Migration from Classic to STUDIO

I am a Pioneer level member. Been using WIX for 15+ years. My customers have consistently complained about responsiveness on certain screens. So I was glad when I discovered STUDIO wherein this issue has finally been adressed among other improvements. HOWEVER, it is completely beyond me why your developers would not build in a “migration tool” or otherwise accommodate the migration of pages from Classic to STUDIO. Instead, you released the product, are charging more for it - but at the same time forcing ALL your customers to painstakingly REBUILD each and every element of the site from scratch. I just spend the last 35 hours rebuilding my magazine in STUDIO and am still nowhere near finished. Meanwhile my customers have no way to purchase until I rebuild that component - and I can’t even find it on the menu. IT’S RIDICULOUS and self-serving that WIX ever thought this was a good idea. I realize it’s an entirely different platform but it’s insult to injury to charge upgraded fees for a product that can’t be migrated! I am NOT HAPPY!!! And I can only imagine I am one of thousands of customers facing the same thing. This was a poor strategic move - and honestly, if I didn’t have so much already invested, I would leave WIX and move to a more customer friendly platform.

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Wix released Editor X few years ago you could switch to Editor X back in time in fact still you can and there is a built-in tool for small size websites that will auto migrate your website to Editor X from Classic Editor.

I didn’t get the 15+ years because Wix is only here for 17 years. And how are you still on pioneer level if you are using Wix for 15+ years.

I agree about pricing and premium plans there is a weird pricing even if it’s not expensive there are some limits that shouldn’t be there especially for developers.

The migration option for Classic Editor to Editor X has not been working for over 6 months. Wix customer service are useless and have no clue what’s happening.

I can’t agree with your point. I tried to upgrade one of our Wix Editor sites to Editor X before, and Editor X is basically a failed product. That’s why Editor X only sustained for such a short time before Wix developed Studio to replace it. We are in the same situation now, needing to rebuild a site if we want a responsive one.

And one question for you: Why did Wix disable the Wix Editor to Editor X migration? Is this a technical issue or a business consideration?

I don’t know why they disabled it I tried to use it once for a big website and it was not working for big websites with a lot of pages.

Wix Editor and Studio (or Editor X) is different, you can’t just easily migrate from a non-responsive site to fully responsive one because it’s not easy to understand how site will respond to different screen size.

It doesn’t matter if you have small or a big website you should re-create it in the responsive editor for best result.


But I think right now you can switch from Wix Editor to Studio Editor via figma plugin, I didn’t try it so I don’t know how good it is but here is the flow:

  1. You convert your current Wix site’s pages into HTML CSS codes. (there are tools for this)
  2. Use HTML to figma tools to convert your site to figma design.
  3. Use figma to Studio tool to convert your design into Studio editor.

But you’ll need to switch data manully which means it’s not a very useful method if you care things outside of the design. I saw this method on a Facebook post so not sure how it works but you can do research on it.

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