You're Renting, Not Owning
Stop paying monthly to live inside a closed platform. On WordPress you own your site and your content outright — no subscription holds it hostage.
Why Businesses Leave Squarespace for WordPress
Squarespace is polished but closed. The limits you hit are the reasons to move.
A Closed Ecosystem
Squarespace's fixed feature set and limited integrations box you in. WordPress's plugin ecosystem lets your site do whatever your business needs next.
An SEO & Speed Ceiling
Less control over technical SEO and performance than WordPress on fast managed hosting. Moving lifts the ceiling on how high — and how fast — you can grow.
How We Migrate Squarespace to WordPress
Squarespace gives you a partial XML export — a starting point, not a finished migration. We fill the gaps it leaves and protect the one thing that matters most: your rankings.
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Export & inventory
We export your Squarespace content and crawl the live site to catalog every page and URL — including the galleries and media the XML export tends to miss.
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Rebuild on WordPress (staging)
We import your pages and posts, re-import images reliably, and reproduce your design on a fast WordPress build you review before anything goes live.
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Map 301 redirects
Every old Squarespace URL is 301-redirected to its new WordPress address, with titles and meta carried across, so search engines follow you over.
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Launch & verify
Off-peak DNS cutover with your Squarespace site live until the new one is confirmed, then updated sitemaps to Search Console and 30 days of crawl monitoring.
Still Deciding?
Squarespace vs WordPress — an Honest Comparison
Not sure WordPress is the right move? We wrote a straight comparison of WordPress, Squarespace, and Wix — what each is genuinely good at, and when it's worth switching. Read it, then let us handle the move.
Read the ComparisonFree with hosting
Host your migrated site on our managed WordPress hosting and the migration is on us. Standalone migrations are fixed-price, quoted in 24 hours.
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Yes. Squarespace exports an XML file of your pages and blog posts, which we import into WordPress. Its export is partial, though — images, galleries, and some content types don't come across cleanly — so we re-import media and rebuild your design properly rather than leaving gaps.
Not when it's handled correctly. Squarespace URLs change shape when you move, so we build a complete 301 redirect map from every old URL to its new WordPress address, carry over titles and meta, and submit updated sitemaps to Search Console. Your rankings follow you over.
Migration is included free when you host your new WordPress site on our managed hosting. If you'd rather migrate without hosting with us, we quote a fixed price within 24 hours — no surprises either way.
A typical Squarespace site is 3–5 business days from kickoff to launch. Sites with a large blog or many galleries take a little longer. You get a specific timeline after we review your current Squarespace site.
Your choice. We can reproduce your current Squarespace design in WordPress, or use the move as the moment to refresh it. Either way you gain a real open CMS, faster hosting, and full ownership and control.
Ready to Move Off Squarespace?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll review your Squarespace site, confirm the migration plan, and — if you host with us — do the whole move for free.
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