Do you want to switch from Weebly to WordPress?
Yes, it is possible to migrate all of your Weebly content to WordPress without hiring a developer or knowing how to code. We built a free Weebly to WordPress importer tool that does it all for you.
In this article, we will show you how to properly move from Weebly to WordPress (step by step).
From our experience, most folks don’t choose the best blogging platform when they are first starting out. Instead, you are more likely to go with one of the many hosted solutions like Weebly because you heard how easy it was and that it was free.
Unfortunately, WordPress gets a bad rap sometimes, and there are many myths about it that simply aren’t true.
Once you get more into blogging and you learn about SEO, monetization, customization, etc, then you have that oops moment because you realize that you made the wrong choice.
You discover that WordPress is indeed the best content management system out there.
And that’s when you start to panic because you don’t want your hard work to go to waste.
Don’t worry, it won’t. We have helped hundreds of people switch from Weebly to WordPress. No, you don’t have to know any code. If you can follow directions and point-and-click, then you can move your Weebly site to WordPress.
Yes, it will take you about an hour to properly migrate from Weebly to WordPress, but it’s completely worth it.
Bonus Free Offer: Since a lot of you asked for this, we are now offering free Weebly to WordPress migration service as part of our free WordPress blog setup service. This means one of our expert team members will do the entire migration for you (100% free). Yes, you can literally switch from Weebly to WordPress without any risk.
However, if you are someone who likes learning and doing things yourself, then you can follow our step-by-step tutorial below.
Ready? Let’s get started.
Weebly to WordPress Video Tutorial
If you don’t like video tutorials or want to move at your own pace, then continue reading the instructions below.
Step 1: Getting Started
To start a WordPress blog, you need two things:
- A domain name (this is the name of your blog i.e., wpbeginner.com)
- A web hosting account (this is where your website lives on the internet)
While WordPress itself is free, both domain and web hosting come at a cost ($14.99 / year for domain and $7.99 / month for web hosting).
Thankfully, Bluehost, an official WordPress-recommended hosting provider, has agreed to offer our users a free domain name and over 73% off on web hosting.
If, for some reason, you want other options, then you can look at our list of the best WordPress hosting companies.
Once you have set up your domain and hosting, the next step is to install WordPress. We have a step-by-step guide on how to install WordPress.
After you’re done installing WordPress, you are ready to move to the next step, which is to move your Weebly content to WordPress.
Step 2: Export Content From Your Weebly Website
In the past, it was way too difficult for users to move from Weebly to WordPress because it wasn’t easy to export data from Weebly.
We decided to solve this problem and developed a free Weebly to WordPress Importer.
It is a free online tool that imports your content from Weebly and converts it into a WordPress-compatible import format. It does not make any changes to your existing Weebly site, so it is perfectly safe to use.
Head over to the Weebly to WordPress Importer website and enter your Weebly website URL.
You will be asked to provide your name, email address, and to select an export format.
The default option is WXR format, and you should not change that unless you run into an issue later.
Next, you need to choose whether you want to include pages in your export file. The default option is ‘Yes’, and you don’t need to change that either unless you really don’t want to export Weebly pages.
After that, you need to click on the ‘Export my Weebly Website’ button.
Weebly to WordPress Importer will now fetch content from your Weebly website and convert it into a WordPress-compatible export file.
You will see a button to download your Weebly export file. You need to right-click on it and select ‘Save link as’ from the menu.
This will download the export.xml file to your computer.
Step 3: Import Weebly Content into WordPress
Now that you have your Weebly content in a WordPress-compatible format, it is time to import it into WordPress.
Login to your admin area and head over to the Tools » Import page.
You will see a list of importers available for different platforms. You need to scroll down to WordPress and then click on the ‘Install Now’ link.
WordPress will now fetch the importer plugin and install it on your WordPress site without reloading the page.
Once it is installed, you need to click on ‘Run Importer’ to launch it.
This will bring you to the WordPress importer page. Go ahead and click on the ‘Choose file’ button to select the export.xml file you downloaded earlier.
Next, click on the ‘Upload file and import’ button to continue.
WordPress importer will now upload your export file and analyze it. On the next screen, it will ask you to assign authors.
You can import an author from your Weebly website, create a new author, or assign all content to your existing WordPress user.
Don’t forget to check the box next to the ‘Download and import file attachments’ option. It will fetch images from your Weebly website into the WordPress media library so you can use them later.
You can now click on the ‘Submit’ button to run the importer. WordPress will now import content from the export file to your WordPress database. It will also try to fetch images linked in your Weebly blog posts and pages.
Upon completion, you will see a success message.
Congratulations, you have successfully imported content from your Weebly blog to WordPress. You can now go to posts, pages, and categories in the WordPress admin area to see if all your content is there. Also, check the media library to see the images imported from your Weebly site.
If the import process fails in the middle, then you can always run it again. The importer is smart enough to detect duplicate content and skip it. It will only import the content that wasn’t imported successfully in the previous attempt.
Step 4: Setting Up Redirects
If you were using a custom domain on your Weebly site (like yoursite.com), then you need to point it to your WordPress hosting provider.
First, you need to log in to your Weebly account and go to the Domains page. Click on the domain name that you want to edit, and then on the Domain Settings page, click on the ‘Change’ button next to the Nameservers option.
On the next screen, you need to enter your new WordPress host’s nameservers. For Bluehost, these are ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com.
Click on the ‘Save’ button to store your settings.
Nameserver changes may take a while to propagate across the internet. Once the changes take effect, visitors will start seeing your WordPress site.
If you were using a subdomain URL on your Weebly site (like http://example.weebly.com), then here is how you would setup redirect.
Login to your Weebly dashboard and edit your website. Next, you need to click on Settings and then the SEO tab.
Now, scroll down to header code option and add this line of code:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yourdomain.com/">
Replace yourdomain.com with your new WordPress site’s domain name.
Don’t forget to click on the ‘Save’ and ‘Publish’ buttons to save your changes.
You can now visit your Weebly website, and it will refresh and redirect to your WordPress website.
Step 5: Setting Up Permalinks
Your Weebly website may have a different URL structure for blog posts and pages. Typically, it is something like this:
For blog posts: http://example.com/blog/your-post-title/
For pages: http://example.com/page-title.html
If you were using a custom domain on your Weebly site, then users visiting a post on your old Weebly blog will see a 404 error.
Here is how you would make sure that users are redirected to the correct post.
You will need to visit the Settings » Permalinks page. Scroll down and select the ‘Custom structure’ option and then add /blog/%postname% in the text field next to it.
Don’t forget to click on the ‘Save Changes’ button to update your permalinks.
Now, you need to add .html at the end of URLs for your WordPress pages.
You will need to install and activate the Add Any Extension to Pages plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit Settings » Add Any Extension to Pages. Simply enter .html in the plugin settings and click on the ‘Update Settings’ button.
Now you need to visit the Settings » Permalinks page and click on the save changes button to update your permalink structure.
Step 6: Troubleshooting
Here are a few things that you may need after transferring your site from Weebly to WordPress.
1. Importing or Replacing Images
WordPress will try to import images from your Weebly website to WordPress during the import. However, if your images are not downloaded to the media library, then you will need to import them. See our guide on how to import external images in WordPress for detailed step by step instructions.
2. Fixing Errors in WordPress
If you are seeing some errors on your WordPress site after the transfer, then head over to our ultimate guide on common WordPress errors and how to fix them.
3. Things to Do After Installing WordPress
If everything goes well, you will be now ready to customize your new website and take advantage of the enormous flexibility of WordPress. See our list of important things to do after installing WordPress.
We hope this article helped you properly move from Weebly to WordPress. You may also want to see our list of the must have WordPress plugins for business websites and our guide to WordPress vs. Weebly.
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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.
Admin
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
Admin
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.
Admin
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
Admin
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.
Admin
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
Admin
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.
Admin
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.
Admin
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.
Admin
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.
Admin
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.
Admin
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.
Admin
Kylen says
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 says
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.