weebly.
Une fois l’opération terminée, un message de réussite s’affiche.
Félicitations, vous avez bien importé le contenu de votre blog Weebly vers WordPress. Vous pouvez maintenant aller dans les publications, les pages et les catégories dans la zone d’administration de WordPress pour voir si tout votre contenu est là. Vérifiez également la médiathèque pour voir les images importées de votre site Weebly.
Si le processus d’importation échoue en cours de route, vous pouvez toujours le relancer. L’Outil d’importation est suffisamment intelligent pour détecter les contenus en double et les passer. Il importera uniquement le contenu qui n’a pas été importé bien lors de la tentative précédente.
Étape par étape : Réglages des redirections
Si vous utilisiez un domaine personnalisé sur votre site Weebly (comme yoursite.com), vous devez le faire pointer vers votre fournisseur d’hébergement WordPress.
Tout d’abord, vous devez vous connecter à votre compte Weebly et vous rendre sur la page Domaines. Cliquez sur le nom de domaine que vous souhaitez modifier, puis sur la page Réglages du domaine, cliquez sur le bouton ‘Modifier’ à côté de l’option Serveurs de noms.
Sur l’écran suivant, vous devez saisir les serveurs de noms de votre nouvel hébergeur WordPress. Pour Bluehost, il s’agit de ns1.bluehost.com et ns2.bluehost.com.
Cliquez sur le bouton « Enregistrer » pour stocker vos réglages.
Les modifications apportées aux serveurs de noms peuvent prendre un certain temps avant de se propager sur l’internet. Une fois que les modifications auront pris effet, les internautes commenceront à voir votre site WordPress.
Si vous utilisez une URL de sous-domaine sur votre site Weebly (comme http://example.weebly.com), voici comment configurer la redirection.
Connectez-vous à votre Tableau de bord Weebly et modifiez votre site. Ensuite, vous devez cliquer sur Réglages puis sur l’onglet Référencement.
Défilez maintenant vers le bas jusqu’à l’option de code d’en-tête et ajoutez cette ligne de code :
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/">
Remplacez yourdomain.com par le nom de domaine de votre nouveau site WordPress.
N’oubliez pas de cliquer sur les boutons « Enregistrer » et « Publier » pour enregistrer vos modifications.
Vous pouvez maintenant visiter votre site Weebly, qui sera actualisé et redirigé vers votre site WordPress.
Étape par 5 : Configurer les permaliens
Votre site Weebly peut avoir une structure d’URL différente pour les publications de blog et les pages. En règle générale, cette structure est la suivante :
Pour les publications de blogs : http://example.com/blog/your-post-title/
Pour les pages : http://example.com/page-title.html
Si vous utilisiez un domaine personnalisé sur votre site Weebly, les clientes/utilisateurs visitant une publication sur votre ancien blog Weebly verront apparaître une erreur 404.
Voici comment vous pouvez vous assurer que les utilisateurs/utilisatrices sont redirigés vers la bonne publication.
Vous devez vous rendre sur la page Réglages » Permaliens. Faites défiler vers le bas et sélectionnez l’option » Structure personnalisée « , puis ajoutez /blog/%postname% dans le champ de texte situé à côté.
N’oubliez pas de cliquer sur le bouton « Enregistrer les modifications » pour mettre à jour vos permaliens.
Vous devez maintenant ajouter .html à la fin de l’URL de vos pages WordPress.
Vous devrez installer et activer l’extension Ajouter n’importe quelle extension aux pages. Pour plus de détails, consultez notre guide étape par étape sur l’installation d’une extension WordPress.
Une fois activé, vous devez vous rendre dans Réglages » Ajouter n’importe quelle extension aux pages. Saisissez simplement .html dans les réglages de l’extension et cliquez sur le bouton » Mettre à jour les réglages « .
Maintenant, vous devez visiter la page Réglages » Permaliens et cliquer sur le bouton enregistrer les modifications pour mettre à jour votre structure permalienne.
Étape par étape : Dépannage
Voici quelques éléments dont vous pourriez avoir besoin après avoir transféré votre site de Weebly à WordPress.
1. Importation ou remplacement d’images
WordPress essaiera d’importer les images de votre site Weebly vers WordPress lors de l’importation. Cependant, si vos images ne sont pas téléchargées dans la médiathèque, alors vous devrez les importer. Consultez notre guide sur l ‘importation d’images externes dans WordPress pour obtenir des instructions détaillées étape par étape.
2. Corriger les erreurs dans WordPress
Si vous constatez des erreurs sur votre site WordPress après le transfert, consultez notre guide ultime sur les erreurs courantes de WordPress et la manière de les corriger.
3. Choses à faire après l’installation de WordPress
Si tout se passe bien, vous serez maintenant prêt à personnaliser votre nouveau site et à profiter de l’énorme flexibilité de WordPress. Consultez notre liste des choses importantes à faire après l’installation de WordPress.
Nous espérons que cet article vous a aidé à passer correctement de Weebly à WordPress. Vous pouvez également consulter notre liste des extensions WordPress indispensables pour les sites professionnels et notre guide WordPress vs Weebly.
Si vous avez aimé cet article, veuillez alors vous abonner à notre chaîne YouTube pour obtenir des tutoriels vidéo sur WordPress. Vous pouvez également nous trouver sur Twitter et Facebook.
Misao
Hello, the importer is not working. After filling out the fields, it shows Wordpress Error
WPBeginner Support
Please reach out to us using our contact form with the site and error you are seeing for us to take a look: https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Administrateur
Zara
The Weebly to WordPress Importer. is not working. I’ve tried 3 times. It does not collect any daga.
WPBeginner Support
Please reach out to us using our contact us page at the bottom of the page to elaborate on your issue.
Administrateur
Kelly
Hi I am just beginning this process and understand I transfer the nameservers as the final step, but I can’t seem to find on my weebly
‘Click on the domain name that you want to edit and then on domain settings page click on the change button next to nameservers option’
I go into the weebly site I want to move over, click on settings and within those no options for nameservers, am I looking in the right place?
WPBeginner Support
Did you purchase your domain name from another location? That could be why the option is not in Weebly
Administrateur
Noelle
Hi, I am wanting to transfer my weebly posts to Wordpress. I am interested in following this information to transfer my weebly site to Wordpress but I am lacking tech and coding skills. If I go through with the import do I then crest more content through weebly or Wordpress? Does it completely get rid of weebly. I purchased my domain through weebly I believe
WPBeginner Support
If you wanted to transfer the site then you would create your new content on the new WordPress site after following the tutorial. This guide will redirect users to your new site using WordPress but you will still have access to the Weebly content from your admin end.
Administrateur
Susan
Hi, this may be a basic question but I like the look of my website on Weebly. Does the transfer keep the framework and look of the website? Or does it mean I have to find a new wordpress template to display the content.
Thanks
WPBeginner Support
You would need to find a new theme for your site as it does not transfer the look of your site. There are page builder plugins you can use to recreate your current design if you wanted.
Administrateur
Chris
Hi, great article. Do you have a tool like this but for migrations other than Weebly? I built a landing page on a third-party service, but would now like to duplicate it in my wordpress site. It’s just one page. Ideas?
WPBeginner Support
It would depend on the specific service for what is available.
Administrateur
Chris
It’s on Agile CRM.
WPBeginner Support
Sadly, we do not have a recommended exporter at the moment.
Sakthi
I need to import my website which has nearly 400 blog post. Your tools is loading and throwing an error at the end as technical difficulties.
Please, i need the wxr file for all my blog post.
WPBeginner Support
For larger sites please reach out to us using our contact form for us to be able to assist.
Administrateur
admin
We used your tool to export blog data from Weebly and then import into Wordpress. It seemed to work fine but with one major exception: the blog titles did not import.
Do you have advice on a fix? Should we try to import again (over existing blog data) or manually enter all the titles to each blog post (about 120 blog posts)?
WPBeginner Support
You may want to try recreating the export file to ensure it didn’t have a hiccup and then reimporting.
Administrateur
Bill
So, what if the Weebly site is one of the ones that are offered through HostGator and the WordPress I want to use is also on HostGator. Will the tool work in that instance?
WPBeginner Support
If you’re using the same host then you could set up a staging site to set up the new site while the old site is active: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/
Administrateur
Chris
I read through the article, and noticed you hadn’t addressed comments. Do the comments also get imported, through the Weebly default comment box. Or is that one of the things the importer doesn’t do?
It’s important for me to know, as I recently signed up with Weebly and didn’t realise how lame their comments section for blogs were. I’m deciding whether I should use Disqus instead of the default – as it seems to have more options, as far as commenting goes. But I wouldn’t switch, if I knew the WP importer, could only import my default comments. If at all???
WPBeginner Support
The exporter should include your comments on your site, if you wanted to test it you can create a local installation using:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#installlocal
Administrateur
Sam Morgan
Hi there. I first want to say that I used this guide successfully to move from weebly to wordpress (after disabling ssl to export weebly data), so thanks!
I have a domain related question.
I told bluehost that I own my domian ieltstutors.org, though Im building my wordpress site on a temp domain given by bluehost.
Am I right in saying that after I have finish building my WP site, all I need to do is change my weebly nameservers to bluehost? Do I then just go to bluehost and press « transfer to bluehost »?
Is there a way to do this so that the site doesn’t go down?
Thanks for all your help!
WPBeginner Support
When you are ready you would want to change the domain’s nameservers to BlueHost and then update your site’s url to the correct domain and use a tool like the one from our article here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-update-urls-when-moving-your-wordpress-site/
You should also be able to reach out to BlueHost to help you update your domain if you wanted.
Administrateur
Kate
Thank you for leaving your comment! I was struggling to export my weebly site with the weeblytowp application until I turned off SSL.
Thank you!
Carlos
I’m having issues downloading the WXR version of my Weebly site. I’m getting the « Could not find any content in your Weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? » Message.
Am I missing something? It’s a full website I want to migrate, no blog attached to it. Could that be the reason I’m getting an error? I’m looking to move a few sites any insight would great.
Carlos
WPBeginner Support
That message can happen when you attempt to export a very large site but if you run into that error please reach out to us using our contact form for us to take a look
Administrateur
Carlos
Will do doing that now I think I came across your contact page somewhere on the thread. thanks!
WPBeginner Support
If not in the comments, we have the link in our footer
Denise
If I already have a Weebly site with a domain through Bluehost, is switching it to WordPress easier? At one point my website was giving a large error and the site was unaccesible because both Weebly and WordPress were trying to work on the website at the same time. We changed to Weebly for simplicity, but now I would really like to move us to Wordpress so that we have the ability to customize far more than what we have right now.
Thanks!
WPBeginner Support
The difficulty would be due to wanting to install WordPress in the same location as your current site. You can create an installation on your local computer: https://www.wpbeginner.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#installlocal
and once you set up your site there, you can overwrite the site on your host using: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-from-local-server-to-live-site/
Administrateur
Emilia Amaro
Hi there! Thanks for the informative post!
I’m trying to use the weeblytowp for my client’s site but the result keeps saying « there is no content on this website ».
I’m confused because there is over 4 years of blog posts I’m trying to transfer over.
Can you help?
WPBeginner Support
More than likely the exporter is having an error due to how much content is on the site. If you reach out using our contact form we should be able to help.
Administrateur
Emilia Amaro
Thanks for the reply!
Where is your contact form? I’ve tried looking through the site quickly and couldn’t identify it. Could you send a link?
Thanks!
WPBeginner Support
A link to our contact page is in our footer or you can use: https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Sophie
Hi there! What if I have bought my domain through Weebly and I want to keep this same domain with my new wordpress site? I’m not whether or not to tell bluehost I « have a domain » already or not, because I no longer want to be affiliated with Weebly at all, but I want my same domain name and it’s through them. Completely lost at how I should go about this. Thanks for the help!
WPBeginner Support
You would let BlueHost know you already have a domain and then you would transfer your domain to BlueHost once you are ready
Administrateur
jenn
Is it completely necessary to add the .html for redirects? It is not on the original wix urls.
Thanks
WPBeginner Support
It would be for if you have pages, posts to not end in .html but any pages you had on Weebly would need the .html added to prevent errors with redirection.
Administrateur
Jacky
Thank you for this great tutorial. When I click on Domains, I don’t see the screen Edit Nameservers. Is it because my domain is with GoDaddy? In that case, would I have to edit that on GoDaddy? Thank you so much!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jacky,
Correct, if you purchased your domain through another registrar such as GoDaddy then you would need to edit the nameservers through them rather than Weebly
Administrateur
Jacky
Thank you! I have my blog with weebly using my .com domain. When you say transfer files, does that deactivate the weebly site or is it just just a copy of the files? I mean I want to copy the weebly files to wp, but i want to leave my weebly site live while i build the new wp. Once i finish building it, then i’ll move my domain to wp.
WPBeginner Support
It creates copies of your content, it does not remove your content
Alice Ford
When I tried to export my site it said it couldn’t find any data.
WPBeginner Support
We will certainly take a look for any errors that could be causing this with the exporter.
Administrateur
jose
How long it takes to transfer and unluck a domain form weebly to another host.
WPBeginner Support
With any domain registrar, you would need to wait 60 days from when it is first purchased. After that, you would need to reach out to Weebly for their specifics
Administrateur
Jessica
This did nothing for me. After importing to wordpress, nothing has changed on it. Stock site still in effect.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jessica,
When you are logged into WordPress admin dashboard, can you see your imported content under posts or pages? If you cannot then this mean that importer didn’t run or it didn’t find any content to import.
Administrateur
Carissa
After clicking the ‘Export my Weebly Website’ button, it changes to ‘Generating Export File’. On the bottom left side of my screen ways it says, ‘Waiting for weeblytowp.com’. After a few minutes, I get a message that says ‘504 Gateway Time-Out’. Is this because my Weebly site is too large? Or do you think this could be a technical difficulty?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Carissa,
This could be due to a large site. You can try again in a few mins. If it still doesn’t work then try to save some of your Weebly content as Drafts and then try to export.
Administrateur
Carissa
That’s what I was afraid you were going to say. Unfortunately, the bulk of the content are pages which you can’t put into draft mode on Weebly (that I’m aware of). Do you have a link that I can pay someone to do this for me? I don’t care about making it pretty (I can do that), I just need to download the Weebly site. I hope this question makes sense?
WPBeginner Support
While we don’t have a recommended location for hiring for that, you could take a look at some of the recommendations in this article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-places-to-hire-wordpress-developers/
Ashley
Thanks for the guide and tool. I’m trying to export a Weebly blog and am getting the ‘no content’ error message. I’ve disabled SSL in the Weebly editor which seems to have taken a while to take place, but I am now able to access the site via http only. However still no luck exporting the site. Any suggestions would be gratefully received!
LR
I spoke with Weebly today and asked them if it was possible to transfer a site to WP, just in case we wanted to switch down the road….. They said no
haha
Rachel
I have a domain that I purchased through Weebly, and I have designed a new site with wordpress.org.. and now I can’t figure out how to use my weebly domain for my wordpress site. The Weebly people said I need the DNS… I don’t know what that is
WPBeginner Support
Hi Rachel,
Your new host where you are hosting WordPress.org will provide you DNS server details. They usually look like this:
ns1.yourhost.com
ns2.yourhost.com
Once you know what DNS servers are used by your host, you can edit your domain settings in Weebly and point it to your new host.
Administrateur
David McKinney
Hello,
I have been trying to transfer my Weebly blog to WordPress. I keep getting the error message « Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? » I have retried the transfer at least 100 times in the past day and a half. Still no luck. Any suggestions?
WPBeginner Support
Hi David,
We are aware of the issue and our team is working on it. Meanwhile, you can try tips mentioned by other users. Some users disabled SSL and that worked for them.
Administrateur
David McKinney
Thank you.
Disabling the SSL really worked.
WPBeginner Support
Hey David,
Glad to hear that
David McKinney
Okay.
Now how do I turn the SSL back on for Weebly? Turning it off was easy. Turning it back on, not so,much. I do not want to leave it unprotected.
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Hi David,
You’d find instructions on Weebly’s website or reach out to their support.
Emily S.
I am trying to follow the video, but my Bluehost dashboard doesn’t look anything like the one pictured. I can’t figure out how to install Wordpress! Do you have any suggestions? I can’t seem to go any further because I can’t figure out how to do that step.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Emily,
Once you have logged into your Bluehost account you will see a link to log into your WordPress admin area.
Administrateur
Lerissa Patrick
WOW! I was dreading the prospect of recreating my Weebly website in WordPress … and now I don’t have to do it! Thank you so much for this nifty little tool. After a couple of false starts, it ripped right through its tasks, and I’m done! So very cool …
Jo
Hey, so I built my site, free in Weebly, and have my bluehost account. I tried using your importer but the URL Weebly provided is HTTPS not HTTP…. is that because I didn’t purchase anything from Weebly? When I run the importer tool it says that it can’t find any content on the weebly URL.
So appreciate your advice on this!
Karin
Hi, I am extracting my weebly site from ipage, which seemed to work, then imported it to wordpress following the instructions, but I can’t see it to see what it looks like. The home button at the top of the dashboard says ss_site_title when I click on it, it goes to the weebly site, how do I see what the wordpress looks like before I make it live?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Karin,
We are not sure what you mean. If you have successfully imported your Weebly content in WordPress, you will see it under ‘Posts’. It is possible that your domain name is still pointing to your Weebly website. In that case, you will need to change your domain name settings from your Weebly account and point it to your iPage hosting account by changing the DNS server settings.
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Kylen
Hey there! I’m working on moving a client from Weebly to Wordpress but i’m running into an issue with the Weebly to Wordpress importer. I’m getting an error from the converter that is saying no blog content was found. The blog in question has 13 posts and the URL is correct. tried with both the root url and the blog extension but it can’t seem to find any posts. Are there any troubleshooting options to figure out why the converter isn’t finding the posts?
Reka
Hi Kylen,
try to disable the SSL certification under Weebly settings and republish the site. After that the URL will start with http instead of https. Run the converter on the http URL. It worked for me, it might do so for you as well.
Lee Ann
Hi, I’ve been wanting to move my website from Weebly to WP for a while but have been scared about the whole process! How does this solution impact my WP theme choice? Does it create a custom theme, or write over a default? Trying to understand the process. Thanks!
caroline d
i have got the same problem as stated by other above where it is saying i have no content
Jerry Peres
I lost some content when moving from weebly to WP. On that time I was very disappointed.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jerry,
If you followed this tutorial, then your original Weebly content should be safe and you can still manually copy and paste it. You can also run the importer again, it is smart enough not to fetch duplicate content.
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Chloe
Hi, I have a weebly site but not a weebly domain name, it is not a blog but a website…can I convert it to Wordpress just as easily?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Chloe,
Yes, you can move it to WordPress by following the same instructions.
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Pat S
If I export my Weebly blog to Wordpress does it remove my content from Weebly? I would like to copy my blog to Wordpress to print the blog into a book but I do not want lose my Weebly blog formatting and content.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Pat,
No it does not remove any content.
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Shawn Williams
I am also getting the « Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export » error. Does this exporter still function?
WPBeginner Support
Hey Shawn,
Yes it still functions, however depending on the size of your website it may sometimes timeout due to memory issues. Please try again later.
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Shawn Williams
A comment on this thread indicates that the exporter will only work if the domain is also registered on Weebly, is this the case, and if so is there a workaround?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Shawn,
We don’t understand. Actually the importer would work whether you have a Weebly branded domain, a custom domain registered with Weebly, or a custom domain registered elsewhere.
Aaron
Hey there,
For some reason when I try to export my Weebly site, it is saying « Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? »
I have made sure the URL is correct and tried many times. What can I do to fix this?
Alberto
Hello.
I’m getting the same error as Aaron.
I’ve tried several times but always get the same message: “Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?”
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Alberto,
You can try again in a few minutes. Sometimes the server times out during the process.
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Alberto
Hello and thanks for replying.
I’ve tried several times but I always get the same message.
BTW, do you have to enter the username and email address used in Weebly to do the import at fields Name and Email?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Alberto,
It seems to be working.
No, you do not have to use the same name or email in order to do the import.
Linda
Hello – I am so happy to see this! Although I am a little worried about losing my content when moving from weebly to WP. Does it transfer everything across including blog and photos? Do you provide a service where you can do it for me? Please le me know. Thank you!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Linda,
Sorry, we do not offer blog transfer service for Weebly. We think you will be able to do that on your own, there may be a few hiccups but eventually you will succeed. Let us know if you run into any issues during the process and we will be glad to help.
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Kristi Bothur
Will your tool also move blog posts to the new site?
What about comments on the posts?
Petrina
Hi,
Is there a way to import products from my Weebly e-commerce shop to Woocommerce (WordPress) using this tool? I am very desperate as I have over 400 digital products that I need to transfer. I am hoping there is a way to do this. Any help would be much appreciated.
Phil
The exporter tool at weeblytowp doesn’t seem to be working. I just tried it on 2 different Weekly sites and it results in:
« Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? Go Back »
Chloe Marrable
I had the same issue, please can you help? I checked the URL…is it because my weebly site is not a blog?
sarah brechner
This is brilliant! Thanks so much. Everything transferred except for some images. I can deal with those.
NAME SERVERS: My only problem came when I tried your instructions for domain name servers. These instructions are only for those who have bought domains through Weebly. If you haven’t bought your domain through Weebly, you will not see any domains page on your account. This is important! Apparently, you must go to your outside domains registrar and make the name server changes there. I was told this by Weebly. Note: I haven’t made the name server changes to my domain registrar yet.
*So can you confirm this procedure? Many people purchase their domains elsewhere, and these instructions won’t work for us, because we don’t have a domains page in Weebly.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Sarah,
For users who purchased their domain elsewhere, they will need to login to their account on their domain registrar website to change nameserver and other settings.
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Finn McLennan-Elliott
Every time I download the export.xml file, it tells me that it is too big, its always 2.17 or 2.27 MB and it needs to be less than 2MB. If i don’t select pages its still too big. and if i choose RSS option it won’t let me upload it because its not a WXR into wordpress.
how do i make it smaller? i am unsure how to draft or unpublish parts of my site without doing it manually.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Finn,
There are two things that you can do.
1. You can increase the file upload size limit in WordPress.
2. You can split the XML file to make it smaller.
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Petrina
Hi,
Is there a way to import products from my Weebly e-commerce shop to Woocommerce (Wordpress) using this tool? I am very desperate as I have over 400 digital products that I need to transfer. I am hoping there is a way to do this. Any help would be much appreciated.
Abby
Hi
Will this work also if the weebly site have a store ?
Thank you
Becky
Oh, how I wish this had worked. but like most people in this thread, I too received the error message « Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? » Yes, the website content is online, active and working. I had been using Chrme to attempt this with no results, so I tried it in Firefox as well, which also gave no results, the same error message and took even longer. Too bad; this would be really valuable if it just did what was designed to do.
Kathleen
This tutorial is fantastic, but I’ve hit a bump in the road. When I click to « Export my Weebly website » i’m directed to a blank page. Not sure what I could be doing wrong. Thanks for making this video.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Kathleen,
Once you are redirected, you need to wait while the script runs in the background and prepares the export file. Once ready, it will be automatically begin downloading.
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Boka Mark Szasz
I did everything as suggested but not all pages came through and – most important – the visual layout didn’t came through.
I tried to import my weebly CSS to WP but I get the error :
« The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. »
And it’s true
It only has a « main_style.css » and if I try to rename it to « style.css » I get another error:
« The package could not be installed. The style.css stylesheet doesn’t contain a valid theme header. »
WPBeginner Support
Hi Boka Mark Szasz,
Unfortunately you cannot use the same website design on WordPress. You will have to use a WordPress theme for that.
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Elizabeth Gruss
I recently switched from Weebly to Wordpress using the instructions above. I’ve tried a few different wordpress themes, and most (including the first I tried) has, what I think was my old menu on weebly, as static links in the header, running over the regular stuff, and won’t go away no matter what I change in the theme settings. I have no idea how to fix this!
Cindy
I also had trouble getting my website to transfer, but once we disabled the SSL, (a security measure to protect the site), published the site without SSL (the s in https was removed), and then used the new URL, the importer worked fine.
Now my issue is trying to change my domain host. When I go to the Domains page on my Weebly account, I don’t see a domain name to click on. I see only « Transfer a Domain » (to Weebly) or « Register a Domain. » Since I already have my own domain name that I want to keep, I don’t know how to proceed. The choice I need is not there. Can you help?
sarah brechner
I had the same problem and found out via Weebly chat that I had to do this with my domain registrar, not Weebly. So directions in this tutorial are only for those who bought domains with Weebly.