Jovinna
Jovinna Chan's Squarespace site confused the students it was meant to serve. We moved her to WordPress, rebuilt the brand and the user journey, and have kept the site current from the other side of the Pacific for five years.
Squarespace to WordPress Migration
Selling courses, taking bookings or running a members area on Squarespace means fees on every sale and extra subscriptions. We rebuild the site in WordPress and keep the look.
Squarespace sells you the next feature
Squarespace templates are some of the best looking on the web. A new site feels finished on day one.
By year two, the costs arrive. Courses, memberships and other digital products pay a fee on every sale unless you’re on the top plan. Bookings are a separate Scheduling subscription. Layouts sit inside the template. Going beyond it needs custom code, which the entry plan doesn’t allow.
Squarespace’s WordPress export carries one blog, your basic pages and their text. Products, events, extra blogs, video, styling and the images themselves stay behind.
Everything the export leaves behind
You've probably felt one of these
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Every course sale pays a fee
Digital products carry a sales fee on most Squarespace plans.
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Bookings are another subscription
Scheduling bills separately from the site, and the two don't share much.
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The template decides the layout
You change the content to fit the design.
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Your enquiries go missing
Form entries arrive late, land in spam or never arrive.
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You need a second blog or a resource library
Squarespace sites can run several blogs, but only one leaves with you.
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You'd like to own the build
Code, content and hosting you control, with any developer able to work on it.
Trusted by businesses across Singapore and Australia
Your Squarespace site stays up while we build
Keep the subscription running until the new site has been live for a month.
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Discovery
Every page, blog, product and form listed, with Search Console data on what brings traffic.
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Plan
A URL map, a content plan and a WordPress home for each block, tool and integration.
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Design
The current look carried over, or refreshed. Two rounds of revisions on the homepage and two on inner pages.
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Build and migrate
Built on a private copy. Export imported, images downloaded and everything else rebuilt.
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Test
Redirects, forms and checkout tested before the domain moves.
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Launch and training
We point the domain at WordPress, then train your team on the new editor.
What you're running on launch day
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Courses and members on your site
Sell digital products through WooCommerce or a membership plugin on your own site.
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Bookings built in
A booking plugin on the site itself, or your existing tool connected properly.
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Layouts your team can build
Reusable blocks in your design, ready for the next page.
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Old links still working
Every Squarespace address redirected and tested before launch.
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Forms that arrive
Gravity Forms, each enquiry routed to the right person and delivery checked.
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Care from $147 a month
Updates, backups and security after launch, if you want us to look after it.
“I especially loved the questionnaire that Shaan sent me at the beginning of the process. It helped me to get clear of my vision and mission.”
Five years after leaving Squarespace
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2021
Moved off Squarespace
Jovinna Chan's site, rebuilt in WordPress and live since June 2021.
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5 years
On our care plan
Updated from Singapore for a teacher in California, a 16-hour time difference.
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8 to 12 weeks
Typical timeline
From discovery to launch for most Squarespace sites.
- Have a project in mind?
Room for the business you're building
WordPress runs over 40% of the web, so whatever you add next has usually been built before.
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Sell without a platform cut
Courses, downloads and memberships through plugins you own. Card fees are the only fees.
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As many blogs as you need
News, articles, case studies and resources, each with its own fields.
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Bookings and payments in one place
Visitors book, pay and get their confirmation without leaving your site.
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Any developer can take over
It's standard WordPress, so you're never tied to one supplier.
Before you leave Squarespace
What the WordPress export carries
Squarespace’s export (Settings, Import and export) gives you layout pages, one blog with its posts and comments, gallery pages, and text and image blocks. It leaves out store, event, album and portfolio pages, any second blog, audio, video and product blocks, drafts, styling and custom CSS. Images stay on Squarespace’s servers until someone downloads them. The site also has to be published and public before the export will run.
Leaving Squarespace in the right order
Export first, while the site is live. Download the images and form entries. Launch the WordPress site, then point the domain at it. If the domain was bought through Squarespace, you can transfer it out (up to 15 days, and not within 60 days of buying it) or keep it there and change the DNS. Google Workspace is often billed through Squarespace too, so move that billing before you close anything. Cancel the website subscription last. Squarespace won’t delete a site that still has a domain or subscription attached, and a deleted site can’t be counted on to come back.
When to stay on Squarespace
If the site is a handful of pages, sells physical products and the template fits, stay. Move when the fees, add-on subscriptions and workarounds start costing more than a rebuild.
Tools we use on Squarespace moves
Audit and discovery
- Screaming Frog
- Ahrefs
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics 4
Build and content
- WordPress (custom theme or Beaver Builder)
- Advanced Custom Fields Pro
- Gravity Forms
- WooCommerce
Migration and SEO protection
- Squarespace XML import
- image download and relinking
- URL mapping and redirects
- SEOPress
- pre- and post-launch ranking checks
Performance and security
- Cloudflare
- Perfmatters with server-level caching (Nginx and Redis)
- optimised hosting
- image optimisation
Questions about moving from Squarespace
The answers to your questions. Get in touch if you can't find what you're looking for.
You can, and you’ll get your pages and one blog. Products, events, extra blogs, styling and the images themselves don’t come with it. That’s the part we rebuild.
They should hold. Each old address gets a 301 redirect, a permanent forward Google follows, and we check Search Console after launch.
Yes. Products, variants and images move to WooCommerce from a product export. Orders and customer accounts depend on what Squarespace lets us export, and we confirm that in discovery.
We replace them with WordPress plugins, or connect the tool you already use. Members come across from a CSV, and they set a new password the first time they log in.
Yes. We rebuild the look you have, or refresh it during the move.
The domain can stay at Squarespace or move to another registrar. Either way we point it at the new site. Email keeps working as long as the MX records come across, which we check before the switch.
8 to 12 weeks for most sites. Larger stores and sites with custom features take longer.
Most Squarespace moves cost $8,000 to $15,000. It’s priced as a rebuild, with a fixed quote after discovery.
A month after launch, once the domain points to WordPress and nothing has been missed. Cancelling earlier unpublishes the old site, and any images still linked from it break.
Your team handles the content. Care plans from $147 a month cover updates, backups and security, and you can leave whenever you like.
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