Convert your Squarespace website to WordPress

The risk in any migration is old URLs going dead, so that’s the part I plan first. Every Squarespace address gets a 301 redirect to its new equivalent, and titles, meta descriptions, headings and alt text come across with the content, so the signals Google associates with your pages are protected rather than reset. Rankings can wobble for a few weeks while Google re-crawls — that’s normal, and it settles. I won’t promise positions; what I can promise is that the redirect map is done properly rather than left to chance. If you want visibility pushed further afterwards, that’s ongoing SEO rather than part of the migration.

Your pages, text, images, PDFs and blog posts all end up on the new site — but not all of it arrives through the export. Squarespace’s own export handles standard pages, one blog, galleries and basic text and image blocks. Products, album pages, events, forms, custom CSS and a lot of block layouts are left out, so those get rebuilt by hand. I go through your site before quoting and tell you which parts fall where, so nothing surfaces halfway through.

It depends almost entirely on size and complexity — a handful of brochure pages is a very different job from a large site with a shop attached. I’ll give you a realistic timeframe with the quote, once I’ve seen the site, rather than a number plucked out of the air. What matters day to day is that Squarespace stays live and taking enquiries throughout: the new site is built on a staging address, you review it there, and the switch happens on a date that suits you.

Yes, and this is the bit people are most nervous about. I build with visual page builders, so editing text, swapping images and publishing posts works much like the Squarespace editor you already know. I’ll train you at handover and you keep every login. If you’d rather never touch it, hosting and support from £10 per month covers updates, backups and security, so the site looks after itself the way Squarespace used to.

It stays yours and your web address doesn’t change. If the domain is registered with Squarespace it can be transferred out; if it’s elsewhere, I point it at the new hosting. Either way the new site is built on a temporary address first, so your existing site keeps trading until the new one goes live. Email tied to the domain is checked before the switch.

Shops are rebuilt rather than imported, because products are one of the things the export leaves out. Variants, images, categories and descriptions go into WooCommerce, your payment gateway is reconnected, shipping and tax rules are set up again, and test orders are run before go-live. Old product URLs get redirects like any other page. For many shops the sums are the reason for moving at all: Squarespace commerce plans take a percentage of sales on the lower tiers, whereas WooCommerce itself is free and you only pay your payment processor.

Your choice. Some want the new site to look identical so customers notice nothing; others treat the move as the moment to update a template they’ve had for years. The design is rebuilt either way, so both cost much the same. If it’s the look you’re unhappy with rather than the platform, a website redesign may be the better conversation.

No. I’m based in Brighton, Sussex, but a migration is done entirely remotely — I work with businesses across the UK over email, phone and video. You can see finished builds in my portfolio.