{"id":23274,"date":"2024-01-11T17:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=23274"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:31:32","slug":"move-from-weebly-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/move-from-weebly-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Move From Weebly to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Weebly provides a simple way to get a website up and running, eventually, it makes sense to migrate to a more powerful platform like WordPress. However, without experience of coding (or hiring a developer), you might not know how to move from Weebly to WordPress exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, there are two ways to set up a new WordPress website with all your Weebly data. The quickest method enables you to automate the process. But, you can also import all of your Weebly blog posts, pages, and images manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, I’ll take a look at what you need to get started. Then, we’ll show you two ways to convert Weebly to WordPress. Let’s get to it!<\/p>\n\n\n

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What you need before you get started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you want to transfer Weebly to WordPress, there are a few things you’ll need to have in place before you start the migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, it’s important to set up your basic WordPress<\/a> website, if you haven’t done so already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your WordPress website will be empty until you migrate over your Weebly content. However, you’ll want to have WordPress in place before you start the migration process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the basic process to set up WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Purchase web hosting, which is what will power the WordPress software. Unlike Weebly, WordPress doesn’t have its own built-in hosting<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Install the WordPress software<\/a> on your web hosting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Access your WordPress dashboard to configure basic settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    For an easy way to get up and running, we recommend using Bluehost’s WordPress hosting<\/a>. Not only is Bluehost easy to use, but it will also pre-install WordPress for you so that your site is working right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you’d like more help, we have full guides on how to set up WordPress on Bluehost<\/a> and how to make a WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    If you’re not already using a custom domain name for your Weebly site (e.g., you’re using a subdomain like yoursite.weebly.com<\/em> instead of yoursite.com<\/em>), then you’ll also need to get a domain name for your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you use Bluehost, it will give you a free domain name for the first year and also automatically configure the domain name to work with your WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    How to move from Weebly to WordPress <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Now that you’ve got everything prepared, let’s take a look at how to convert a Weebly site to WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In this section, we’ll look at how to migrate your Weebly data to WordPress, which is most of<\/em> the migration process (though we’ll also cover a few other housekeeping steps later on<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We’ll give you two options here. You can choose whichever approach looks better to you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n