Export Hostinger Website Builder: What Each Option Keeps

You can export a Hostinger Website Builder site in two built-in ways, and one independent way. Sites built in the classic drag-and-drop editor (manual mode) can be exported to WordPress. That export carries your content but not your design: styles, layout, the store, forms, submissions, integrations and SEO settings stay behind. Projects built in the AI Builder's agentic mode can export their code instead. Neither option gives you a ready-to-open copy that looks like the live site. If you want a backup with the same layout and every subpage, download the published site as an offline ZIP.

This guide separates the two modes and lists what each export keeps and drops. It then covers how to save the data that no export touches, so nothing is lost when you move or delete the site.

Manual mode or agentic mode: which export options does your Hostinger site have?

Hostinger's builder now has two ways of working, and they come with different export options. Before planning anything, find out which kind of site you have.

• Manual mode is the classic editor. You drag sections and elements onto a grid, edit text in place and pick styles from panels. Most older Hostinger Website Builder sites, including those that started as Zyro sites, work this way. Even a site whose first draft came from the AI generator is a manual-mode site if you edit it this way afterwards.
• Agentic mode is chat-driven. You describe a change in plain language and the AI Builder rewrites the project's code for you. Instead of a grid of draggable blocks, the editing happens through a prompt panel.

A quick test: open the site in the editor. If you can grab a block and drag it somewhere else, you are in manual mode. If editing mainly means typing instructions to the AI, you are in agentic mode. Hostinger renames and moves menu items from time to time, so check its current help article for the exact button names.

Does the Hostinger export to WordPress keep my design and layout?

No. The Hostinger builder to WordPress export moves content, not presentation. According to Hostinger's own documentation, your pages come across with their text and images, along with blog posts. The following do not come across:

• Styles: colours, fonts, button designs and spacing
• Layout: section structure, columns and how elements sit on the page
• The online store: products, variants, orders and settings
• Integrations such as analytics, chat widgets and tracking codes
• Forms and the submissions they collected
• SEO settings: page titles, meta descriptions and related options

After the export, you have a WordPress site that has your words and pictures but uses a WordPress theme's look. To get the old design back, you rebuild it with a theme or page builder. Check Hostinger's help page for where the WordPress target site has to live before you plan a move to a different host.

To rebuild the design faithfully, you need a reference showing each page as it looked. Screenshots are tedious and miss details. A browsable offline copy of the live site is a much better reference, and the next sections show how to make one.

Agentic mode: exporting the code of an AI Builder project

An AI Builder export from agentic mode gives you the project's source files rather than WordPress content. That suits developers better. You own the code and can put it in version control, edit it in a normal editor and deploy it wherever you like.

There are trade-offs:

• You may need a build step. If the export is a modern JavaScript project, you have to install its dependencies and build it before it can be hosted. You cannot double-click it and see the site.
• Hosting-side features don't come with the files. Form handling, store processing, the domain, SSL and anything else Hostinger runs on its servers has to be replaced on your new setup.
• Content and design are only as current as the export. If you keep editing in the AI Builder afterwards, export again.

Code is a good basis for continuing development. It is a poor answer to what did the site look like on the day I left? For that question, keep a rendered copy alongside the code.

How to export a Hostinger Website Builder site as a complete offline copy

Neither built-in option produces a Hostinger website builder export to HTML that you can simply open. The practical way to get one is to download the published site, the way a visitor's browser sees it. Every page, image, stylesheet, script and font is saved into a ZIP that opens offline. This works for both manual and agentic sites, because it only needs the public URL.

1. Make sure the site is published. Check it in a private browser window on its custom domain, or on the temporary Hostinger address if you never connected one. Unpublished drafts and pages hidden behind a password are not part of a download.
2. Paste the address into the form on the Website Downloader home page and start the download. It runs in the browser, so nothing needs installing, and your computer does not have to stay on while the site is crawled.
3. Watch the progress. The page count updates live, so you can see your subpages being picked up.
4. Download the ZIP, unpack it and open index.html. Click through the menu, a few deep pages and the blog to confirm everything is there.

Most builder sites are small. The Free plan covers up to 100 subpages without an account, but the archive is only kept for 1 day, so save it straight away. For a larger site, or a blog with many posts, the Single Site option is a one-time 7.99 EUR. It covers up to 5000 subpages, an archive of up to 2 GB, and keeps the archive for 30 days. All plans are listed on the pricing page.

Some pages in the copy may look unstyled, or images may be missing. The guide downloaded website missing images and CSS explains the usual causes. If a page comes back as an empty shell, its content is built entirely by JavaScript in the browser. Heavily scripted AI Builder projects are the most likely to be affected. For the general method behind all of this, see download a website as ZIP online.

How do I keep store products, form submissions and SEO settings that the export leaves out?

A full Hostinger website backup covers more than pages. Go through this list while the builder account is still active.

Store data

Products, prices, descriptions, variants and photos appear on public product pages, so the offline copy keeps a readable record of them. That record is a reference, not data you can import into another shop. If the store settings offer a product export, use it. Otherwise, copy the product details into a spreadsheet. Orders and customer details never appear on public pages, so save them from the dashboard. Handle customer data according to the privacy rules that apply in your country.

Form submissions

Messages sent through contact forms are stored in the builder's submissions area, and the export does not carry them over. Export or copy them before you cancel. Check whether your notification emails already hold a complete history. Forms in the offline copy look right, but they cannot send anything.

SEO titles, descriptions and URLs

This is where the offline copy quietly helps. Each saved page's HTML contains the published <title> and meta description. Open a file in a text editor and you can copy them over to the new site. The folder structure also gives you the full list of URLs. You need that list to set up 301 redirects, so search rankings and existing links survive the move.

Media Library files

The offline copy contains the images and files that your published pages actually use, at the sizes they are served. It does not include files that sit unused in the Media Library, and it may not hold the original high-resolution uploads. To keep originals, download them from the Media Library one by one. Videos embedded from YouTube or Vimeo stay on those platforms and are not stored in the ZIP.

Integrations and custom code

Write down your analytics and advertising IDs, any custom code snippets, and third-party widgets such as booking or chat tools. You will need to add them again on the new platform.

Moving to a new host or CMS: a checklist before you delete the builder site

1. Identify the mode, manual or agentic, and run the matching built-in export.
2. Download a complete offline copy of the published site and keep the ZIP somewhere other than your downloads folder.
3. Save store products and orders, form submissions, and original media files.
4. Record SEO titles, meta descriptions and the full URL list. Plan redirects from old URLs to new ones.
5. Note integrations, tracking codes and custom snippets.
6. Rebuild the site on the new platform, using the offline copy as your visual reference.
7. Check the domain separately. A domain registered with Hostinger is not the same thing as the builder plan, and moving it has its own steps.
8. Only after the new site is live and checked, cancel the builder plan or delete the site.

Other builders have the same export gaps. The guides to downloading a Wix website and exporting GoDaddy Website Builder follow a similar checklist.

Limits of an offline copy: forms, cart, search and logged-in pages

An offline copy reproduces what visitors see. It does not reproduce what the server does.

• Forms display but don't send.
• The cart and checkout cannot process orders.
• Site search needs a server and won't return results.
• Member or password-protected pages are not downloaded, because the download cannot log in.
• Some sites block automated downloads, for example with a 403 response. In that case, Website Downloader reports the block instead of handing you an empty archive.

For a backup, a design reference or a record of what you published, these limits rarely matter. For a working shop or a site that collects leads, you still need a real platform. The features page and FAQ cover more detail.

FAQ: HTML export, cancelling your plan and hosting the copy elsewhere

Can I export my Hostinger Website Builder site as HTML?

Not from manual mode. Its built-in export goes to WordPress and leaves the design behind. Agentic mode exports source code, which may need building before it runs. To get plain HTML files that look like the live site, download the published site as an offline ZIP.

How do I tell whether my site was built in manual mode or agentic mode?

Open the site in the editor. If you edit by dragging blocks around a grid, it is manual mode. If editing mainly means writing instructions for the AI, it is agentic mode.

What happens to my builder site if I cancel or switch my Hostinger plan?

Switching between builder plans normally keeps the site. Cancelling, or letting the plan expire, takes the site offline. Don't count on Hostinger keeping the data indefinitely afterwards, so export and download everything first. If the site is already gone, a capture in the Internet Archive may still exist. The Wayback Machine downloader can restore it, and this step-by-step guide explains how.

Can I host a downloaded copy of my Hostinger site somewhere else?

Yes. The ZIP contains static files that any static host can serve. Forms, the cart and search will not work there. Check the licences for any fonts or stock images that came with your template. Using your own content is generally fine, but the rules depend on your country and situation, so ask a lawyer if you are unsure.

How do I download all images, PDFs and videos from the Hostinger Media Library?

The Media Library has no bulk export, so originals have to be saved one at a time. An offline copy quickly captures every image and linked file that your pages actually use. It does not capture unused uploads or videos hosted on YouTube or Vimeo, so do both if the originals matter to you.