Wix Forum: Move Your Forum to Wix Groups
4 min
In this article
- Step 1 | Move your forum to Wix Groups
- Step 2 | Update and publish your site
- Step 3 | Add existing members to your groups
- Step 4 | Maintain your SEO and engagement
- FAQs
Wix Forum will be discontinued on March 1, 2026. To ensure your community stays active and connected, you can migrate your forum to Wix Groups. The transition is simple: groups will automatically be created for your forum categories, including posts, comments, and members. After making the move, all you need to do is publish your site, manage your member list, and customize your groups to suit your needs. Make sure to also redirect URLs to keep your SEO intact.
Important:
- Posting in Wix Forum will be disabled starting October 15, 2025.
- Wix Forum will be discontinued on March 1, 2026. After this date, your forum and all its data will be deleted. Migrate your forum data before this deadline to avoid losing your content.
Step 1 | Move your forum to Wix Groups
Migrating your forum is straightforward. Once you click Move Forum to Wix Groups in your site's dashboard, we will create groups for each category in your site, with the same name and privacy settings as your existing categories. Posts, comments, and reactions from your categories will be automatically copied to their respective group.
For example, if you have a category called "General Discussions" that is accessible to everyone, we will create a group named "General Discussions" that is public and open to all.
You can only migrate your forums to groups once. New posts or updates added to your forum after the migration will not be transferred to Groups, so ensure everything is ready before starting the migration process.
Subcategories in your forum will be migrated as individual groups, keeping your categories and groups clear and organized.
To move your forum to Wix Groups:
- Go to Forum in your site's dashboard.
- Click Move Forum to Wix Groups in the banner.
- Click Move Now to confirm you're ready to move to Wix Groups.
Note: After clicking Move Now, a progress bar appears, showing the migration of your forum components to groups. This automated process creates groups and imports posts, comments, and reactions for each forum category.
- (Optional) Once the move is done, you can go to Groups to ensure that your newly created groups are set to your desired preferences.
Step 2 | Update and publish your site
Click Go to Editor to finish adding Wix Groups. Then, customize your site's group pages and publish your site to make the changes live.
Step 3 | Add existing members to your groups
After publishing your site, add your forum members to your groups. Public members get moved to the new groups that match their forum categories, and members with private profiles receive an email invitation to join their matching groups. Learn more about adding and managing your group members.
To add existing members to your groups:
- Go to Forum in your site's dashboard.
- Click Add Members next to Add forum members to your groups.
Tip:
Notify your members about the change and inform them that they can start using groups.
Step 4 | Maintain your SEO and engagement
To preserve your site's SEO, redirect all URLs from your forum to your new group pages, ensuring existing traffic transitions smoothly. Each group has its own unique URL and customizable SEO preferences, while each group post has a unique URL for easy sharing.
Finished the migration process?
Delete Wix Forum to prevent confusion and ensure all community interactions are done in Wix Groups.
FAQs
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What happens during migration?
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What can I do to save subcategories before migrating?
