Squarespace WordPress

Migrate From Squarespace to WordPress

Squarespace locks your design inside template families and offers only a partial export. We rebuild your site faithfully on WordPress, with room to actually grow.

From $390 1-2 weeks

What Squarespace lets you take

  • A partial WordPress-format XML (blog posts, some pages)
  • Images and media
  • Text content across the site
  • Your design as a visual reference

What we rebuild by hand

  • Full design, the XML export excludes layout and styling
  • Squarespace forms and their storage
  • Commerce (products, checkout, orders)
  • Style-editor customizations and injected code
  • Galleries and index/section page structures

Squarespace’s export is a partial one

Squarespace offers an export, but read the fine print: it produces a WordPress-format XML that carries most blog posts and basic pages, and little else. Your design is not included, product/commerce data is not included, forms and their submissions are not included, and anything built with the style editor or code injection stays behind. It is enough to rescue text, not enough to move a website.

That is why a real Squarespace-to-WordPress migration rebuilds the design faithfully and uses the XML only to speed up content transfer.

Why leave Squarespace

  • Design rigidity. Template families constrain layouts; stepping outside them is painful.
  • SEO and speed control. WordPress opens up technical SEO and performance tuning Squarespace keeps shallow.
  • Flat monthly fees forever. You rent indefinitely; owned WordPress hosting is a fraction of the cost.
  • Extensibility. Memberships, complex forms, custom post types, integrations, without hitting platform walls.

How the Squarespace migration works

  1. Run the XML export to seed blog posts and basic pages into WordPress quickly.
  2. Rebuild the design on a lightweight theme, reconstructing your template’s look with editable, maintainable markup.
  3. Recreate forms and galleries natively, wired to your email or CRM.
  4. Rebuild commerce (if any) on WooCommerce, products, categories and checkout, see our store migration approach.
  5. Preserve SEO: keep URLs, 301-map changes, migrate metadata, then launch after side-by-side review.

The result

A site that looks like your Squarespace design but is faster, fully editable and yours to host anywhere, with the freedom to grow past template limits. Estimate your project with the cost calculator or read the migration SEO checklist to see how rankings are protected.

Frequently asked questions

Does Squarespace let me export to WordPress?

Only partially. Squarespace exports a WordPress-format XML with most blog posts and basic pages, but no design, commerce or forms. We use it to speed content transfer and rebuild the design on WordPress.

Will my Squarespace design be preserved?

Yes, we reconstruct your template's look faithfully on WordPress, since the export itself contains no styling. A refresh is optional.

What about my Squarespace store?

We rebuild commerce on WooCommerce: products, categories, images and checkout. Order history stays in Squarespace unless you can export it separately.

Will I keep my Google rankings?

Yes, we preserve URLs where possible, add 301 redirects where they change, and migrate all metadata, so SEO holds and speed usually improves.

How much does a Squarespace migration cost?

From $299 for a typical site; commerce or large content adds to it. The calculator gives an instant estimate and we confirm a fixed price after review.

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