What it is
Wix Studio 2 is the name partners use for the next version of Wix Studio, the professional editor we build client sites on. Wix showed it to partner agencies as Figma flows: new native React components, a new code engine, and Wix's AI agent, Aria, inside the editor. Using Aria is optional. Anything it does, you can do by hand.
For business sites, the big change is that store, booking and CMS sections stop being black boxes. In the preview, you bind a section to live data, design it however you like, and the logic stays connected underneath.
What Wix has said in public is shorter. Wix's developer docs say it's working on bringing the AI creation experience from Wix Harmony to Wix Studio. In October 2026, Aria arrived in the Wix Studio Workspace (Wix's updates page, 15 October). Wix hasn't published a release date, and it hasn't used the name "Studio 2" on its own site yet.
Wix told partners Studio 1 keeps running alongside Studio 2. Nothing moves on its own.
Last checked against Wix's own pages on 27 October 2026. The full story is in our Wix Studio 2 post, which we update when Wix says more.
From the partner roundtable, not a launch video. Expect details to change before release.
A blank canvas, a template, a prompt loaded with your brand, or a site you like as a structural starting point.
Desktop and mobile breakpoints that fit straight away, with a stop at 700 pixels so layouts don't stretch on wide phones.
Bind a section to Wix Stores, Bookings or a CMS collection, then restyle or rebuild it. The data stays wired up.
“Populate this section with my six top-selling products and refresh it every hour.” Aria built that in the demo, bound to the live store.
Wix's words to partners: “Velo no more.” Custom code sits in a VS Code editor inside the workspace.
What this means for Velo sitesWix told partners Studio 2 is for agencies and developers, and clients won't get the editor. What your site says, and what turns a visitor into an enquiry, still comes from people.
Two editors you can use today, and where Studio 2 fits.
The professional editor we use on every project. Full design control, the CMS, custom code and multilingual sites. Wix told partners it keeps running alongside Studio 2, with migration tools planned.
Wix's AI-first editor, launched in January 2026 for people building their own site. Fine for a simple site you run yourself. Wix's developer docs say it doesn't support site code, and Wix says moving a site between editors isn't available yet.
Wix Harmony vs Wix Studio: which should your business build on?
Our honest answer
Build now, in almost every case. Here's why, and the two cases where waiting makes sense.
Wix told partners launch was “months, not years” away. By late October 2026 there was still no date, and Studio 2 wasn't on Wix's public roadmap. A site that needs work today could sit untouched for months.
When Wix opened the route from the Wix Editor to Studio, the dashboard and its data stayed connected and only the design was rebuilt. CMS collections, members, bookings and store data are the slow part of any build, and they carry over.
Wix told partners the two versions run side by side. Native elements, CMS-driven pages and small, documented code leave the least to untangle later.
Your project can't start for months anyway, or your site depends on heavy Velo code that would need rewriting twice. Plan the content and structure now, and choose the editor when you start.
How we help
We keep logic in the CMS, not in page code. Aldenham Residential's site runs 30 development pages and 89 plot pages from three CMS collections, and their team updates prices and availability themselves. That structure doesn't care which version of the editor draws the page.
We use native Studio elements where they exist and keep custom code small and documented. Every redesign is built as a branch, so the live site keeps taking enquiries until launch day.
Where you start decides the route:
Read how we redesign a Wix site without downtime.
Case studies from real Wix projects, written by the people who built them.
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The next version of Wix Studio, which Wix has shown to partner agencies but not released. It has new React components, a new code engine and Wix's AI agent, Aria, built into the editor. Our Studio 2 post covers what we saw.
Wix hasn't published a date, as of 27 October 2026. At the partner roundtable, Wix said launch was "months, not years" away. Treat any date you see online as a guess until Wix announces one.
No, not automatically. Wix told partners Studio 1 keeps running alongside Studio 2 and migration tools are planned. Your live site stays as it is.
Wix told partners a migration path is planned. Today, Wix says moving a site between editors isn't available, so if you need custom code or a bigger CMS build, start on Wix Studio.
For Studio 2, yes: Wix told partners custom code moves to standard React. Existing Velo sites keep working on Studio 1. We keep custom code small and documented so the rewrite is quick when it comes.
Build now, in most cases. The parts of a site that take longest, the content, the CMS structure and the SEO, sit underneath the editor and carry forward. Waiting only makes sense if your project can't start for months anyway.
Yes, as a redesign. Wix lets you build a Studio version of an Editor site while the original stays live, and the dashboard data stays connected. You need a Premium plan to start and a Studio plan to publish. See Redesign and migration for how we run it.
