How Wix works in 2026

Choose your template carefully

The template decision has a catch: in the Wix Editor, you can't switch to a different template after you've created your site. You can edit the site, but you can't swap its template for another one.

Take your time here. Before committing, look at the template with your own pages and content in mind, rather than choosing only by how the example looks.

It's also worth checking which editor a tutorial covers. Wix Harmony, a newer editor, launched in January 2026. Wix ADI sites have been unsupported since November 10, 2024. If you're following an older guide, check the editor name before trying to follow along.

Get to know the editor

The editor is where you work on your site's pages. But the page itself isn't the only thing you'll want to edit: Wix also gives you settings for how your pages appear in search.

You can change title tags and meta descriptions, edit URL slugs, and add custom structured data markup. Wix provides an automatic sitemap at /sitemap.xml, along with an editable robots.txt file and canonical tags.

That's a lot of terminology. If you're just starting, begin with the page titles, descriptions and URLs rather than trying to work through every SEO setting at once.

Wix also has a 301 redirect manager, with CSV import for up to 500 redirects, and uses server-side rendering. You don't need to make all of those settings part of your first editing session.

Looking for an older feature? The Wix Art Store can't be added to sites anymore; that changed in October 2022.

Understand where your site lives

With Wix, hosting stays with Wix. You can't export a Wix site and host it somewhere else, and Wix doesn't offer a code export.

Keep that in mind before building out your pages. If downloading the site and moving it to another host is something you want, Wix doesn't offer that route.

Your site address depends on your plan. The free plan uses a wixsite.com address and doesn't let you connect a custom domain. It also puts Wix ads on your site.

Most yearly Wix Premium plans include a voucher for a free domain for 1 year, but the voucher only applies to a new domain bought through Wix. It's not an offer for a domain you already own.

And the refund rules are different for plans and domains. New Wix Premium plans have a 14-day money-back guarantee on monthly and yearly billing. Domains aren't refundable.

Here's how the main parts fit together:

Need to accept online payments? Start your comparison at Core, not Light. The free plan doesn't accept them either.

Storage is another difference to check against what you're planning to put on the site. The free plan has both a storage limit and a bandwidth limit of 500 MB; the paid storage allowances are listed above.

You can try the free plan without choosing a paid tier, but you'll be working with the Wix address, ads and free-plan limits.

Where Heya fits

Heya, which publishes this guide, is another no-code builder. You sign in with Google to publish.

Heya Free costs $0 with no credit card and no time limit. It includes 3 sites, up to 5 pages per site, all 68 templates, a yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS and a small Made with Heya badge.

Want the badge removed? Heya Pro Lite is $3 a month, with 3 sites, up to 20 pages per site and links that are no longer marked nofollow.

Heya Pro Standard is $6 a month and includes 5 sites and 1 custom domain per account with HTTPS. Heya doesn't sell domains, so you bring one from a registrar.

Heya Pro Plus is $15 a month, with 25 sites, up to 10 custom domains and the option to download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

There's no built-in store, checkout or form builder. You link a button to your checkout or store page, use a Google Form or Tally form for forms, and use the Calendly embed for bookings.

Related guides: Is Wix worth it?, Wix downsides, Is Wix good for SEO? and Cancel a Wix subscription.

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