Squarespace to WordPress Migration Service
- End to end Squarespace to WordPress migration
- We'll migrate your design, content and functionality
- We'll preserve your existing site structure and meta data
Squarespace to WordPress Migration -
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you migrate from Squarespace to WordPress?
Yes you can migrate from Squarespace to WordPress. If your site is simple, you might be able to use an automated migration tool, if your site is larger you’ll need to find a development partner to manually migrate your site.
How do I migrate from Squarespace to WordPress?
To migrate from Squarespace to WordPress, export your data from Squarespace, import it into WordPress and then rebuild the existing design and functionality of your Squarespace website, taking care to ensure your content and assets are mapped correctly into the right places on WordPress.
What Can Go Wrong With Squarespace
To WordPress Migrations?
Migration Problems
- Design and functionality not replicated correctly
- Site structure including URLs and meta data not preserved
- Third party services including analytics and marketing tools become disconnected and break
- Loss of traffic, leads and rankings
So How Do We
Do It Better?
Square Internet
- We're a small team of experienced WordPress developers who have successfully migrated many Squarespace websites to WordPress
- We'll migrate your website with a careful, measured approach
- We'll ensure your WordPress site is a like for like rebuild of your Squarespace site
- We'll ensure that your site structure, including meta data and internal links, remains the same so your traffic does not decline
How Does Our Squarespace To WordPress
Migration Service Work?
Rebuilding Your Squarespace Website In WordPress
We'll begin by duplicating your existing website and functionality in WordPress. This means making sure your WordPress website looks and performs the same way as your Squarespace website.
Content Mapping
When migrating Squarespace to WordPress, it's important to make sure that your content is mapped from one platform to the other in the right places. This means ensuring that all of your existing pages, posts, links and downloadable content are migrated across in the right way. It also means looking at the HTML structure of your pages, and preserving the right tags. If something is a H1 on your website, it should be a H1 in WordPress to, to prevent any potential problems.
Testing & Going Live
Once your new website looks and functions as it should, and has all of your content correctly mapped into the right places, it's time for testing. We'll need to make sure everything works as intended, and also check that your site structure, including meta data and internal links, has been preserved correctly. When you are happy to go live, we can push your new website live seamlessly, preventing any disruption for your existing website visitors and provide ongoing for your site.
Squarespace to WordPress
Migration Checklist
- Your Squarespace to WordPress migration should be carried out on a staging environment, which is a private server, that does not affect your live website. This way, the work can be carried out safely and methodically, and everything can be fully tested, before it is pushed live to your existing domain where it will replace your old website.
- Have all pages, posts, images and downloadable content been migrated to WordPress?
- Has all the functionality from your old site been migrated across to your new one?
- Is your WordPress site mobile response?
- Has the site structure been preserved, including the meta data? You can right click on a page or post and click "view source" to check this for yourself
- Ensure that you are using the correct domain prefix, if you are using www on your old website, your new site on WordPress should do the same
- Check that any scripts you need for marketing and analytics, or to connect third party services, have been migrated over and placed in the head or body tags as required.