Squarespace sites tend to look good, and that is worth protecting. The migration question is usually about capability and cost rather than appearance.
Squarespace is better than most hosted platforms at letting you leave: it offers a proper export of pages, posts and images in a format WordPress understands. That removes a chunk of the risk, and it means the content side of these migrations is usually straightforward.
The design does not come with it. Squarespace templates are proprietary, so the visual side is rebuilt — either reproduced closely, or taken as a chance to improve on it while everything is being touched anyway.
The reasons to move are usually specific: an integration the platform will not support, functionality the template cannot accommodate, or cost at scale. If none of those apply, a Squarespace site that works is not a problem in need of solving.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectThe native export carries pages, posts and images. Cleaner than most, though it still needs checking rather than trusting.
Product data, some gallery formats, custom code blocks and form submissions typically need handling separately.
Squarespace uses particular URL patterns, especially for blog posts. Those need mapping to WordPress equivalents and redirecting.
The template reproduced as a WordPress theme, with the chance to fix anything the template forced you into.
Products, variants and customer records need a deliberate plan. This is the part that makes a migration big rather than small.
Switch over, then watch for crawl errors and broken links for several weeks.
Squarespace handles updates, security and hosting. That becomes a cost and a responsibility after moving.
A blog or brochure site is a modest job. A shop with products, variants and customers is a different project with a different price.
Not the content. Budget for rebuilding the look, and decide early whether you want it reproduced or improved.
A lot of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
Five separate legacy CMS sites, five databases and five themes, consolidated into a single multilingual multisite CMS platform.
Ecommerce · DevelopmentBespoke ecommerce for a luxury coffee supplier — one-off purchases and recurring bulk orders, with accounts, history and simplified repeat ordering.
We will tell you what exports cleanly, what has to be rebuilt, and whether the move is worth making at all.