Moving from WordPress to Wix?

  • Hello,

    I’m after a few words of advice. Just so you know where I’m coming from; I recently set up an online shop using a tutorial I found online, I’ve purchased a domain with GoDaddy, installed WordPress, then added a WooTheme and WooCommerce, set up all my orders as collection only, and PayPal as the only payment method. I’ve made a few customisations using other plug-ins and some custom CSS from forums etc, but in the past I’ve totally killed the site two times trying to make very small changes, as user friendly as it seems on the surface, it appears to me that some changes require way more knowledge than I have and require more than I justify spending the time learning. (For examples I’ve come across trailers that require something called Filezilla and Notepad++ to download! modify, then re-upload php files into a child theme?!)

    So that’s where I am at the moment, but I’ve recently been made an admin on a Wix site (that’s just a site, not an ecommerce) and Wix is so unbelievable simple! And I really wish I’d initially made my shop on Wix. However, I know nothing about their ecommerce, weather it’d be as easy to use as WooCommerce is? How much it costs or anything.

    So my questions are…

    Can I transfer my GoDaddy site to Wix, so I can manage it through their html5 editor instead of WordPress?

    How does Wix’s ecommerce add up when compared to something like WooCommerce? For example what are the main limitations and in what areas does it excell?

    Sorry for the newby questions, I know it can be frustration when someone appears on my forum asking questions that’ve probably already been answered, or things that could simply be googled. But I’ve been searching for as long as I can dedicate to this, I decided to just be direct and ask some real people and hope for the best.

    Thanks in advance for any replies!
    Hope you’re all having a good weekend

    Rob ??

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  • Wix is simple but limited. You cant change layouts like woocommerce, you dont have the same SEO potential and you cant really customize outside of the wix framework. Tracking is limited, roll backs too. Also your stuck with their hosting and you dont own the site. All the upselling soon adds up… yes wix is simple but you can dumb down WP too. Install visual composer – not to different really. You would have a hard time making wix like your wp – unless wix have a predefined cookie cutter template like your site. If you go to wix as a beginner you will never know what the advantages of WP is. If you are a seasoned WP users you will be dissapointed with wix limitations. If you need to edit styles its the same as WP – styles are styles. As for child themes you dont need them if you use a theme with a custom css section. Thats only if you modify things outside of the themes function. Something you would probably never have to do unless you are a developer. The only thing with WP is making sure the plugins you use and theme are descent quality and supported.

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