Move what I already built onto bernard

Almost nobody arrives here empty-handed. You have a site somewhere, and often a course library or a shop somewhere else, and the question is not whether it can move but how much of it survives the trip.

The honest answer depends entirely on where it lives now. Some platforms hand over a proper export file, and a whole library walks across in an afternoon. Others have no export at all, and the only way out is for someone to read your work off the screen and rebuild it. Both routes end in the same place. Neither loses your links.

Start with your website

If it is a normal website - WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and the rest - it comes across on its own. You paste the address, bernard reads the real pages and shows you a free show-home before you decide anything.

Leaving Squarespace has one extra trap worth reading first, because your domain and your email can be tangled together there (Leave Squarespace without breaking my domain or email). Leaving WordPress has the opposite problem, and it catches more people: nothing is bundled, so your website, your domain and your email may sit at three different companies, and your mailboxes may be on the very server you are about to switch off (Leave WordPress without breaking my email or losing my site). Wix worries people for the opposite reason, because it has no export button at all, and it turns out not to matter (Leave Wix when there's no way to export my site). Webflow does have one, which is exactly the trap, because of what it quietly leaves behind (Leave Webflow without the export leaving half my site behind). Two more things worth knowing before you start: what happens to the pages you never published (What happens to my unpublished or draft pages when I move?), and the tidying bernard does to every page on the way in, without being asked (What bernard improves automatically when it moves your site). If your old signup forms stop collecting after the move, that has a known cause and a quick fix (My signup forms stopped working after the move).

Then find your course platform

This is where the routes genuinely differ, so pick the page that matches where your teaching lives today.

It gives us a file we can read. LearnDash exports your whole library and bernard reads that export directly - modules, lessons, sub-lessons, worksheets and ordering (Move my courses off LearnDash or WordPress). This is the fastest route by a distance.

It was built in authoring software. Courses published out of Articulate Storyline or Rise arrive as a package, and the video and captions inside it come across without anyone re-typing or re-transcribing a thing (Move my Articulate Storyline or Rise course onto my own site). The same is true of a plain SCORM package from any authoring tool (Move my SCORM or xAPI course out of an LMS). If those packages are played on your WordPress site through GrassBlade, read that page too, because the structure and the teaching live in two different places (Move my courses off GrassBlade and WordPress).

It has no export button at all. Podia is the clearest example: no export, no API, nothing to download. Your work is still reachable, but only by someone reading it out of your account with your permission (Move my courses and members off Podia).

It is Teachable, Thinkific or Kajabi. These are rebuilt from your syllabus today, and tools to read them directly are on our roadmap (Move my course off Teachable onto my own site, Move my course off Thinkific onto my own site, Move my courses and site off Kajabi).

And your shop

Products, prices, images and descriptions come across from Shopify as drafts you check before anything lists (Move my Shopify shop across).

What is true on every route

• Nothing goes live until you say so. Everything lands as a private draft. You walk it, fix what you want, and publish when you are happy.
• Your links keep working. Old addresses point at the new pages, so years of search ranking follow you instead of dying.
• Students and order history stay put. Anyone mid-course finishes where they started. Your new site begins with a clean list.
• Nothing is silently dropped. Anything that cannot be carried across is named in a report and handed to you, rather than quietly vanishing.