Is Weebly Shutting Down? What to Do Before December 26

Weebly is shutting down only in 67 countries: sites there went offline on September 27, 2026, and their owners can log in to export them until December 26, 2026. Everywhere else, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia and India, Weebly keeps running.

If your country is on the list, download each site's archive and move your domain before December 26; getting the archive back online can come after. If it isn't, nothing changes, though a fresh backup is worth doing this week.

Checked October 31, 2026, against Weebly's notice and help center.

What's happening to Weebly, and when

Weebly, owned by Square since 2018, announced in June 2026 that it would "wind down Weebly services in 67 countries", citing "changes in regulation" and a wish "to simplify our global operations". The dates, from Weebly's notice:

Weebly's wind-down in the 67 countries, checked October 31, 2026

The notice gives access "until 2026-12-26" with no time zone, so treat December 25 as the real deadline.

Bought Weebly through a web host? Read its notice. Ultra Web Hosting tells customers in the 67 countries that "the same January 2, 2027 deadline applies to your site", and Network Solutions keeps December 26 for logins but says Weebly "will no longer be available in these countries after January 2, 2027". January 2, 2027 isn't in Weebly's public notice (Ultra cites Weebly's notice to resellers, and for Ultra's customers it's the day their sites are unpublished), so if in doubt, work to December 26.

Which 67 countries are affected?

By region, from Weebly's notice:

• Asia and the Pacific (17): Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Palau.
• Middle East (6): Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.
• Africa (20): Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Europe and the Caucasus (13): Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine.
• Latin America and the Caribbean (11): Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay.

Weebly doesn't say which Congo, so owners in either should treat themselves as affected. Not on the list: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, Japan and every EU member state; Iceland and Andorra are the only entries from Western or Northern Europe.

The notice speaks to "customers in these countries" without defining it; Network Solutions, a reseller, says "the country where your website is published". If your account, billing and site sit in different countries, ask Weebly support, and download the archive anyway.

Is Weebly shutting down in the US?

No. The US isn't on the list, and neither are the UK, Canada or Australia: Weebly is closing in 67 countries, not going away everywhere. In an earlier support update, quoted by Khaleej Times in July 2026, Square said it "has no plans to discontinue the Weebly website builder". That's an older line, not a promise, but the 2026 notice names only the 67 countries; forum posts claiming a US shutdown aren't backed by it.

Still, a site that lives only inside a builder is one business decision away from a bad week, so download an archive now and after big edits, and keep copies of your blog posts, which the archive leaves out.

How to export your Weebly site

To export a Weebly site, open the site editor, go to Settings > General > Archive, enter your email and click Email Archive; Weebly emails you a link to a .zip of that site. The rest of the export, from the notice and Weebly's Back Up Your Site page:

1. Every site. Repeat the archive for each site in the account.
2. Account data. Account Settings > My Data > Download My Data. Weebly only says it holds "your site content and data", so keep it as a second copy, not a replacement for the archive.
3. Store products and orders. Both export to spreadsheets: see Weebly's product export guide and its "Export Orders" help article. That's data for a rebuild, not a working store.
4. Form entries. Weebly says form data is "stored on your site's dashboard" and "You can export this data to a spreadsheet"; look for Form Entries under the site in your dashboard.

The help page adds that the .zip can't be imported back into Weebly; it's a backup, or a way "to recreate the site at another host".

What the archive keeps, and what it leaves behind

Weebly is refreshingly plain about it: "Blog and store pages aren't included in the export as they rely directly on our database", and the Contact Form and Slideshow elements "may not work correctly outside of the Weebly editor".

What's in a Weebly site archive, checked October 31, 2026

Blog posts are the slow part:

• Look before you copy. Check whether your Download My Data file holds the post text. No source says either way; it could save days.
• Copy the rest from the editor: title, date, text and images, post by post. A few hundred posts is days of work, so start with the most-read.
• Use the live site if it's still up. Sites bought directly from Weebly in the 67 countries have been offline since September 27, but if your host gives a later date, save the posts from the browser now, or try an importer (below).
• Write down the addresses. An old post address only works again if the post is recreated at that same address, so if search traffic matters, list them now from a site:yourdomain.com search or web.archive.org.

Move your domain before December 26

Registered your domain elsewhere? There's nothing to transfer; point its DNS at the new host once the site is up. Bought it through Weebly? Transfer it out, following the notice:

1. In your Weebly dashboard, go to Websites > Domains, then Manage > Manage Domain on the domain.
2. Turn off the Registrar Lock toggle. That reveals the EPP authorization code; copy all of it.
3. Start the transfer at your new registrar and give it the code.

Four catches:

• Email on the domain. Copy its DNS records (MX and TXT at least) first and recreate them at the new registrar; Square's community forum reports transfers stuck for days and email going down meanwhile.
• Contact details. Editing the registrant name, email or phone sets a 60-day lock under ICANN rules. Transfer first, tidy up later.
• Privacy. Turning off the lock also turns off Whois privacy; set it up again at the new registrar.
• Country-code domains (.co.uk, .de and the like) transfer differently; Weebly asks you to contact support, as it does for Google Workspace bought through Weebly.

Keeping the domain at Weebly and pointing it elsewhere, which the notice also mentions, is a gamble in the 67 countries: after December 26 you can't log in to change or renew it, and Weebly hasn't said what happens to the registration. Transfer it, and not the week before Christmas.

Put the archived site back online (and check your page addresses)

If you've been around long enough, you'll remember when backing up a website meant pulling a folder down over FTP; the Weebly archive is that folder, delivered by email. For a brochure site (pages, photos, opening hours), it should be most of a working static website, but Weebly doesn't document its layout, so check it first. No terminal needed:

1. Find the home page. Extract the zip (how to unzip a file on a Mac) and look for index.html, at the top level or inside a single top-level folder; if it's buried deeper, move the files up. Remove anything never meant to be public.
2. Preview it with Wi-Fi off. Open index.html in your browser. A missing font, image or script was fetched from elsewhere, likely Weebly's servers, and nobody has said how long those will answer. If nothing is styled, the links probably start with a slash, which a double-click can't follow; with Python installed, run python3 -m http.server 8000 (Mac) or py -m http.server 8000 (Windows) in the folder and open http://localhost:8000.
3. Bring the stragglers home. Open the folder in a free code editor (VS Code, say) and search all files for weebly.com and editmysite.com. While you're online, download each file those hits point to into the site's folder, and point the page at the local copy.
4. Match file names to your old addresses. Weebly addresses usually end in .html, like /about.html, and the archive probably uses the same names, but nobody documents it. Compare the file list with the addresses people use (your emails, a site:yourdomain.com search, web.archive.org). Where one differs (old address /about-us.html, file about.html), rename the file to the old name and fix the menu links with the editor's find-and-replace across all files.
5. Zip it again when it passes.

Optional, on a Mac or Linux: this lists every outside address the pages use, including ones you didn't think to search for:

grep -rhoIE "https?://[^/\"' ]+" . | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

If the whole site is one page, skip the zip: a single HTML file can go online on its own.

Keep it online on Hostsmith

Disclosure first: Hostsmith is our product, so read this section with that in mind.

Hostsmith serves static files as they are, which is all a checked Weebly archive needs. Upload the zip in the Hostsmith dashboard (here's how the zipped upload works) and the site goes live at your-site.us.hostsmith.link. It answers both /about.html and /about from about.html, so pages whose file names match keep their old paths. A later fix is another upload to the same site, replacing the files at the same address.

The plan comes down to two questions. How big is the zip? Free gives one site 5 MB, also the largest single file, with Hostsmith branding: enough for a text-light site; photo-heavy ones need Starter's 50 MB ($5 a month billed yearly, $9 monthly) or Pro's 500 MB. Must it stay on your own domain? Then it's Pro, $15 a month billed yearly ($21 monthly), the first plan with custom domains, which keeps your domain in every address; it also holds five sites to the others' one. Prices as of October 2026 (pricing).

What it won't do: process your contact form, give you a blog editor (you edit the HTML and upload again) or run a shop. It's a host, not a builder.

Weebly alternatives: where else to move your site

For a blog you'll keep editing, WordPress; for a visual editor again, Wix or Squarespace; for a brochure site, the archive on a static host.

Where to move a Weebly site, checked October 31, 2026

On Square Online: the notice points affected owners to "another website provider", and Square's developer docs list payment processing only in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Australia and Japan, so we wouldn't plan a move around it in the 67. The same goes for every option: check that a platform takes payment from your country before you rebuild, since not every payment provider serves all of Weebly's list.

Articulation and Site.pro advertise importers that read a Weebly site into their own editors. We haven't tested them, and Articulation itself warns that an offline site "becomes much harder" to import, so they're mainly for sites that are still up.

Your December 26 checklist

1. Check your country, and your host's notice if you bought Weebly through one.
2. Download each site's archive and your account data by December 25.
3. Export store products, orders and form entries.
4. Save your blog posts and write down their addresses.
5. Check the archive: offline preview, Weebly leftovers, file names.
6. Copy your email's DNS records, then unlock the domain and start the transfer.
7. Host the archive, point the domain at it and click through every page.
8. Only then, if you want your data gone, use Erase Data and Forget Me under My Data.

Frequently asked questions

Does Weebly still exist?

Yes. Weebly shut down only in the 67 countries. In an earlier support update, quoted by Khaleej Times in July 2026, Square said it "has no plans to discontinue the Weebly website builder".

How do I move from Weebly to WordPress?

By rebuilding: pick a theme, recreate the pages, paste in the text and upload the images; the blog posts you copied out become WordPress posts. WordPress also needs its own hosting.

Which is better, Wix or Weebly?

Here, the exit matters most: Weebly hands you a site archive, while Wix has no code export, so leaving Wix means rebuilding by hand, which is also how you move from Weebly to Wix.

Can I get a Weebly refund?

Weebly's notice says nothing about refunds for prepaid plans or domains. Ask Square support, and move your domain meanwhile.

The cheapest Weebly migration is the one that changes nothing a visitor can see: the same pages at the same addresses, with a different company keeping the lights on. The blog rebuild and the redesign can wait until the site is safe. Once the archive passes its checks, drop the zip on hostsmith.net, sign in, and you'll have a live copy to click through before the domain moves.