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How to convert your Framer site to WordPress

Framer builds slick, animated sites from a design canvas — but the result is a hosted site on Framer's platform, with its own plans and no WordPress CMS behind it. Moving to WordPress gives you a self-hosted site you own outright: a real CMS, thousands of plugins, your own SEO and forms, and hosting you choose.

The free Site Converter rebuilds your Framer design into a native, fully editable WordPress site — real page-builder pages, a matching theme, menus and Media Library. Because Framer renders in the browser, the reliable path is to convert from its published URL: the converter opens the live page in real Chrome and reads the computed styles, so it reproduces the real design rather than guessing at it.

Step 1 — Publish your Framer site (get a URL)​

In Framer, Publish your project so it's live on your *.framer.website / *.framer.app address or your custom domain. Make sure the page you want is publicly reachable.

Step 2 — Install Unyson+ and Site Converter​

  1. Install and activate Unyson+ (free).
  2. Unyson+ → Extensions → activate Site Converter.
  3. Start the capture service — for a URL conversion this is what renders the page in Chrome and captures the real colors, fonts and layout. (One-time local setup.)

Step 3 — Convert from the URL​

The Unyson+ Convert screen — choose From a URL and paste your published Framer link, then convert
  1. Unyson+ → Convert → Convert tab → From a URL.
  2. Paste your published Framer URL.
  3. Set options — Create child theme, Capture header/footer, Import images, optional AI assist (an optional Claude pass that only refines the section mapping; the design is always reproduced deterministically).
  4. Click Convert to WordPress, or Review mapping first, then Build the site.

Full walkthrough: Convert from a URL.

Step 4 — Edit in the builder​

Every page comes across fully editable in the page builder — tweak sections, swap content, then add the things a hosted Framer site can't give you: posts, forms, WooCommerce, SEO plugins. It's a normal WordPress site now.

Multi-page Framer sites

Convert each page from its own published URL. Menus and the footer are rebuilt as real WordPress menus and widget areas.

Not close enough? Let an AI agent finish the job

An automatic conversion is a close, editable starting point — not always pixel-perfect. To get it the rest of the way, hand it to an AI agent like Claude: it runs the conversion, compares the result to your original section by section, and refines it until it matches. See Convert a site to WordPress with an AI agent.

FAQ​

Does Framer export to WordPress? Not natively — a Framer site stays on Framer's platform. Converting from the published URL rebuilds the design as native, editable WordPress pages instead.

Is it free? Yes — Unyson+ and the Site Converter are free, with no pro tier.

What about my animations? The layout, styling and content are rebuilt as editable pages; re-add motion with the free Animation Engine, which does scroll, parallax and text effects natively in WordPress.

Is it a static copy? No — it rebuilds the design as editable Unyson+ pages, not an iframe or a screenshot.

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