Is Weebly shutting down? Should I move my website off it?

If an email told you Weebly is shutting down, read who sent it. The one a client of mine forwarded me came from a company selling Weebly migrations. Two different things are easy to confuse: Weebly closing in some countries, and Weebly closing everywhere. Only the first is happening.

What Weebly actually announced

On 22 June 2026, Weebly posted a support notice saying it would “wind down Weebly services in 67 countries,” citing “changes in regulation” and a wish “to simplify our global operations.” The wind-down was set to finish by 20 September. For customers in those countries, the notice sets three dates that matter:

• 29 June 2026: no new pages could be published.
• 27 September 2026: sites were unpublished.
• 26 December 2026: account login ends. After that you can’t get your content or your domain out through Weebly.

The list runs from Taiwan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates to Colombia, Turkey, Kenya, Ukraine and Russia. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia aren’t on it. Weebly has been part of Square since 2018, and nothing in this notice changes service for customers outside those 67 countries.

If your country is on the list

The site is already offline, so what’s left is getting your content and domain out before 26 December 2026.

1. Download your data. Weebly’s notice points to Account Settings, then My Data, then Download My Data. For a single site, use Website, then Edit Site, then Settings, then Archive. Do this first. Everything else depends on having a copy.
2. Transfer your domain. From the Weebly dashboard, go to Websites, then Domains, then Manage, then Manage Domain. Turn off the registrar lock to get the transfer code (often called an EPP code), then start the transfer at your new registrar. Two rules catch people out: a domain can’t be transferred within 60 days of registration, and changing the domain’s contact details starts a 60-day lock. Leave the contact details alone until the transfer is done. Turning off the lock also turns off Whois privacy, so set privacy up again at the new registrar. And if your domain is a country-code domain, like .sg or .co, Weebly says those transfers work differently, so contact its support before you start.
3. Rebuild the site somewhere else from the export. The export is a copy of your content and pages. Anything that ran on Weebly’s own servers, like forms, a store checkout or members’ areas, won’t work until it’s rebuilt on the new host.

If you use Google Workspace email through Weebly, the notice asks you to contact Weebly support so the account can move directly to Google. Sort that out before you touch the domain, because email that stops arriving is harder to notice than a website that’s down.

If you’re in the US, should you move anyway?

There’s no deadline, which is the best time to move a site. A Weebly site in the US is still working, so nothing forces your hand this month. The question is whether you want to depend on a platform whose owner is shrinking it country by country.

Move when the site is part of how you make money. If customers call or inquire from it, if you run ads to it, or if its old pages still bring in search traffic, a forced move on someone else’s 90-day notice is the worst way to do it. Doing it now, on your schedule, means you get to do it properly.

Stay a while longer when the site is a brochure. If it’s five pages, nobody finds you through it, and you don’t run ads, the risk of waiting is small. Export a copy of your data once so you have one, and revisit it next year.

Move soon either way if the site is holding you back. If you can’t add the pages you need, can’t install the tracking your ads depend on, or it’s slow on a phone, the Weebly news is just a good reason to fix what was already broken.

What a one-click import doesn’t do

The migration pitch my client received led with an automatic import that brings your pages, posts and images across. That’s useful for the content. It isn’t the hard part of a move.

The hard part is the addresses. Every page on your old site has a URL that search engines, AI assistants, old emails and your own ads point to. If an import keeps every one of those URLs exactly as it was, there’s nothing to redirect. Most moves don’t: Weebly’s addresses often end in .html, and a rebuild usually merges or renames pages. On the site in the example below, 78 of the 113 old addresses needed a permanent redirect. When a URL changes and nothing redirects it, the visitors it used to bring land on an error page, and the search history behind it goes with it. Someone has to decide, page by page, where each old address should now go.

How I move a site off Weebly

The order matters more than the platform you move to.

1. Crawl the old site before building anything. Every URL, every image, every page title, saved, so nothing gets forgotten.
2. Make a redirect map. One row per old address: keep it, send it to its new page with a permanent redirect, or retire it on purpose. No address is left to chance.
3. Check the addresses that actually get traffic. Search Console shows which old URLs have earned impressions. Test every one of them against the new site after launch, not just the ones in the map.
4. Move only the website records. When the domain points at the new site, leave the email records alone. A website can be rolled back in minutes. Mail that stops arriving can cost you a customer before you notice.
5. Move the ads the same night. If you run Google Ads, every ad and sitelink that points at an old page should point at its new page the night the site goes live.

On Robert Russell Designs, a furniture maker in Illinois who moved off Weebly after the wind-down was announced, the redirect map ended at 113 rows once the Search Console check had added the addresses it turned up after launch. Of those 113, 112 reach a live page in one redirect or fewer. The one that doesn’t was a broken video link, removed on purpose. His 22 ads and 39 sitelinks moved onto the new pages the same night.

Before you sign up for anything

Ask whoever is moving your site one question: what happens to each of my old URLs? If the answer is a redirect map you can read, row by row, they’re doing the part that protects your traffic. If the answer is “the import handles it,” it doesn’t.

When to bring me in

Bring me in when your site is on Weebly and it's how customers find you: when calls or inquiries come through it, when you run ads to it, or when old pages still bring in search traffic. I'll inventory every address before anything moves, so the move keeps what the old site already earned.

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