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Squarespace to WordPress

Squarespace to WordPress, with every URL accounted for.

Squarespace is easy to start on. It gets limiting when you need a plugin it does not have, SEO settings it does not expose, or a site your team can extend without a workaround.

Squarespace’s export button gets you part of the way. We handle the rest: the content it leaves behind, the images still on Squarespace’s servers, and the URLs that need a new home.

Planning the move?

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Why teams make this move

Limited SEO control.

Fewer options for redirects, schema, and page-level settings.

No plugin ecosystem.

Integrations need code injection or third-party embeds.

Growth outpaces the templates.

Membership, directories, multilingual or complex forms.

What moves, what gets rebuilt, what stays behind

Moves across

Comes across as it is

  • Pages and blog posts (via Squarespace’s WordPress export)
  • Images (downloaded, not hotlinked)
  • Blog categories and tags
  • Titles and descriptions
Gets rebuilt

Built again on the new platform

  • The design, as a block theme
  • Forms and newsletter sign-ups
  • Pages the export skips, rebuilt by hand
  • Sitemap, schema and redirects
Stays behind

Left on the old platform

  • Squarespace styling and template settings
  • Squarespace-only blocks and extensions
  • Code injection snippets you no longer need

Squarespace’s export does not cover everything. Store products, events and some page types need a separate route. If you sell on Squarespace, see.

How we run it

  1. 01Inventory every URLfrom the sitemap, Search Console, analytics and a crawl. Squarespace URL mappings you set up earlier go on the list too.
  2. 02Export what Squarespace exports,then list what it skipped.
  3. 03Download every imageinto the WordPress media library, and rewrite the links.
  4. 04Rebuild the designon a block theme, matched to your current site or improved, your choice.
  5. 05Map every old URL.Squarespace blog posts often live under /blog/. WordPress can keep that path.
  6. 06Move the domain and DNS with care.If Squarespace also manages your domain, email records move too.
  7. 07Launch, test on production, watch Search Console.

Where this usually goes wrong

Images still load from Squarespace.

Everything looks fine until the Squarespace plan ends.

The domain is registered through Squarespace.

DNS changes can take email down if records are not copied first.

Pages missing from the export

are only noticed after launch.

What we won’t promise

That the export file alone is a migration. It is a starting point. The inventory, the image move and the redirect map are what make it safe.

Frequently asked questions

Will my URLs change?+

Only if you want them to. WordPress can match most Squarespace URL patterns. Anything that does change gets a permanent redirect.

Can we keep our domain?+

Yes. If Squarespace holds the domain, you can keep it there and point DNS, or transfer it. We check your email records first.

When should we cancel Squarespace?+

After launch, once every image and file loads from WordPress and redirects are tested. Keep it a little longer if your domain is registered there.

Do you move ecommerce too?+

Yes, that is.

Ready to leave Squarespace?

Send your current URL. We will tell you what the move involves before you commit.

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