Move from Wix or Squarespace to WordPress
A professionally rebuilt WordPress site – faster, better optimised and owned by you
You’re not alone. Moving from Wix or Squarespace to WordPress is one of the most common projects we work on.
Most of our clients started where you are now – a Wix or Squarespace site that made sense at the time, but has slowly stopped making sense for the business.
Maybe it never generated much traffic. Maybe it looks dated compared to competitors. Maybe you’ve hit the ceiling of what the platform lets you do and you’re tired of paying monthly fees for a site you don’t fully own or control.
Whatever the reason, moving to WordPress is a decision most small business owners wish they’d made sooner. We make the process as straightforward as possible: we take what you already have, rebuild it properly on WordPress, improve it where we can, and get you onto a platform that will serve your business for years.
We do this all the time. We know exactly what we’re doing – and we’ll make sure nothing important gets lost in the move.
Why small businesses move from Wix or Squarespace to WordPress
The same four reasons come up time and again.
You want to own your website.
On Wix or Squarespace, you’re renting. If the platform changes its terms, raises its prices or shuts down your plan, your website goes with it. On WordPress, the site is yours – the code, the content, the data, all of it.
After your 12-month Webworthy agreement, the site belongs to you outright.
You want to rank better in search.
WordPress gives you full control over every SEO element. Wix and Squarespace do not. A properly built WordPress site will almost always outperform an equivalent Wix or Squarespace site in search – and the gap tends to widen over time.
Every Webworthy site is built with on-page SEO set up correctly from day one.
You want a faster site.
Wix and Squarespace sites carry a lot of platform overhead that slows them down. WordPress, built properly on good hosting, loads faster – and page speed is a direct ranking signal for Google as well as a significant factor in whether visitors stick around.
We optimise every Webworthy site for speed as part of the build.
You want room to grow.
Wix and Squarespace are built for simplicity – which means they’re also built with limits. Need a booking system, a members’ area, a custom integration or a shop that actually works? WordPress can do all of it without the workarounds.
We build for where your business is now and make sure the platform can keep up as it grows.
What the process of moving looks like.
Your existing Wix or Squarespace site is the starting point, not something we ignore.
We review it carefully before we do anything else.
We go through your current site page by page – looking at your content, your structure, what’s working and what isn’t. We agree what gets carried across, what needs improving and what can be left behind before the build starts. Nothing gets lost without a conversation first.
From there the process follows our standard four stages: discovery, design, build and launch. The design is built around your existing branding and the content we’ve agreed to carry across. The build is done on our own bespoke WordPress theme – fast, clean and hand-built for your business.
Your old Wix or Squarespace site stays live throughout the entire process. We build on a private staging environment and only switch your domain across once you’ve approved the new site in full. There’s no period where your business is offline.
We handle the domain switch and redirects.
One of the things that puts people off moving platforms is the technical side of switching domains and making sure existing URLs don’t break. We handle all of that – including setting up redirects from any old URLs so you don’t lose any search rankings you’ve already built up.
Your Wix or Squarespace subscription can be cancelled once the new site is live. That’s usually a saving in itself.
What we keep, what we improve, what we leave behind.
This is a rebuild, not a like-for-like copy.
That’s the whole point – if we just recreated your Wix site in WordPress, you’d end up with the same problems on a different platform.
What we keep
All the content that’s worth keeping – your page copy, your images, your contact details, your testimonials, your FAQs. If it’s on your current site and it’s doing a job, we carry it across.
We also keep your URLs wherever possible, and set up proper redirects for any that need to change – so your existing search rankings aren’t disrupted.
What we improve
The design gets a proper professional treatment. The page structure gets reviewed and optimised for both visitors and search engines. Mobile performance gets sorted properly. Page speed gets addressed. On-page SEO gets set up correctly throughout.
If your content needs a light edit to read better or convert more effectively, we’ll flag it – and if you want copywriting help, that’s available as an optional extra.
What we leave behind
Anything that wasn’t working: pages that added clutter without adding value, design elements that looked busy rather than professional, functionality that nobody was using. We sense-check all of it before the build starts.
You’ll end up with a leaner, faster, better-optimised site – not just a copy of what you had before on a different platform.
“But I’ve already paid for my Wix subscription.”
We hear this a lot.
It’s a fair point – but staying on a platform that isn’t working for your business in order to get value from a subscription you’ve already paid for is rarely the right call.
Most Wix and Squarespace subscriptions renew annually. If yours is due for renewal soon, now is a good time to make the move – you can cancel before the next payment goes out and the timing often works well with our typical four-week build process.
If you’re mid-subscription, the monthly cost of a Webworthy project at £149 + VAT is often comparable to – or only marginally more than – what you’re already paying for Wix or Squarespace when you factor in their premium plans. And unlike your current subscription, the Webworthy monthly payment is building towards a site you’ll own outright after 12 months.
You’re not throwing money away – you’re redirecting it.
Every month you stay on a platform that isn’t generating enquiries is a month your website isn’t working for your business. The cost of staying put isn’t zero.
If you’d like to talk through the timing and costs, book a call with Dave – there’s no obligation and he’ll give you a straight answer.
Ready to make the move? Let’s have a conversation.
Send me your current Wix or Squarespace URL when you book and I’ll take a look before we speak. We’ll talk through what you have, what you need and whether a Webworthy project is the right fit. No hard sell, no obligation – just a straight conversation about your website.
