Weebly to WordPress
Weebly to WordPress Migration on a Discontinued Platform
Weebly is closed to new sites and its future is a question nobody at Square will answer, which makes this migration a matter of timing rather than preference. Move the content and the URLs to WordPress while the platform is still serving them. Send the address for a written transfer plan.
Roughly what will this cost?
An estimate from the three things that actually drive the price. A fixed quote follows a look at the site.
Get a fixed quote- Moved while the source is still up, which is the part with a deadline
- Every URL mapped, including the /apps/ and blog paths
- Content and media extracted at full quality before anything lapses
- A platform with a roadmap, on hosting you control
What transfers, what gets rebuilt
| What | Comes across | Needs rebuilding |
|---|---|---|
| Pages and posts | Yes, extracted from the live site | Layout |
| Images | Yes, at source resolution | Alt text where absent |
| URL structure | No | A redirect for every address |
| Weebly apps | No | WordPress equivalents, chosen before the move |
| Forms | No | Rebuilt, submissions stored where you can reach them |
| Store | Products yes, orders no | Checkout, gateway, shipping rules |
| Design | No | Rebuilt as a theme |
A migration with a clock on it
Most platform moves are a choice. This one is a decision about timing.
Weebly is closed to new sites and has had no meaningful development in years. Existing sites still serve, so there is no emergency – but every extraction depends on the source being up, and a platform in this state gives no notice before it changes that.
The practical consequence is that moving while everything works is straightforward and moving after an announcement is not. The content is recoverable today at full quality. That is the whole argument.
What a small site actually needs
Weebly sites tend to be small, which changes the shape of the job in your favour. A forty-page site can have every single URL mapped by hand and verified, rather than sampled and hoped over.
It also means the honest answer to “what does this cost” is usually less than people expect, and that the ongoing question matters more than the move: a WordPress site needs updating, backing up and watching in a way Weebly handled for you. What that involves is WordPress maintenance, and what it costs is on maintenance plans and pricing.
When the platform is closing, the clock matters
A platform in run-off is the one case where waiting has a real cost, because extraction depends on the source still answering. The same urgency does not apply to a Shopify move, where the store keeps trading, or to Sitecore, where the pressure is a licence renewal rather than a shutdown.
What all three share is the redirect map and the order of operations, both set out on WordPress site transfer. After the switch the site needs patching, backups and monitoring like any other, which is what wordpress maintenance plans cover.
How the work runs
- Inventory the old siteEvery URL, every page, every product, every form. The export is checked against a crawl, because platform exports routinely omit what was never a page - landing URLs, redirects already in place, files linked directly.
- Build on WordPress firstContent types, templates and the theme are stood up and populated before anything points here. The old site keeps trading throughout.
- Map every URLOld address to new address, one hop, written down before the switch rather than discovered from 404s afterwards.
- Test what earns moneyForms, checkout, search, login. A migration that moves every page and breaks the enquiry route has failed at the only thing it was for.
- Switch, then watchDNS moves with the TTL already lowered. Real 404s are checked against the redirect map for a fortnight, and the old platform stays paid for until it is provably unnecessary.
The redirect plan
- Crawl the live Weebly site for every reachable URL
- Map the blog path and any /apps/ addresses the platform generated
- Map file and download URLs, which Weebly serves from its own paths
- Publish the map as server-level 301s, one hop
- Re-crawl after the switch and reconcile against real 404s
- Keep the Weebly subscription until the redirects are confirmed working
Plans that include this
- Starter$39/monthor $390 a year — two months freeBlogs, portfolios and brochure sites
- UpdatesMonthly
- BackupsWeekly, 30-day retention
- Uptime5-minute checks
- Malware removalNot included
- Most chosenProfessional$79/monthor $790 a year — two months freeSmall businesses and lead-generation sites
- UpdatesWeekly + PHP version management
- BackupsDaily, 60-day retention
- Uptime1-minute checks
- Malware removalIncluded
- Business$149/monthor $1490 a year — two months freeStores, membership sites, anywhere downtime costs money
- UpdatesWeekly, tested on staging first
- BackupsDaily, 90-day, multi-location
- Uptime1-minute + 2-hour restore
- Malware removalIncluded
The service that covers this
WordPress site transferMove a WordPress site to new hosting without the outage everyone expects. The new install is built and tested while the old one keeps serving, DNS…
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Questions people ask before calling
Is Weebly actually shutting down?
Square has closed it to new signups and stopped meaningful development. Existing sites still serve. That is not the same as a shutdown notice, and it is also not a platform to build the next five years on.
Do I have to move now?
No, and moving while the source is healthy is easier and cheaper than moving under a deadline. The content extraction depends on the Weebly site being up.
What happens to my Weebly store?
Products and customer records come across. Order history does not export usefully, so pull what your accountant needs before you cancel.
Will my search positions hold?
With a complete redirect map, yes. Weebly sites are usually small enough that the map is exhaustive rather than sampled, which makes this one of the safer platform moves.
Can I keep the same domain?
Yes. The domain is yours regardless of who hosts the site, and keeping it is what makes the redirects work.