More development freedom
You need custom functionality or integrations that are easier to build and maintain in WordPress.
Squarespace → WordPress migration
Move from Squarespace to WordPress without treating the export as the finished job.
Squarespace can export useful content for WordPress, but it does not export the complete design or every platform feature. We use what can be recovered, rebuild what cannot, protect the domain and SEO structure, and keep Squarespace live until the WordPress replacement is ready.
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Send us the website and a short description. We’ll take a look before we reply.
An export is not a finished migration.We do not import an XML file, glance at the homepage and cancel Squarespace. Content, media, forms, styles, products, URLs and platform-specific features all need checking.
Why businesses leave Squarespace
Squarespace may still be perfectly good — move when WordPress offers a real advantage.
Hosting control
You want to choose the infrastructure and have a clearer route to changing hosting provider later.
More developer choice
You want access to the much wider WordPress ecosystem for support, development and future changes.
SEO / content expansion
The website is becoming a larger content, location or search project and needs a more flexible structure.
eCommerce direction changed
You now want WooCommerce, a different checkout/integration stack or functionality outside the current Commerce setup.
Long-term portability
You want the replacement site, database, backups and hosting arrangement to be easier to move and manage in future.
What Squarespace can give usOften exportable / reusable Normally needs separate attention
There is useful exportable content — but also plenty that needs rebuilding.
Squarespace provides a WordPress-format XML export for certain content and separate CSV export options for products. We use those tools where they save time, but we still inventory the site manually because not everything is represented in those files.
- Eligible layout-page content
- A primary blog and its posts
- Text and image blocks
- Some gallery content
- Commerce product data via CSV
- Business copy and branding
- Domain name and existing URL plan
- Site styles and custom CSS
- Store-page design and checkout behaviour
- Portfolio and other platform-specific page types
- Forms and integrations
- Video / audio / special blocks
- Navigation structures such as dropdowns
- Any custom code or third-party services
Squarespace Commerce → WooCommerce
Products are only one part of an online-store migration.
Squarespace can export product data to CSV, which is useful. But a real store migration also needs us to look at product images, variants, categories, stock, customers, historic orders, subscriptions, discount logic, shipping, tax, payments and any integrations the business relies on.
We therefore scope Commerce projects separately rather than assuming a product CSV means the whole shop can be moved automatically.
Squarespace SEO migration
Protect the pages Google already knows before changing the platform.
The XML export is about content. SEO preservation still needs a deliberate URL and launch plan.
Inventory existing URLs
Crawl the live Squarespace site before we alter anything.
Preserve good addresses
Keep useful URL paths where practical rather than renaming pages for no reason.
Redirect deliberate changes
Map 301 redirects from old Squarespace URLs to the correct WordPress replacements.
Carry content & metadata
Check titles, descriptions, headings, copy and internal links rather than trusting an import blindly.
Reconnect tracking
Analytics, Search Console and other important measurement tools are restored on the replacement.
Check after launch
Crawl WordPress, test redirects, verify indexability and monitor problems after the domain switches.
The design does not have to change
Squarespace styles do not export as a WordPress theme, but the visual direction can still be recreated.
Keep it familiar
Use the current Squarespace design as the visual reference and recreate it properly in WordPress.
Improve weak areas
Keep branding and content while improving navigation, mobile layout, speed and conversion.
Redesign completely
If the old design is one reason for leaving, use the WordPress project as a clean opportunity to rethink it.
How a Squarespace → WordPress project works
Export what helps. Rebuild what the export cannot carry.
Audit Squarespace
Inventory pages, blog, store, forms, galleries, custom code, URLs and integrations.
Create exports
Use Squarespace XML / CSV exports where they provide useful source data.
Build WordPress
Create the destination website separately while Squarespace remains live.
Import & rebuild
Import usable content, then recreate layouts and platform-specific functionality properly.
Verify media
Check images and files are really stored on the replacement rather than linked back to Squarespace.
Map SEO
Preserve useful URLs and redirect deliberate changes.
Switch the domain
Update DNS only when WordPress has passed the pre-launch checks.
Monitor & cancel later
Check the live replacement before the old Squarespace service is finally cancelled.
Pricing & hosting
The export can save work, but the replacement is still a new website project.
We quote according to what has to be rebuilt: page count, design, content cleanup, Commerce data, integrations, custom functionality and SEO migration. We do not call it a cheap “migration” if the job is really a complete WordPress build.
After launch, a normal service-business WordPress site can use our hosting from £149.99/year or £18.99/month. WooCommerce and larger sites are matched to the appropriate package or custom infrastructure.
Questions
Squarespace to WordPress FAQs
Can Squarespace export directly to WordPress?
Squarespace can export certain site content as a WordPress-format XML file, which gives us a useful starting point. It does not export the complete design, all page types, all blocks or every Squarespace feature.
Can my Squarespace products be moved to WooCommerce?
Squarespace Commerce products can be exported as CSV, which can help with a WooCommerce migration. We still assess images, variants, categories, customer data, orders, subscriptions and any integrations separately because store migrations vary significantly.
Can I keep my Squarespace design?
Yes. The style itself does not export as a WordPress theme, but we can recreate the existing design direction where that is what you want.
Can I keep my domain name?
Usually, yes. The domain can remain registered with Squarespace or another registrar while the website moves. We check DNS and email records before changing the website destination.
Will the Squarespace site stay live while WordPress is built?
Normally, yes. We build and test the WordPress replacement separately and do not cancel the old platform until the important content, media, forms and launch checks are complete.
What happens to Squarespace forms, galleries, portfolios and custom CSS?
They are reviewed individually. Many platform-specific elements need recreating in WordPress rather than importing directly, so we include them in the migration inventory before quoting the project.
Will moving from Squarespace to WordPress affect SEO?
It can if the migration is careless. We map existing URLs, content, metadata and redirects, then check the replacement after launch so useful search signals are not discarded unnecessarily.
Should every Squarespace website move to WordPress?
No. If Squarespace still suits the business, we would rather tell you that than sell a rebuild you do not need. The move should solve a genuine limitation.
Show us the Squarespace site
We can inspect what will and will not transfer before the call.
Give us the website address, whether it has a blog or shop, what you want WordPress to improve and whether the current design should stay familiar.