Möchten Sie von Weebly zu WordPress wechseln?
Ja, es ist möglich, alle Ihre Weebly-Inhalte zu WordPress zu migrieren, ohne einen Entwickler zu beauftragen oder zu wissen, wie man programmiert. Wir haben ein kostenloses Weebly-zu-WordPress-Importer-Tool entwickelt, das alles für Sie erledigt.
In diesem Artikel zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie richtig von Weebly zu WordPress umziehen (Schritt für Schritt).
Unserer Erfahrung nach entscheiden sich die meisten Leute nicht für die beste Blogging-Plattform, wenn sie zum ersten Mal damit anfangen. Stattdessen entscheiden sie sich eher für eine der vielen gehosteten Lösungen wie Weebly, weil sie gehört haben, wie einfach sie ist und dass sie kostenlos ist.
Leider hat WordPress manchmal einen schlechten Ruf, und es gibt viele Mythen darüber, die einfach nicht wahr sind.
Sobald man sich mit dem Bloggen beschäftigt und mehr über SEO, Monetarisierung, Anpassung usw. erfährt, kommt der Moment, in dem man merkt, dass man die falsche Wahl getroffen hat.
Sie stellen fest, dass WordPress in der Tat das beste Content-Management-System ist, das es gibt.
Und dann gerät man in Panik, weil man nicht will, dass die harte Arbeit umsonst war.
Keine Sorge, das wird es nicht. Wir haben Hunderten von Menschen geholfen, von Weebly zu WordPress zu wechseln. Nein, Sie müssen sich nicht mit Code auskennen. Wenn Sie die Anweisungen befolgen und mit der Maus klicken können, können Sie Ihre Weebly-Website zu WordPress übertragen.
Ja, es dauert etwa eine Stunde, um von Weebly zu WordPress zu wechseln, aber es lohnt sich.
Kostenloses Bonusangebot: Da viele von Ihnen danach gefragt haben, bieten wir jetzt einen kostenlosen Weebly-zu-WordPress-Migrationsdienst als Teil unseres kostenlosen WordPress-Blog-Einrichtungsdienstes an. Das bedeutet, dass eines unserer fachkundigen Teammitglieder die gesamte Migration für Sie durchführt (100% kostenlos). Ja, Sie können buchstäblich ohne jedes Risiko von Weebly zu WordPress wechseln.
Wenn Sie jedoch jemand sind, der gerne lernt und Dinge selbst macht, dann können Sie unserer Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung unten folgen.
Sind Sie bereit? Dann fangen wir an.
Weebly zu WordPress Video Anleitung
Wenn Sie keine Video-Tutorials mögen oder in Ihrem eigenen Tempo vorgehen möchten, lesen Sie bitte die folgenden Anweisungen weiter.
Schritt 1: Erste Schritte
Um einen WordPress-Blog zu starten, benötigen Sie zwei Dinge:
- Einen Domänennamen (das ist der Name Ihres Blogs, z. B. wpbeginner.com)
- Ein Webhosting-Konto (hier ist Ihre Website im Internet zu finden)
Während WordPress selbst kostenlos ist, sind sowohl die Domain als auch das Webhosting kostenpflichtig ($14,99 / Jahr für die Domain und $7,99 / Monat für das Webhosting).
Dankenswerterweise hat sich Bluehost, ein von WordPress offiziell empfohlener Hosting-Anbieter, bereit erklärt, unseren Nutzern einen kostenlosen Domainnamen und einen Preisnachlass von über 73 % auf das Webhosting anzubieten.
Wenn Sie aus irgendeinem Grund andere Optionen wünschen, dann können Sie sich unsere Liste der besten WordPress-Hosting-Unternehmen ansehen.
Sobald Sie Ihre Domain und Ihr Hosting eingerichtet haben, ist der nächste Schritt die Installation von WordPress. Wir haben eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Installation von WordPress.
Nachdem Sie die Installation von WordPress abgeschlossen haben, können Sie zum nächsten Schritt übergehen, nämlich Ihre Weebly-Inhalte nach WordPress zu übertragen.
Schritt 2: Exportieren Sie Inhalte von Ihrer Weebly-Website
In der Vergangenheit war es für Benutzer viel zu schwierig, von Weebly zu WordPress zu wechseln, weil es nicht einfach war, Daten aus Weebly zu exportieren.
Wir haben beschlossen, dieses Problem zu lösen und einen kostenlosen Weebly-WordPress-Importer entwickelt.
Es ist ein kostenloses Online-Tool, das Ihre Inhalte aus Weebly importiert und in ein WordPress-kompatibles Importformat konvertiert. Es nimmt keine Änderungen an Ihrer bestehenden Weebly-Website vor und ist daher absolut sicher in der Anwendung.
Gehen Sie auf die Website des Weebly to WordPress Importer und geben Sie die URL Ihrer Weebly-Website ein.
Sie werden aufgefordert, Ihren Namen und Ihre E-Mail-Adresse anzugeben und ein Exportformat auszuwählen.
Die Standardoption ist das WXR-Format, und Sie sollten dies nicht ändern, es sei denn, Sie stoßen später auf ein Problem.
Als Nächstes müssen Sie wählen, ob Sie Seiten in Ihre Exportdatei aufnehmen möchten. Die Standardoption ist „Ja“, und Sie brauchen das auch nicht zu ändern, es sei denn, Sie möchten wirklich keine Weebly-Seiten exportieren.
Danach müssen Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Meine Weebly-Website exportieren“ klicken.
Der Weebly to WordPress Importer holt jetzt Inhalte von Ihrer Weebly-Website und konvertiert sie in eine WordPress-kompatible Exportdatei.
Sie sehen eine Schaltfläche zum Herunterladen Ihrer Weebly-Exportdatei. Klicken Sie mit der rechten Maustaste darauf und wählen Sie „Link speichern unter“ aus dem Menü.
Dadurch wird die Datei export.xml auf Ihren Computer heruntergeladen.
Schritt 3: Weebly-Inhalte in WordPress importieren
Nun, da Sie Ihre Weebly-Inhalte in einem WordPress-kompatiblen Format vorliegen haben, ist es an der Zeit, sie in WordPress zu importieren.
Melden Sie sich in Ihrem Verwaltungsbereich an und gehen Sie auf die Seite Tools “ Importieren.
Es wird eine Liste der für verschiedene Plattformen verfügbaren Importeure angezeigt. Scrollen Sie nach unten zu WordPress und klicken Sie dann auf den Link „Jetzt installieren“.
WordPress holt nun das Importer-Plugin und installiert es auf Ihrer WordPress-Website, ohne die Seite neu zu laden.
Sobald das Programm installiert ist, müssen Sie auf „Importer ausführen“ klicken, um es zu starten.
Dadurch gelangen Sie auf die Seite des WordPress-Importers. Klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Datei auswählen“, um die zuvor heruntergeladene Datei „export.xml“ auszuwählen.
Klicken Sie anschließend auf die Schaltfläche „Datei hochladen und importieren“, um fortzufahren.
Der WordPress-Importer lädt nun Ihre Exportdatei hoch und analysiert sie. Auf dem nächsten Bildschirm werden Sie aufgefordert, Autoren zuzuweisen.
Sie können einen Autor von Ihrer Weebly-Website importieren, einen neuen Autor erstellen oder alle Inhalte Ihrem bestehenden WordPress-Benutzer zuweisen.
Vergessen Sie nicht, das Kästchen neben der Option „Dateianhänge herunterladen und importieren“ zu aktivieren. Dadurch werden Bilder von Ihrer Weebly-Website in die WordPress-Mediathek geholt, sodass Sie sie später verwenden können.
Sie können nun auf die Schaltfläche „Senden“ klicken, um den Importer zu starten. WordPress importiert nun Inhalte aus der Exportdatei in Ihre WordPress-Datenbank. Es wird auch versuchen, die in Ihren Weebly-Blogbeiträgen und -Seiten verlinkten Bilder zu holen.
Nach Abschluss des Vorgangs wird eine Erfolgsmeldung angezeigt.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Sie haben erfolgreich Inhalte aus Ihrem Weebly-Blog in WordPress importiert. Sie können nun im WordPress-Verwaltungsbereich auf Beiträge, Seiten und Kategorien zugreifen, um zu sehen, ob alle Inhalte vorhanden sind. Überprüfen Sie auch die Mediathek, um die von Ihrer Weebly-Website importierten Bilder zu sehen.
Wenn der Importvorgang in der Mitte fehlschlägt, können Sie ihn jederzeit wiederholen. Der Importer ist intelligent genug, um doppelte Inhalte zu erkennen und sie zu überspringen. Es werden nur die Inhalte importiert, die beim vorherigen Versuch nicht erfolgreich importiert wurden.
Schritt 4: Umleitungen einrichten
Wenn Sie eine benutzerdefinierte Domain für Ihre Weebly-Website verwenden (z. B. yoursite.com), müssen Sie diese auf Ihren WordPress-Hosting-Provider verweisen.
Melden Sie sich zunächst bei Ihrem Weebly-Konto an und gehen Sie auf die Seite Domains. Klicken Sie auf den Domainnamen, den Sie bearbeiten möchten, und klicken Sie dann auf der Seite Domain-Einstellungen auf die Schaltfläche „Ändern“ neben der Option Nameserver.
Auf dem nächsten Bildschirm müssen Sie die Nameserver Ihres neuen WordPress-Hosts eingeben. Bei Bluehost sind dies ns1.bluehost.com und ns2.bluehost.com.
Klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Es kann eine Weile dauern, bis sich Nameserver-Änderungen im Internet verbreiten. Sobald die Änderungen wirksam werden, sehen Besucher Ihre WordPress-Website.
Wenn Sie eine Subdomain-URL auf Ihrer Weebly-Website verwenden (wie http://example.weebly.com), dann ist hier, wie Sie die Umleitung einrichten würden.
Melden Sie sich in Ihrem Weebly-Dashboard an und bearbeiten Sie Ihre Website. Als nächstes müssen Sie auf Einstellungen und dann auf die Registerkarte SEO klicken.
Blättern Sie nun nach unten zur Option Kopfzeilencode und fügen Sie diese Codezeile hinzu:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/">
Ersetzen Sie yourdomain.com durch den Domainnamen Ihrer neuen WordPress-Website.
Vergessen Sie nicht, auf die Schaltflächen „Speichern“ und „Veröffentlichen“ zu klicken, um Ihre Änderungen zu speichern.
Sie können nun Ihre Weebly-Website besuchen, die dann aktualisiert und auf Ihre WordPress-Website umgeleitet wird.
Schritt 5: Permalinks einrichten
Ihre Weebly-Website hat möglicherweise eine andere URL-Struktur für Blogbeiträge und Seiten. In der Regel sieht sie etwa so aus:
Für Blogbeiträge: http://example.com/blog/your-post-title/
Für Seiten: http://example.com/page-title.html
Wenn Sie auf Ihrer Weebly-Website eine benutzerdefinierte Domain verwendet haben, wird Benutzern, die einen Beitrag in Ihrem alten Weebly-Blog besuchen, ein 404-Fehler angezeigt.
So können Sie sicherstellen, dass die Nutzer zum richtigen Beitrag weitergeleitet werden.
Sie müssen die Seite Einstellungen “ Permalinks aufrufen. Scrollen Sie nach unten und wählen Sie die Option „Benutzerdefinierte Struktur“ und fügen Sie dann /blog/%postname% in das Textfeld daneben ein.
Vergessen Sie nicht, auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“ zu klicken, um Ihre Permalinks zu aktualisieren.
Jetzt müssen Sie .html am Ende der URLs für Ihre WordPress-Seiten hinzufügen.
Sie müssen das Plugin Add Any Extension to Pages installieren und aktivieren. Weitere Details finden Sie in unserer Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zur Installation eines WordPress-Plugins.
Nach der Aktivierung müssen Sie Einstellungen “ Beliebige Erweiterung zu Seiten hinzufügen aufrufen. Geben Sie in den Plugin-Einstellungen einfach .html ein und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Einstellungen aktualisieren“.
Nun müssen Sie die Seite Einstellungen “ Permalinks aufrufen und auf die Schaltfläche Änderungen speichern klicken, um Ihre Permalinkstruktur zu aktualisieren.
Schritt 6: Fehlersuche
Hier sind ein paar Dinge, die Sie nach der Übertragung Ihrer Website von Weebly zu WordPress benötigen könnten.
1. Importieren oder Ersetzen von Bildern
WordPress wird versuchen, Bilder von Ihrer Weebly-Website während des Imports in WordPress zu importieren. Wenn Ihre Bilder jedoch nicht in die Mediathek heruntergeladen wurden, müssen Sie sie importieren. Eine detaillierte Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung finden Sie in unserem Leitfaden zum Importieren externer Bilder in WordPress.
2. Behebung von Fehlern in WordPress
Wenn Sie nach der Übertragung Fehler auf Ihrer WordPress-Website feststellen, lesen Sie unseren ultimativen Leitfaden zu häufigen WordPress-Fehlern und wie Sie diese beheben können.
3. Was Sie nach der Installation von WordPress tun sollten
Wenn alles gut geht, können Sie nun Ihre neue Website anpassen und die enorme Flexibilität von WordPress nutzen. Sehen Sie sich unsere Liste der wichtigen Dinge an, die nach der Installation von WordPress zu tun sind.
Wir hoffen, dass dieser Artikel Ihnen beim Wechsel von Weebly zu WordPress geholfen hat. Vielleicht interessieren Sie sich auch für unsere Liste der wichtigsten WordPress-Plugins für Unternehmenswebsites und unseren Leitfaden zu WordPress im Vergleich zu Weebly.
Wenn Ihnen dieser Artikel gefallen hat, dann abonnieren Sie bitte unseren YouTube-Kanal für WordPress-Videotutorials. Sie können uns auch auf Twitter und Facebook finden.
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Sarah says
Any tips on exporting pages that are visible only to certain members or member groups in Weebly? There are about 100 I need to move over to WordPress but they are not visible unless viewed by a logged in member who has access to those pages.
WPBeginner Support says
The export file should include any hidden pages unless Weebly has changed their export rules.
Admin
herve says
Hi,
I’ve recently needed to export several weebly’s websites but I think they’re too big. Every time I request an export, I get a 504 – Gateway Timeout.
Is there another solution or alternative?
Thanks,
Rv
WPBeginner Support says
Please reach out to our team using our contact form below for us to take a look at the exports.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Admin
Sarah Jayne says
I just want to clarify something – does this move a full website or just the blog? I have my website and blog on Weebly and I want to move it to WordPress.
WPBeginner Support says
The export you include pages so it is for an entire site not just your blog
Admin
shlomo says
Hi, when I run the importer I get this message:
Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?
If I enter my domain name directly into my web browser it does take me to my website. I would appreciate any help in how can I resolve this?
Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
For troubles with the Weebly exporter, please reach out to us using our contact form below and include the URL of your site for us to take a look at possible issues.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Admin
Kay Gill says
Hi, Can you tell me what theme is used when the import into WordPress takes place please?
WPBeginner Support says
No specific theme needs to be used on WordPress to import your content, the theme used is based on personal preference.
Admin
Lindsey says
Helpful. If I’m transfering my domain from Weebly to create a new WP site through BlueHost, do I need to wait for the domain transfer to complete fully (could take 3-10 days) before completing the steps provided? TIA.
WPBeginner Support says
You can create a site on a temporary domain on BlueHost and once your domain is transferred you can update the domain. That would allow you to start working on it before the transfer is complete.
Admin
Palitha says
This is not working, no any type of export happening
WPBeginner Support says
Please reach out to us using our contact form and include the URL of the Weebly site that is not exporting and we will certainly take a look!
https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Admin
Adam Lee Rosenfeld says
Hi I have a client with a Weebly site that has an eccomerce setup (products, a shopping cart, etc.). Would this solution work for a site like that?
WPBeginner Support says
Sadly, at the moment we do not have a recommended method for easily transferring e-commerce data from Weebly
Admin
Jordan Eagle says
I’m pretty much the novice blogger verbatim who started on Weebly and wants to move over to WordPress. This blog was super helpful in transferring media, text, and most content from blog posts and pages on my Weebly blog. I, too, received the error from their exporter:
„Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? Go Back“
I was able to get one complete export.xml file in a handful of failed attempts on the exporter. However, I contact WPBeginner support and within 12 hours they had done the export themselves and set along the export file.
Would definitely recommend using this for an easy transfer.
ZP says
I am helping a non profit migrate their site, but we are not sure if the blog posts will transfer along with all the other site content. Does anyone know? Thanks.
WPBeginner Support says
Blog posts should transfer.
Admin
Zhivko G. says
Hi,
I am also trying to migrate my Weebly site to WP, and I keep getting the message „Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL?“. I disabled the SSL, but it is of no use: I tried several times, waited for minutes, but still no effect. Can something be done? Thanks.
WPBeginner Support says
For issues with the exporter, please reach out to us using the contact form below for us to assist:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Admin
Mark Bolmida says
I’d like to move a well established (12 years) Weebly site to WordPress. It ranks well for my industry and I don’t want the move to affect my SEO in a negative way. Will it? I’m hoping with the more tools available in WordPress I can make my site better and make ranking even better.
WPBeginner Support says
There should not be a major change in your SEO if you move the site and set up your redirect properly.
Admin
Bjorn Yourey says
Hi, Before I do this just curious to know will my contact forms, background images get transferred as well or its just strictly content which gets transferred from weebly to wordpress?
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on how the images are added but it would be best to expect only the content will be transferred.
Admin
Bjorn Yourey says
thank you so much for your reply, should i follow the same methods to get it migrated from weebly to the weebly in siteground? I just signed up on their site and just about to migrate from weebly to wordpress for 1 site, but also wanted to know if i should follow the same instructions for weebly to weebly platform in siteground, thanks again for your help.
WPBeginner Support says
At the moment we do not have a guide for moving a Weebly site, if you reach out to SiteGround they should be able to help with that.
Megan says
THANK YOU so much for posting this!!! I was getting so frustrated and this actually helped!
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide was helpful
Admin
JOE says
When I try to export the weebly site I only get this error message,
Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? Go Back
I have done everything, still it display the same message. I’m using the domain fro weebly by the way.
please help.
WPBeginner Support says
If you run into that issue please reach out to us using our contact form.
Admin
Alison Bigg says
When I try to export the weebly site I only get this error message,
Could not find any content in your weebly blog to export. Did you enter the correct URL? Go Back
Thanks for any help. Alison
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to reach out to us using our contact form for us to be able to assist with that issue.
Admin
Charles says
Will this work for transferring a Weebly eComm site to a WordPress site integrated with WooCommerce?
WPBeginner Support says
It should work for transferring your site content but you would need to recreate your product pages.
Admin
Clint Holden says
Would I be better to wait to export from weebly until I have beaver builder installed or does it matter
WPBeginner Support says
You can export from Weebly at any point and adding your content would give you something to style on your new site as well
Admin
Ian Dunn says
I also got the „Could not find any content …“ error, but it was because I had a custom domain setup.
To get it to work, I had to add a „{site-name}.weebly.com“ subdomain, and then enter that address into the tool.
WPBeginner Support says
Thank you for letting us know about that issue, we’ll be sure to look into possible reasons why it could have happened
Admin
Danielle says
Hello! I’ve been trying to use your plugin to convert my weebly site to WordPress, but it times out every time. What can I do to fix this? I have high speed internet, but I’m wondering if my site is too big…?
WPBeginner Support says
Should our exporter run into this issue, please reach out to us using our contact form and let us know your site URL here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Admin
Linda says
Hello. I finally took the plunge and transferred my weebly site to wordpress. I put it off because I thought it would be a nightmare and complicated. Decided the time was now as my site looked very outdated and was losing ranking. I couldn’t believe how easy it was! I needed to turn off SSL (and then back on again) for it to work.
Thank you all so much for offering this free service!
Happy New Year and I wish you all the very best.
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, Happy New Year to you as well
Admin
Misao says
Hello, the importer is not working. After filling out the fields, it shows WordPress Error
WPBeginner Support says
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/
Admin
Zara says
The Weebly to WordPress Importer. is not working. I’ve tried 3 times. It does not collect any daga.
WPBeginner Support says
Please reach out to us using our contact us page at the bottom of the page to elaborate on your issue.
Admin
Kelly says
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 says
Did you purchase your domain name from another location? That could be why the option is not in Weebly
Admin
Noelle says
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 says
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.
Admin
Susan says
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 says
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.
Admin
Chris says
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 says
It would depend on the specific service for what is available.
Admin
Chris says
It’s on Agile CRM.
WPBeginner Support says
Sadly, we do not have a recommended exporter at the moment.
Sakthi says
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 says
For larger sites please reach out to us using our contact form for us to be able to assist.
Admin
admin says
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 says
You may want to try recreating the export file to ensure it didn’t have a hiccup and then reimporting.
Admin
Bill says
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 says
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/
Admin
Chris says
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 says
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
Admin
Sam Morgan says
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 says
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.
Admin
Kate says
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 says
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 says
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
Admin
Carlos says
Will do doing that now I think I came across your contact page somewhere on the thread. thanks!
WPBeginner Support says
If not in the comments, we have the link in our footer
Denise says
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 says
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/
Admin
Emilia Amaro says
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 says
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.
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Emilia Amaro says
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 says
A link to our contact page is in our footer or you can use: https://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
Sophie says
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 says
You would let BlueHost know you already have a domain and then you would transfer your domain to BlueHost once you are ready
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jenn says
Is it completely necessary to add the .html for redirects? It is not on the original wix urls.
Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
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.
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Jacky says
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 says
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
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Jacky says
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 says
It creates copies of your content, it does not remove your content
Alice Ford says
When I tried to export my site it said it couldn’t find any data.
WPBeginner Support says
We will certainly take a look for any errors that could be causing this with the exporter.
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jose says
How long it takes to transfer and unluck a domain form weebly to another host.
WPBeginner Support says
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
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Jessica says
This did nothing for me. After importing to wordpress, nothing has changed on it. Stock site still in effect.
WPBeginner Support says
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.
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Carissa says
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 says
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.
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Carissa says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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.
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David McKinney says
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 says
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.
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David McKinney says
Thank you.
Disabling the SSL really worked.
WPBeginner Support says
Hey David,
Glad to hear that
David McKinney says
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 says
Hi David,
You’d find instructions on Weebly’s website or reach out to their support.
Emily S. says
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 says
Hi Emily,
Once you have logged into your Bluehost account you will see a link to log into your WordPress admin area.
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Lerissa Patrick says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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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