Hello there! Has anyone run into this? Wix not recognizing a Worpress Blog as a Wordpress Blog. Designing a site for a client who has a Wordpress Blog. I used the new import feature and it only imported 2 out of the hundreds this client has. I tried pasting the actual post link, I tired using the website domain only and now I just get this message. Has anyone run into this? Why is this happening and more importantly is there a workaround? Already tried Wix Support and was told to enter in manually.
site in question: www.theloyalopposition.net
I will make sure the team sees this - I’m not sure why that’s not working. I’ll poke them about this.
Actually, I just took a look. @azamora - It looks like you are trying to link to a contact page, and not the main blog index. Try using another url like this https://www.theloyalopposition.net/daily-ctas/ - Where it isn’t an actual article. You might also want to try https://www.theloyalopposition.net/articles/ as well - or check the structure of the blog to find the main home.
There’s more to that link actually. Lol I had to double check too.
Going to try this now, Brett! Pray it works…thank you so much
Gave it a shot, but got the same result. = ( Any other possibilities? Anything you can do would be immensely appreciated @brett Thank you in advance.
I’m really unsure, and it is impossible to diagnose from here. Did you have a chance to review the step-by-step walkthrough on Wix’s support site?
https://support.wix.com/en/article/importing-blog-posts-from-wordpress-to-the-new-wix-blog
I’m bringing this back up because I’m running into something similar. The first issue is the customer’s original website was not an HTTPS. I fixed that. Then the blog is a subdomain. I asked the client to change the main domain to an HTTPS but I’m noticing the only one that comes up as a secure HTTPS is the blog extension and not the main domain.
The main WordPress website that is being moved over to WiX is fraudpractice.com. The blog location is fraudpractice.com/fraudblog. You’ll notice Fraud Blog comes up secure, however Fraud Practice main domain does not. I hate posting all of this, but I’m sort of at a loss. I’m trying to not push the client to give me access to the main domain on WordPress because I feel they are already not wanting me to. They already gave me access to the Fraud Blog Subdomain.
This is what WiX support has sent to me:
" For our tool to properly import your posts from WordPress, it needs to access the link domain.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts . As for now, it seems this page is not accessible.
In most cases, the issue comes from WordPress plugins or settings which disable the WordPress REST API. Please disable all plugins from your WordPress site. After doing so, please retry to import your posts to your Wix site.
We suggest reaching out to WordPress support with these details for additional assistance. If this behavior can be changed on WordPress’s end, then you can retry the import on Wix."
Any help on this would be really appreciated.
Solved: (Workaround)
The problem was the original domain being imported would NOT update to the latest WordPress. Going around the original website and importing it worked. Here is how I did the workaround.
- Simply go to Tools » Export inside your WordPress admin area. Here, you can choose to download your entire site, or only your blog posts. After that, you can click on the Download Export File button and WordPress will download all your blog posts in XML format.
After exporting, head over to a new WordPress site using a different domain. (the bare minimum.) Also, make sure the new WordPress Website is on the latest version. (Most likely a new site setup will be on the latest) (This was the original issue that started this problem. The WordPress Blog we were trying to import from would NOT update to the latest version of WordPress. WiX would not see it as a WordPress blog because of this)
In the WordPress admin of the old site, go to Tools>Export.
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In the WordPress admin of the new site, go to Tools>Import . Choose the XML file you exported from the previous website.
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Once this has been done, go to your WiX website , and put the new domain in and the import should work.
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing the solution - this will help so many more in the future. 
I’m adding another issue to this and it might just be specific to this one client’s blog. While the import works, and that portion is resolved, on their blog they have a preview of each blog post with a “read more” button. Unfortunately, the XML file that get’s exported and then Imported into WiX only shows the article up to that “read more” button. It literally imbeds the link to their WordPress blog rather than display the article. So the import is only half successful. Here is what I’m going to try:
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I’m going to edit the CSS theme in WordPress first by going to Appearance > Edit CSS.
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I’m going to enter this custom code into the CSS Theme.
- .entry-content .more-link {display:none;}
After that I’m going to save it. Run my export work around once more and then import the WordPress Blog into WiX once more. I’ll update this thread with my discoveries.
Update : There’s lots of options with this. You can edit the CSS, which has not changed a single thing. I’ve gone into WordPress settings t o show complete articles without excerpt. This you can achieve by customizing WP Settings. Settings > Reading check the box for Full Text. I’ve gone into the theme editor and changed it there as well. Appearance > Customize > Excerpt Settings, check the box for Full Text and click publish.
I don’t see on the front end of the WordPress blog after doing this it working. I’m importing now into WiX to see if by some miracle it translates.
The problem I think lies with the read more buttons being linked to their other domain that wasn’t originally working to begin with. I think what I’m going to do is go back to the original domain and troubleshoot the issue with WordPress NOT updating to the latest 5.1.8 release. Perhaps if I can solve that, WiX’s API that imports WordPress blogs will recognize the original domain as a WP blog. My brain hurts.
Update: Basically, the fact that you have to update WordPress and you have issues updating that cannot be resolved without getting involved with your hosting server is garbage and should not be something we troubleshoot to a dead end, which I’ve done. I’ve taken the liberty of copying the company’s latest 15 blog posts and making them look really nice on WiX’s blog. I’ve done this manually by copying and pasting. It’s literally faster than the time I’ve taken troubleshooting this mess that has to do completely with WordPress. Issue resolved; Don’t Use WordPress!
