Your words, verbatim
Headings and paragraphs are taken word for word. They are yours and they are usually the part you care most about.
Bring your Squarespace site
Squarespace exports an XML file. Bring the website.
Squarespace’s help centre is straightforward about it: the export is content as .xml, intended for WordPress, and the design relies on their JavaScript and CSS, which do not come. This reads the site as your visitors see it and rebuilds it here — pages, words, images, forms.
Nothing on your current site is changed. It keeps running until you decide otherwise.
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In short
Paste the address. The public pages are rebuilt here with your words and pictures as files, forms working, and you point your domain when it is right. Squarespace Commerce, Scheduling and Member Areas are services inside pages; each is named at the end with an offer to build the equivalent.
What comes with you
Four things Squarespace keeps, brought here.
Your pictures, as files
Images are downloaded and kept in the project as real files — not linked back to the old host, so the site keeps working after you cancel.
Your forms, working
Every form is rebuilt as a working form that sends enquiries to you here, instead of into the old account.
Your details, exactly
Phone number, address, opening hours — brought over exactly as you wrote them.
What Squarespace itself lets you take
| Question | Squarespace’s own export | Bringing it here |
|---|---|---|
| The site as code | No — the design relies on their JS and CSS | The whole site as pages: words verbatim, images as files, forms working, in a git repository you own |
| Your text | Content as .xml, for WordPress | Word for word, in the rebuilt pages |
| Your images | Served from Squarespace while the plan is active | Downloaded into the project as files |
| Your forms | Squarespace forms, inside Squarespace | Rebuilt as working forms that send enquiries to you here |
| Your domain | Registered or connected at Squarespace | Point it here when you are ready; it stays yours |
Export limits are quoted from Squarespace’s own help centre, Exporting your site, as read on 31 August 2026. Squarespace shows its prices behind a consent screen, so none is quoted here. The right-hand column is what the import does today, quoted from the brief it sends the machine.
What actually happens
Five steps, one field.
- You paste the addressThe one you print on a card. Not an export file, not a plugin, not a login to Squarespace.
- It has a look before anything is createdIt recognises a Squarespace site from the page itself. You see the site’s name, its icon and how many pages it found. If that is not your site, nothing has been made and nothing has been spent.
- It reads your pages, politelyOne request a second, robots.txt obeyed. Your live site is your business; ours does not get to hammer it.
- It rebuilds, page for pageThe same pages at the same addresses, your words verbatim, your images as files, your forms working. The layout is rebuilt to be modern and responsive — it is not a pixel-for-pixel copy, and it says so.
- It tells you what it could not bringOne plain sentence for each thing that was somebody else’s service inside a page, and an offer to build the equivalent.
What will not travel
The parts of Squarespace that are not pages.
Squarespace Commerce
Product pages come over as pages; the cart and checkout are their service. The rebuild names it and offers a catalogue with a checkout built here.
Scheduling
An appointment calendar is a service inside a page. It is listed at the end with an offer of a booking form or a calendar built here.
Member Areas
Logins and gated content are named in one plain sentence, with an offer to build the equivalent.
A site with more than forty pages is brought over forty at a time: the first pass covers the first forty, says so at the end, and offers to do the rest. That number is on screen before you press the button, with a rough price beside it.
After it is here
Your domain points here when you say so.
The rebuilt site goes live on an address of ours first, so you can read every page before anyone else does. When it is right, connect the domain you already own — the same one Squarespace has been serving — and cancel the old plan whenever you like, or never.
From then on you change it by asking. “Put the holiday hours on the front page.” No editor to learn and nothing to update. And the whole thing is a normal git repository from the first turn: clone it, download it, or hand it to any developer.
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Your Squarespace site
read from its public pages
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Rebuilt here
words, images, forms, structure
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Your domain
pointed here when you are ready
Related
Start with the address Squarespace is serving now.
It costs nothing to look — the name, the icon and the page count show before anything is created.
Your existing site keeps running exactly as it is.
Questions
Asked, answered
Can I export my Squarespace site?
Squarespace's help centre, as read on 31 August 2026, describes the export as content in .xml format intended for WordPress, and says the design relies on their JavaScript and CSS. Bringing it here reads the public pages instead, so the structure and the words come across and the layout is rebuilt.
Will it look the same?
The same pages, the same addresses, your headings and text word for word, your images as files. The layout is rebuilt to be modern and responsive rather than copied pixel for pixel — if you want it closer, you say so in the chat after it is built.
What happens to Squarespace Scheduling or Commerce?
They are Squarespace's services inside your pages, so they do not travel as pages. The rebuild lists each one in a plain sentence and offers to build the equivalent here.
Does my Squarespace site get changed?
No. It is read the way a visitor reads it, one request a second. It keeps running until you cancel it, which you do when — and if — you decide to.