Squarespace to Wordpress

Prepare yourself that some things look strange after you have done the import.

The right way to switch from Squarespace to WordPress

Would you like to move your Squarespace website to WordPress? A lot of people launch their sites on different plattforms. Eventually, they explore the limits of the site and want to move to a better and more agile alternative like WordPress. We will show you in this tutorial how to switch correctly from Squarespace to WordPress.

The Squarespace provides an easy-to-use website creation and creation tool. WorldPress is more open press, and you can do anything you want with your website. Have a look at our Squarespace vs WordPress articles for a detailled compare of the two plattforms. Notice also that when we say WordPress, we mean self-hosted WordPress. org site and not WordPress. com web site web hosting servic.

See our WordPress.org and WordPress.com Differences User Manual for more information. Square Space hosted your sites on their own server. When you switch to WordPress, you need to have your own website hosted. The first thing you will need is to find a WordPress Hosting Companies.

Bluehost is recommended as they are the WordPress Hosted partners. When your Squarespace site has its own domainname, you can also move this domainname to your new webhost. Both during and after the transfers, you can connect to your Squarespace website because it uses the built-in Squarespace sub-directory.

The next stage after logging in to a webhost is the setup of WordPress. WordPress is the most widely used CMS in the word, known for its renowned 5-minute setup. The most WordPress hosters like Bluehost, Siteground, Hostgator, etc. provide fast 1-click WordPress installer. Have a look at our WordPress introductory setup guide for more information.

Once you have installed WordPress on your new web hosting, the next stage is to extract your contents from Squarespace. The Squarespace provides restricted exporting capabilities. A part of it will be extracted according to the contents you have on your website. Most of the remaining contents will stay on your Squarespace integrated domains and you will have to copy and past them later.

This is the contents to choose to export. Your base pages will be converted to WordPress pages. Contents below will not be extracted. Knowing how restrictive SquareSpace is, let's just let us take the contents and let's make a clean slate with WordPress where you have full liberty.

Log in to your Squarespaceccount and go to Settings " Advanced " Import/Export/Settings. Click the Import icon to proceed. Now Squarespace shows you a dialog box with the WordPress emblem. Currently Squarespace only sends contents in a WordPress -only compatible file type. To start the exporting procedure, click on the WordPress icon.

See the status of the exported data on the right under the pushbuttons for the imported data. As soon as the exporting is complete, you will see a pushbutton to start downloading your exported files. Please dowload the exported data to your computer. You' ll need it in the next stage when you are importing contents into your new WordPress page.

Next you have to download the contents from Squarespace and paste them into your WordPress page. Log in to your WordPress administration area and go to Tools " Tools " Input page. It does not list Squarespace because Squarespace will export contents to a WordPress-compatible HTML document type, which means that you must click WordPress to proceed.

Click on the'Activate plug-in & run importer' hyperlink. In the next window, click the Pick a Files icon and then click the Squarespace exported filename you previously loaded.

Then click Download Files and Imports to proceed. Now WordPress will check and check your Squarespace exporting files. When everything is in order, the page with the current imports will be displayed. Here you select an autor name for the contents you want to use. WorldPress can also bring in the Squarespace users and include them as subscribers on your WordPress page.

You have an additional possibility to create plant mimics. Guess Squarespace doesn't want us to go, so they're making it difficult for us. When you click the Send icon, WordPress starts the process of exporting contents from your Squarespace exports for you. Now you can browse the pages and articles in WordPress to check the contents you have uploaded.

Unfortunately, the WordPress distributor cannot handle importing pictures from your Squarespace website. Manual imports are required. First, you have to download and enable the plug-in External Image in WordPress. Please read our step-by-step instructions for installing a WordPress plug-in for more information.

After activating the plug-in, you must go to the Media " Imported Image page to run the plug-in. You can find detailled information in our manual for importing extern pictures into WordPress. Please make sure that you don't miss any visitors who come through the link from your old Squarespace website.

WorldPress uses an SEO-friendly layout that allows you to modify the links in many ways. Our aim is to adapt our links to your Squarespace website. The Squarespace uses year/month/day/post name as a linking form for blogs. For example, a standard post-URL with the default built-in Squarespace domainname might look like this:

When you have used your own domainname with Squarespace, a normal blogs posting URL may look like this: From the WordPress administration area, you must go to the Preferences " Permanent Links page. Your nearest matches to your old square placeURL are ''tag and name''. Â This will ensure that visitors to your site from web sites run by popular web analysts and other resources are directed to review articles and pages on the new WordPress site.

It is still possible that some of your hyperlinks may lead to 404 WordPress bugs. This is how to follow 404 pages and forward them in WordPress. The Squarespace allows you to limit the amount of contents you can extract. When you have used their eCommerce functions, event or hosted audiovisual clips, you will need to copy all of them to your WordPress page by hand.

It may take some getting through the whole thing, according to how much you have. You need a WordPress eCommerce plug-in for your product, e.g. WooCommerce. If you have your own movie file, we suggest that you choose to have it hosted by third parties such as YouTube and Vimeo. Read our guidelines on why you should never add your WordPress page to your WordPress file.

Please read these instructions for more information: WorldPress is a high-performance plattform with unbelievable versatility. You' ll find tons of free, high-quality, professionally crafted WordPress topics to use on your website. Read our guidelines on how to choose the WordPress topic that's right for your website. WordPress's true strength lies in its thousand of plug-ins.

This plugin extends your WordPress page with additional functions. Also you can see our WordPress plugin lists for WordPress web sites. You can also connect WordPress to an extremely useful worldwide WordPress user group. In the WordPress supportforums you can ask for help. Hopefully this post has assisted you in switching from Squarespace to WordPress.

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