Is this available and I haven’t found the magic button yet?
thanks,
robert
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Hi Robert,
We appreciate you sharing your questions and feedback with us.
The magic button to convert from the Classic Editor to Editor X is still being developed by our amazing development teams.
Please let us know if you have any concerns or need help with recreating your site. We would love to share some tips to get you started!
Kind regards,
Editor X Team
I would take some tips 
Hey Robert!
This is a very large undertaking for coming up with that magic button. Due to the differences in how Editor X and the original Wix Editor fundamentally work.
I can predict there will be significant hurdles regarding converting information from old Wix sites… I would actually suggest attempting to recreate your Wix Editor site in the new Editor X to become familiar with the differences and get some practice in using Editor X.
Hi Danny,
I fully understand. BUT for those of us with sites in Production the effort of porting is significant. I recognize this is still in Beta but suggesting that we manually port complete sites from the old to the new is not a good solution. Trying to port without tools is a sure fire way of spending a lot of man hours and getting no business benefits as much as I would like to use the improved editor.
Think of it this way though. What happens if you port your site over and you have absolutely no idea how to edit your site because you don’t understand the Editor X mechanics and tools? (I am not saying you don’t know what to do, but this is a new product) and I think @marketing brings up a good point.
I do hear ya though and I think there will hopefully be something but will it be exactly how we want it to be? I dunno.
I echo @marketing and recommend you re-build this site and get used to Editor X’s differences.
Let me provide a counterpoint. I am not a consultant or a designer. I am supporting the operations of our company. I have been exploring WIX myself because we are thin due to covid-19 and because we will be rolling out new products and need to communicate with our partner network more effectively.
The owner of our company chose WIX because it was one of the easiest solutions to stand up. Not the best, but the appropriate choice at that point in time. Now 5 years later we are writing and integrating systems using it. We are invested. Your response suggests that we should spend dollars in labor cost and man hours manually manually porting because it would be a good exercise OR not have access to the actively developed tools.
You are telling me that my investment is sunk.
Today we are invested in this product but if you are telling us that we have to reinvest in dollars and hours (something we have less of the dollars) then it would be appropriate for us to consider all the options available to us.
I find it surprising that your Business would feels it appropriate to create a situation where your invested customers would given a choice to leave that is similar to that of staying.
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I’ll add to @robert12958 point that Editor X doesn’t have (yet) the same functionalities the old wix have. Therefore to recreate a website, in many cases we need to think everything all over again and adapt to the hurdles the new editor have. That takes time and money of course. Like Robert, I’d love to have the magic button and I do think it’s a priority for many business (like mine and his) that can’t invest in doing something manually again.
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I agree with this. Being able to import current websites from Classic to X is going to be a massive feature for me. I don’t have the time to completely recreate my business’s whole website with the new editor. I’ve been with Wix for about a year and a half, and currently have dozens of pages tied to my current website. I’m sure that even once everything is able to be imported, there will have to be tweaks made. However, this should definitely be made a high priority.
I just started to build an Multi-lingual E-Commerce as my trial and hands on EXERCISE since earlier this year and yet to touch the store section even I signed up the Premium Plan a year that went live www.CEO-Match.sg. Instead of waiting the magic porting button, I do not mind to restart it from scratch to create it new under Editior X. Do I need to purchase another Permium Plan for the same domain and set-up under Editor X enivroment. Please advice.
By the way, I has been one of the software developer from Singapore for Windows CE 1.0 till 6.5 off-line Mobile Solutions or Native Apps using C++ for the last 20/30 years with one patent product CEO-Match. We demostarted our first bilingual moble applictions at Comdex 1999/2000 was reported on New York Time. Plan to migrate two active live off-line applications to online with 5G infrasture coming into the corner. After going through various latest technology on the market. I am please to found WIX=Editor X and Zoom could help us achieve our goal much easier. I need WIX experts advice on this area (Porting Mobile from Off-line to Online 1. Mobile Route Sales System, 2. CEO-Match Nusiness siulation Game. We can arrange a zoom video chat for a quick understand before the next move. Thank your very much indeed, keep safe and God Bless !
There will have to be a transition plan and there will be a feature/implementation gap to fill. A good opportunity for some strong WIX consultants but the gap needs to be small enough that we can bridge it successfully.
I’m actually in the same boat here as you Robert. I’ll have to re-do my company’s 300+ page, technical data-filled, 10k+ links, hilariously oversized databased, website. I completely understand your point - and to a certain degree, you have a lot of justified ground to stand on. The magic button would solve a lot of problems - however being a position to where I understand what it takes to actually make that button - I understand that it will be a grand problem for the WIX developers to solve, which if implemented unfinished and un-perfected, may leave businesses such as yourself with a mistranslated, destroyed, or simply an error string of a website… Which I’m sure you’d be far more upset with.
Coming from my business experience - I would like to leave you with some of my opinions. Every business was started through struggle and overcoming obstacles. By putting a number on your “Investment”, you will impede your ability to grow. If you were to quantify the countless late nights, headaches, stress, missed birthdays, lack of time with your children, etc. - you’d come to the conclusion that the price to own a business is far too high - website aside.
The long and short is… That’s business… Sometimes you get dealt an obstacle that you’ll need to bite the bullet and get it done. The alternative is you have no website - which will be far more detrimental to your business. So the question really comes down to this: How far are you willing to go for your business’s success? Does it mean that you may have to spend the weekends unpaid and figure out how to redo your website in the new editor? Do you switch editors perhaps? Do you give up and shut everything down because you’d rather spend your evenings watching Netflix rather than working to build your business in a time of hardship? (This was meant to be a bit insulting… But let’s be honest here - every single business owner is guilty of the same thing)
This is the opinion of a fellow peer - not of the WIX team. This is also not meant to cause any ill-hearted arguments. Just trying to offer you some advice brother. Business is brutal, it is tough, it requires you to adapt. Trying to recoup imaginary numbers - you’ll never come out ahead.
What I can tell you from an educated perspective on BOTH sides - is this new editor - is the start of something great. For everyone. And will enhance your company’s online footprint, leading to better SEO development (When done correctly) and user interaction, thus in-tern leading to greater organic growth. Which I’m sure you’re absolutely interested in.
Are there any magic buttons in business?
Stay healthy, and keep working hard!
Editor X is a completely different and improved approach. Love it.
I can imagine developing the magic import button is complicated. The blog app is indentical in editor X, so If I could import my existing blog content in editor X, for now, would be so appreciated!!!
@marketing We’ll someone pressed your magic button. I read it twice and I’m not sure I get your point. Are you saying to someone who has spent years building up an ecommerce site to simply throw it to one side and spend countess evenings as you suggest building a new one. Most would probably miss putting the kids to bed or sat with the family and not Netflix like you imply. Nobody with an established long running Wix eccommerce/business website are asking for a ‘lazy’ quick fix magic button that would suddenly give your site a new pair of curtains but somehow be able to export safely and quickly the fundamental structure of their sites business product with out compromise. Thinking of your business advice then apply that to Wix who have a massive investment in those using the current editing format and have just released a completely (and so far totally incompatible with existing builds by customers) new website editing platform which unless existing customers are in some shape or form going forward are able to migrate their existing website businesses is only ever going to be ‘dabbled’ at for some time to come and then probably get bored with it as they are too busy running their business on the present platform. Don’t get me wrong here, I love the look and feel of the Editor X concept and it does have a lot of potential but to move my existing ecommerce business that took years to develop over manually is just not going to happen. Will it hinder or hold back my present business and online presence ? not one bit. Until there is some kind of safe compromise from Wix then all they will attract to Editor X is new builds and a movement over of personal sites and blogs in slow time. But to expect everyone to suddenly dump what they have spent years building (and likely still very productive) and start again as you suggest is a bad business strategy and poor advice. Lets face it, we haven’t even got a hovver box yet let alone a magic button. Like you I don’t mean to offend (none taken either btw) but just making less of a marketing point.
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@davegoodman12 All very good points. We’re having a great discussion!
I don’t think I ever insinuated that the “Magic Button” isn’t an important feature that is needing to be implemented (I don’t think they ever planned to not implement it) I’m simply just stating that I understand the technicalities that are required to actually convert from the old WIX Editor to the new one. I am very much hoping that the WIX team is able to sort it out – however the more I think about it – the little nuance features and third-party plugin reliance that a lot of WIX users have, the more and more complex I realize the problem is.
The only real issue that concerns me, is individuals striking the WIX team for making a better product. How many software companies do you know of, that are making huge community efforts to listen to their customers, make updates as requested, and implement features that will help the overall wellness of the platform?
Another interesting point – is the immense difference in SEO development capabilities that this new editor brings. I would argue that a well designed and cleanly coded website made in the new Editor X will far outperform a legacy WIX website. This being due to enhancing user interaction and visual design that CSS provides over the solely HTML-5 based sites – increasing pages/session, session duration, and overall interaction with a business’s website – which in turn makes Google happy, and increases SEO rank.
I would argue that the opportunity for SEO advancement, is of equal weight to the investment to rebuild your site. Just my opinion though.
You’re absolutely right @davegoodman12 this will be a slow, and time-consuming process for complex legacy WIX users until that magic button is made. I also don’t think that Editor X development should be rushed, nor should existing WIX users be rushed to switch over (Which they are not – just to be clear). But in the end, this effort made by the WIX team on the new editor – taking community input into consideration during development, is a monumental step forward for the platform, it’s users, and the industry of website builders.
Totally agree!
@marketing Yes you are quite correct. Personally I am not a coder in regards to websites and I bow to your greater knowledge on that area and in particular SEO advancement. I love the new Editor X from what I have seen so far and I really do hope Wix takes this in the direction they are heading for but at the end of the day fundamentally Wix is a DIY (hate that tag, should really be Self Build) platform and stick with that ethos and not over complicate the product. My thought is they will quickly develop Editor X and slowly incorporate all the elements of the present Wix editor but in a much slicker format, eventually and over a long period phase out what we see now so I do take your original point in that maybe we should all start to prepare and look forward,probably a bit like Wix are going if I’m being truthful.
@davegoodman12 Wix actually sits in a pretty unique position between complex and simple. A sweet idea which has already been incorporated into the legacy WIX editor (to a certain extent) is the ability to have both complex editing available as well as simple editing available. We’ll have to see!
Hello, any update on the “magic button”? I’m a photographer and reuploading all the content would be a really big headache .
Thanks in advance, the new editor is amazing.
You must have lots of content to upload! I’ve found the file management system in WIX has lots of opportunities to be optimized in cases such as yours. When working in the WIX Content Manager, do you find that sometimes linking photos to assets, and trying to sort images by name (Depending on your file structure) can be a bit of a pain?
I’m FINALLY able to delve more into EditorX amidst this COVID freak-out. I’m thinking of starting a new thread with suggestion upgrades to the file management system - I’m not sure if its just me being a picky consumer or perhaps many other people have found the same thing?