Wix ADI Guide: How It Worked and What Replaced It

By Michael AustinOwner and Editor

Updated Oct 2, 2026Published Nov 1, 20178 min read

Note (October 2026): Wix stopped supporting the ADI builder on November 10, 2024. Existing ADI sites now open in the Wix Editor, and Wix’s AI website builder, now part of Wix Harmony (launched January 2026), took its place.

Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence) was a Wix tool, launched in June 2016, that built a website from your answers to a few questions. Wix stopped supporting ADI on November 10, 2024. To create a site with AI on Wix today, you use the Wix AI website builder in Wix Harmony: describe the site in a prompt, adjust the design, then publish.

The Internet has evolved at an astounding pace over the last couple of decades and so has the content that we find on it. Gone are the days when websites used to be limited to lines of text on a boring unicolour background. The modern internet is dominated by sites that are intuitive, fast and most importantly, they capture the user’s imagination.

Create Your Own Website With Wix ADI (Retired in 2024)

But as websites have evolved, so has the complexity in getting them to life. A responsive website has several components running underneath which helps it to function smoothly. And while traditional platforms like WordPress and Joomla do exist, setting up a site that looks good as well as performs excellently is a daunting task for anyone who is looking to make their first foray into the Internet.

Wix’s answer, from 2016, was a website builder powered by artificial intelligence. The Wix ADI was a platform, launched by Wix in June 2016, that generated a website from a user’s answers to a few questions, with no coding needed. Wix stopped supporting ADI on November 10, 2024, so this guide explains how it worked and then shows you how to create a website for free using Wix’s current AI tools in place of the retired Wix ADI.

But before we begin the nitty gritty of the process let us first run though a few pre requisites! When ADI was available, logging into the Wix website creation panel offered two options: the Editor and Wix ADI. Now the editor is something that professional site builders would be intricately familiar with as it provides granular control over every step of the website creation process.

Wix ADI, on the other hand, was more suited to those who are just beginning to get into the website development world and are yet to learn the ropes. With Artificial Intelligence at the helm of things, creating a beautiful, fast and fluid website is easy and what’s more, there is no need to get one’s hands dirty by digging around in source code. However, if at any moment you’d desire to get more control over the website, the editor is always there so the switch between AI and manual mode is as seamless as it is effortless!

The steps below describe how creating a website with Wix ADI worked before it was retired; the current Wix AI method is covered in the new sections further down. For the ease and convenience of our readers we have broken down the process into several easy to follow steps!

Step 1

In the ADI workflow, users logged into the Wix account dashboard and clicked the + icon to start a new site.

Step 2

Once that is done we would be greeted with the Wix Site selector interface. These are basically templates for the sort of site that we would want ours to be modelled on. A wide variety of choices exist from templates for business, photography. Music, restaurants, beauty as well as blogs and from these bare bones site designs our journey begins!

Step 3

Now comes the most important bit! While there are loads of run of the mill sites out there, most of them lack individuality both in design language as well as the content they dish out. Wix ADI changes that by providing your site your very own personal touch while keeping a suitable design layout that reflects the needs we have chosen in our earlier step.

While we could change everything we need to in our site from the editor, for the sake of simplicity and to demonstrate just how intuitive Wix ADI is; we would now answer a few simple questions that the AI puts to us and then sit back and watch while it builds our website in a matter of minutes!

Step 4

Once we are happy with the level of customization and design choices that Wix ADI has made for the website we can hit publish and just like that our website would go live. It’s Just that easy and hassle free when you let an AI handle all the heavy lifting of the code and we can build beautiful functional websites while just concentrating on design choices.

But Wix doesn’t just stop there! Once the website is up and running that is only half the battle done. The rest of it lies in getting the website enough publicity so that it reaches the right eyes and your excellent design and fluid user interface can be enjoyed by thousands across the globe. That requires something that is commonly known in the industry as SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

There is a lot of information about SEO online. Wix includes built-in SEO tools for its sites, though search rankings still depend on the quality and relevance of the content you publish. Building a website on Wix’s free plan costs nothing, but according to Wix support (as of October 2026) a free site shows a Wix banner ad, uses a siteprefix.wixsite.com/siteaddress address and is limited to 500MB storage and 1GB bandwidth; connecting a custom domain requires a paid plan.

Wix ADI itself is no longer available, but its idea of AI-built websites continues in the Wix AI website builder. As the age-old saying goes

“The best things in life are free!” 🙂

What Happened to Wix ADI?

Wix ADI was retired on November 10, 2024. According to Wix’s support article “ADI Sites No Longer Supported”, Wix no longer supports sites created with the ADI builder from that date.

• Published or active ADI sites stayed live and look the same to visitors; they now open in the Wix Editor when the owner edits them.
• Unpublished ADI sites that had been inactive for six months or more were deleted and can no longer be accessed.
• Wix’s recommended alternatives are the AI website builder for new sites and the Wix Editor for existing ADI sites.

How Do You Create a Website With Wix AI Today?

Wix’s current AI method uses a written prompt instead of ADI’s question-and-answer flow. Wix describes the process in three steps:

1. Write your prompt. Describe the website you want: the type of business, your goals, the pages you need and your preferred style.
2. Tweak the design. Aria, the AI agent in Wix Harmony, generates a complete site with prebuilt content within minutes. You can ask Aria to regenerate or change parts of it, or edit any element by hand with drag-and-drop tools.
3. Publish. Preview the site on different devices, make final changes, then publish on a free Wix domain or a custom domain.

Wix’s AI website builder page states that you can start for free with no credit card, while features such as a custom domain and online payments need a paid plan.

Wix ADI vs. Wix AI Website Builder vs. Wix Editor

What Does a Free Wix Website Include?

A free Wix website includes 500MB of storage and 1GB of bandwidth, according to Wix’s support article “Building a Website for Free” (as of October 2026). Other free-plan details from Wix support:

• The address takes the form siteprefix.wixsite.com/siteaddress.
• A Wix banner ad appears on every page, with a Wix favicon in the browser tab; removing them requires a Premium plan.
• Connecting your own domain requires upgrading to a paid plan.
• Sites on a free wixsite.com address cannot use Google AdSense.
• An account can create up to 999 free websites.

Paid plan prices vary by country and billing period, so check Wix’s current pricing page before you buy.

Wix at a Glance

Wix.com was founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. According to Wikipedia, Wix had more than 260 million users worldwide and revenue of $1.76 billion in 2024. In June 2025, Wix acquired Base44, an AI vibe-coding company.

Other Ways to Build a Website

Wix is one of several options for beginners. For a side-by-side look, read WordPress vs. Wix compared or Wix vs. GoDaddy. If you prefer a no-code route on other platforms, see how to create a website without coding, and for the bigger picture on AI tools, read how AI website builders help local small businesses. Store owners can browse Wix eCommerce templates.

Written byMichael AustinOwner and Editor

Michael Austin is the current owner of Justwebworld and manages the platform’s editorial direction, content strategy, and digital publishing operations. With a strong interest in online media and modern publishing, he focuses on creating informative, engaging, and easy-to-understand content across multiple categories. Under his leadership, Justwebworld continues to grow as a trusted multi-niche digital publication covering technology, business, lifestyle, automotive, sports, travel, and trending internet topics for readers worldwide.

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