Moving from Squarespace to WordPress is a common request from founders, agencies, and small-business owners. WordPress opens the door to deeper SEO tooling, WooCommerce, membership plugins, and full ownership of your hosting stack. The traditional path is slow: you export content as CSV or XML, find a new theme, rebuild the layout, and hope the design survives the move. There is a faster way.
Why move from Squarespace to WordPress?
Squarespace is great for getting online quickly, but it locks you into its platform and template system. WordPress gives you granular control over performance, schema markup, caching, and third-party integrations. If you want to scale organic traffic, run a store, or connect marketing automation tools, WordPress is usually the better long-term home.
The old Squarespace-to-WordPress workflow
The classic method involves exporting your Squarespace content to a WordPress-compatible XML file, importing it into WordPress, then choosing a new theme and rebuilding every page that did not import cleanly. Images may need to be re-uploaded, fonts may change, and custom CSS often breaks. The result is a functional WordPress site, but rarely a pixel-perfect match.
Convert Squarespace to WordPress in one click
Themify flips the process. Instead of exporting content and rebuilding the design, it reads the fully rendered Squarespace page in your browser and packages it as a real WordPress theme. This means the page you see on Squarespace becomes the page you see on WordPress, complete with layout, typography, images, animations, and responsive breakpoints.
1. Publish your Squarespace site
Make sure your Squarespace page is live on its public URL, whether that's a built-in .squarespace.com subdomain or a custom domain. The page must render in a normal browser window without requiring a login.
2. Open the page in Chrome
Navigate to the Squarespace page you want to convert. If you have multiple pages, open each one in turn — Themify can follow internal links to capture multi-page sites.
3. Run the Themify extension
Click the Themify extension icon and press Generate theme. The extension captures the rendered DOM, resolves every asset, and produces a self-contained WordPress theme .zip locally on your machine.
4. Upload the theme to WordPress
In your WordPress admin, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, select the .zip from Themify, install it, and activate it. The converted Squarespace page is now live on WordPress.
What gets preserved during the conversion
- Full page layout and section structure
- All CSS, including Squarespace's custom styles and media queries
- Images, SVGs, icons, and favicons
- Web fonts and typography settings
- Animations, hover effects, and scroll-driven interactions
- Responsive breakpoints for mobile, tablet, and desktop
When this approach is the right fit
Converting Squarespace to WordPress with Themify is ideal when you already like the design and want to keep it while moving to the WordPress ecosystem. It is the fastest option for agencies handing off sites, founders migrating a landing page, and anyone who wants to avoid a full redesign.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I export a Squarespace site to WordPress automatically?
- Squarespace does not export a ready-to-use WordPress theme. The fastest path is to open the published Squarespace URL in Chrome, run Themify, and convert the rendered page into an installable WordPress theme .zip.
- What happens to my Squarespace layout and styles?
- Themify captures the fully rendered page — HTML, CSS, images, fonts, and animations — so the resulting WordPress theme matches what Squarespace displays in the browser.
- Do I need to move content manually from Squarespace?
- No. Because Themify captures the rendered page as a complete WordPress theme, the content, layout, and styling are preserved in the output. You can then manage the site through WordPress like any other theme.