How to move Weebly website to WordPress?

If you’re someone who covets a decent reach of customers for their online business, WordPress and Weebly are definitely, forces to be reckoned with. These two online platforms enable a customer to create business websites, blogs, social networks and much more. In a world where the use of the internet is at its zenith, WordPress accounts for over 35.2% of all the websites on the internet. Hordes of excited businessmen resort to the use of WordPress in order to expand their customer reach. Despite being an economical website, Weebly is often criticized for lacking a few features such as ‘No Third-Party Tools’, ‘3% Transaction fee’ and the facility of ‘Easy SEO’.

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For this reason, many people who once registered with Weebly wish to know how they can move weebly website to WordPress. Before we begin, it is necessary for the reader to realize that there are a number of ways you can move weebly website to WordPress. The one we are going to discuss is arguably the easiest and most economical of all. Switching from weebly website to WordPress isn’t as esoteric as it sounds. Firstly, you should be aware that when you want to move your contents to WordPress, you want to transfer all the following elements.

  • The blog posts
  • All the pages
  • All the images
  • The URL structure in its original form

Now the tricky part is that there are no built-in tools in a Weebly website which will allow you to export the entire website content. So you need to be well equipped with the proper knowledge as to how you can get all this done. Before you begin, you will need a blank WordPress website in order to execute the steps mentioned below.

Importing blog posts on Weebly to WordPress

The first and the foremost step, as stated above, can be completed via a wordpress conversion expert called Feedzy. The pro version of this weebly to wordpress services provider will cost you $59 and will enable you to extract content from any RSS feed and post it to your WordPress blogs. To execute this step, all you need to do is enter your Weebly’s feed URL in the ‘source’ column provided, choose all items to be imported and finally hit the ‘Run Now’ option to kick start the import. As soon as the importing process is done, you can visit the WordPress dashboard and check for your posts in order to ensure that everything has been copied.

Import the pages to WordPress

When you want to move weebly website to WordPress, the second step is the one which is most strenuous. Due to the lack of built-in tools provided by Weebly, you have to move all your pages manually, one by one. To alleviate the difficulty, you can install the renowned wordpress developer ‘Elementor’. Elementor provides you with an excellent drag-and-drop facility so that you can recreate each one of your Weebly pages, no matter how complicated they seem to be. All you need to do is go through the pages on Weebly, copy-paste the images and text one by one and finally work on the design after pasting the contents in an attempt to make the pages look similar. This is an easy task since Elementor is highly user friendly.

Importing the images

Once you’re done importing the pages, the easiest part arrives. To import the images, you will need to download a plugin called ‘Auto Upload Images’. When you’ve installed the plugin, you will have to go to ‘settings’ and then click on ‘auto upload images’. You’ll see an optional configuration form which you need not fill. So it’s best to click on ‘Save Changes’ instantly. Subsequently, you will be required to select all your posts on the WordPress dashboard which you have pasted few minutes before. Having selected all the posts, you will simply have to click on ‘Bulk Options’ and then select ‘Edit’ from the drop-down list and click on ‘Apply’ button. A bigger panel will pop up wherein you will have to click on the ‘Update’ button provided and you’re all set.

Importing the URL Structure

In order to retain the original URL Structure, you need to follow a few steps. As for posts, you will have to go to Settings and then click on ‘Permalinks’. After that, you have to enter the post name into the provided field and finally click on ‘Save Changes’. Now it’s the turn for your pages. In order to add the same page URL to your WordPress account, you will need to install ‘Add Any Extension to Pages’ plugin. Once you have activated this plugin, you have to go to Settings, click on ‘Add Any Extension to Pages’ and enter “.html” in the field that’s provided there. Finally, click on ‘Update Settings’.
After both these steps are carefully followed, you have to once again go back to Settings, click on ‘Permalinks’ and finally press ‘Save Changes’ button without making any changes in the settings.

Redirecting the original Weebly site

Last but not least you will have to redirect the old Weebly website to the new one which is now operating on WordPress. In this final step, you have to edit the ‘nameserver’ settings of your domain name so that it now points to your newly created WordPress website.After performing the abovementioned steps properly, it is safe to say that you have moved your website from Weebly to WordPress completely.

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