Moving from Wix, Squarespace or Jimdo to WordPress.
Website builders let you take some of your site with you, a few only by hand, and none of them the design. Here’s what Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, Jimdo and one.com let you keep, what happens to your domain and your email, and the order that keeps your site and your inbox working.
By the NeuWP team · Updated 14 October 2026 · 7 minute read
the short answer:
your words: yes, often by hand
your photos: yes
the design: made again
your domain: it moves
your email: check first
the old plan: cancel last
first
At a glance
What each builder’s help pages, or reports about it, say you can take.
In short: Squarespace exports the most, Wix and Jimdo the least. Your domain can leave every one of them, and your email needs its settings carried over.
Builder
The site’s pages
Blog posts
Shop products
Redirects to the new site
Wix
No export
No export
A spreadsheet file
While the site is on Wix
Squarespace
A file WordPress imports, with gaps
One blog
A spreadsheet file, no images
While the domain is connected
Weebly
A zip archive
Not described
Not cleanly
Not described
Jimdo
No export
Its feed, by hand
No export tool
Only to its own pages
one.com builder
Copy and paste
Copy and paste
Not described
Not described
“Not described” means we couldn’t find it on the builder’s help pages or in reports about it. Ask them before you plan.
leaving
Wix
The site stays on Wix. What you take is copied out.
1What you can take
Wix says its sites have to run on Wix’s own servers, so there’s no export of the whole site. Blog posts can’t be exported either: Wix lists it as a feature people have asked for. Store products can be exported to a spreadsheet file, up to 5,000 rows per file, though digital products can’t. Your texts and photos you copy from the pages themselves.
2Redirects
Wix’s URL Redirect Manager can send an old page to an address on another site, up to 5,000 redirects per site, and only with your own domain connected. Those redirects live on Wix, so they stop when your domain points somewhere else. The new site has to carry them.
3Your domain and email
A domain bought through Wix can move to another provider with a transfer code. It can’t move within 60 days of being bought or of a change to the owner’s contact details, so leave those alone until you’ve moved. Wix says the email on your domain needs its MX records added again after the transfer, or it stops arriving.
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Squarespace
The friendliest of the five to leave, with gaps.
1What you can take
Squarespace makes a file in WordPress’s own format, and WordPress’s importer reads it. It holds your layout pages, one blog with its posts and comments, text and image blocks, and gallery pages. It leaves out store, portfolio, index and calendar pages, headers and footers, video and product blocks, and the design itself. Squarespace warns that images may not come across with the importer and suggests copying them over by hand. Products export to a spreadsheet file, up to 10,000, without their images.
2Redirects
Squarespace’s URL mappings can send old addresses to another site, about 2,500 lines of them, only from domains connected to the Squarespace site. Like Wix’s, they stop working once the domain moves.
3Your domain and email
A transfer takes up to 15 days. Write down your domain’s settings first: Squarespace says most providers can’t keep them during a transfer, and you can’t change them while it’s under way. If you use Google Workspace for email, update its MX records with the new provider afterward. The transfer doesn’t cancel the Squarespace site, so cancel that separately, at the end.
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Weebly
Worth moving off sooner rather than later.
Weebly, owned by Square, is winding down in 67 countries: sites there were unpublished on 27 September 2026, and accounts close on 26 December 2026. Denmark, Germany and Bulgaria aren’t among them. Elsewhere Weebly is kept running without new features, and new customers are pointed to Square’s own website builder.
A site’s editor can save a zip archive of it under Settings, General, Archive. It holds Weebly’s own code, and its forms, slideshows and store don’t carry over cleanly. Keep it as a copy of your words and pictures. If your domain is registered through Weebly, don’t change the owner’s contact details before moving it: that locks a transfer for 60 days.
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Jimdo
Copy everything out first, email included.
1What you can take
Jimdo says there’s no way to make a backup of a Jimdo Creator site yourself, and that a Creator site’s content can’t even move to Jimdo’s own newer builder. A Creator blog has a feed at /rss/blog/ that a developer can read the posts from. The rest you copy from the pages.
2Redirects
Jimdo Creator has redirects on its Business, Shop and Platinum plans, and you choose a page of your own site as the target. Plan for the new site to carry them.
3Your domain and email
Your domain can move with an AuthCode. Your email doesn’t move with it: Jimdo says you lose access to old messages and contacts once the transfer starts, and email addresses on your domain are deleted for good when you cancel. Save your mail on your own computer first. A cancellation has to arrive at least a month before the next payment, and takes effect at the end of the term.
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one.com
About its website builder. A WordPress site there is covered at the end.
one.com says a site made with its Website Builder can’t even be moved to another domain at one.com, and describes copying and pasting as the way around it. Plan to copy your words and photos out by hand.
A domain moves with an Auth-ID, and one.com says the transfer can take up to ten days once it’s approved. Moving the domain doesn’t end the subscription, and one.com’s terms say data from websites and mail is generally deleted seven days after a subscription ends. Copy everything out before you cancel.
If your one.com site already runs on WordPress, it’s a different story: a WordPress site moves whole, with a migration plugin.
step by step
The order to do it in
So the site and the inbox never go dark.
In short: copy out, build at a temporary address, move the domain, put the email back, check, and cancel the old plan last.
1Copy out what’s yours
Texts, photos at their largest size, blog posts, product lists, the messages people sent through your forms, and your email, if it lives at the builder.
2Write down your domain’s settings
A screenshot of every record, the MX records above all: they decide where your email arrives. Most providers don’t carry them across a transfer.
3Build the new site at a temporary address
Hidden from search engines while it’s being built, so it doesn’t compete with the site you have.
4List the old addresses
Every page’s address, and the new page it should lead to. The builder’s redirects stop when you leave, so the new site has to carry them. Our guide on keeping your Google rankings covers this.
5Move the domain
Point it to the new site, or transfer it to a new provider. Check for the 60-day locks first, and leave the owner’s contact details alone until it’s moved.
6Put the email back
Add the MX records at the new provider, then send yourself a test message from another address.
7Check, then cancel
Open the old addresses, send a message through every form, and wait a few days. Then cancel the old plan, minding its notice period.
our side
How we do it
You don’t need to export anything to start.
We read your current website the way a visitor sees it: the words, photos, colors and menu anyone can open. That’s enough for your free preview, whatever your site is built with, as long as its pages are public. We never log in to your old site, and we never change it.
If you go ahead, a person builds the whole site on WordPress from your current one, every page on the list we agree, with your own words and photos. Your old site stays live until the launch. To move the domain, you invite us to your domain’s settings; we never ask you to type a password into a page of ours. Each old address is pointed to its new page, and your email isn’t touched. The site is yours, and if you ever leave, we hand over a full copy of it.
