The short version of my story is that I’m trying to re-platform my blog from Wix to [WP.org](http://WP.org) due to price increases at Wix and mounting fees for every feature add-on, e.g. a higher email quota and basic e-commerce features.
However, I’m really struggling with moving my blog to WP, even after watchingt 6-8 hours of video tutorials. So many tools and plugins have changed that it’s hard to stay on top of how things work and fit together.
On top of paying for a hosting platform, it seems like a everything requires a premium/pro plan to access needed features.
First, I got Elementor Pro to get a decent page builder. Now, Astra theme requires a paid plan just to add spacing between paragraphs of my blog articles. (wasn’t the case a year ago)
I’m starting to wonder how I will get all the technical and design issues solved without spending as much as Wix. I’ve got about 60 posts to migrate, so that alone is a heavy lift along with images, etc.
Seriously considering pivoting to Hostinger for greater ease of use. Any suggestions are welcome.
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DM me. We build WordPress and we are a wix partner. I can tell you what to do/help you out if you want it.
Hi buddy, it might seem tedious process but let me ease it out for you.
1. You don’t need an Astra premium theme as using Hello Theme which is free will be the best solution along with Elementor Pro for your blog. You can get everything done within these two.
2. With the hosting, I can easily recommend you the best hosting but for that I need to know how much traffic you are currently getting that way I can see if Hostinger plan is good or any other best scalable solution would be great keeping in mind the ease of use. Please let me know how much traffic you expect monthly basis.
3. For the posts, there are a couple things. You can replicate the same exact design if you prefer Wix inside Elementor Pro with your Single Page Template. The second thing is matching the URLs, your new blog should have the same URL/permalinks structure that way the traffic coming in should land at the right posts without getting into 404 errors. Fixing your permalinks can be easily done from Settings > Permalinks.
4. The easiest way for migration is to export blog posts/content from Wix which will be an XML file and import it into WordPress (all this in the staging state). It will also download images from the Wix website directly into your new posts on WordPress.
Still, if you need help, let me know. It’s going to be easy.