Weebly is shutting down in 67 countries
Square is closing Weebly across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. What happens on each date, whether you're affected, and how to get out with your content and your domain intact.
Quick answer
Yes — in 67 countries. Square announced in June 2026 that Weebly is closing across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Three dates matter: publishing new pages stopped on 29 June 2026, your site stops serving visitors on 27 September 2026, and your account and everything in it is deleted on 26 December 2026. In the US, UK, Canada, Australia and most of Western Europe Weebly keeps running, though it has had no new features for over a year. Check the notice in your own Weebly dashboard to confirm which applies to you.
The three dates that matter
| Date | What happens | What you can still do |
|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2026 | Publishing is switched off | Your live site still works, but you can no longer push changes |
| 27 September 2026 | Your site stops serving visitors | Log in, export content, move your domain |
| 26 December 2026 | Account and content permanently deleted | Nothing — after this the content is gone |
Step-by-step
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Confirm whether your country is affected
The closure covers 67 countries — Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Chile, Peru and more. India, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Africa are not on the list. The account is what counts, not where you happen to be sitting: if you registered in an affected country, you're affected. The definitive answer is the banner in your own Weebly dashboard.
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Export your content while you still can
Weebly's own export gives you a static HTML archive. Treat it as a backup rather than something you can import somewhere else — no other builder reads Weebly's format. Do it now anyway: after 27 September getting anything out becomes far harder, and after 26 December it is gone.
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Save the things the export misses
Copy your page text into a document. Download your images at full size. Screenshot your layout so you remember the structure. Write down your form submissions, any blog posts you care about, and the list of pages with their URLs — you'll want that last one for redirects.
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Move your custom domain before the account closes
If you bought your domain through Weebly, it lives in that account, and the account disappears on 26 December 2026. Unlock it, get the transfer authorisation code, and move it to a registrar you control — Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun all cost a few dollars a year. Do this before September if you can; transfers need an active account on both ends.
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Rebuild somewhere that isn't winding down
Square will point you at Square Online. That is a reasonable landing spot if your site is a store running on Square payments, and a poor one if it isn't — it's built around commerce, not around a service business. Whatever you choose, check it is actively developed. Weebly's problem wasn't the shutdown; it was the two quiet years before it.
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Point your old links at the new site
Your Weebly URLs will 404 once the site goes dark. Update your Google Business Profile, your social bios, your email signature and any directory listings. If you kept your domain, pointing it at the new site preserves most of your search rankings; if you were on a free weebly.com subdomain, you are starting the domain over.
Tips & best practices
- ▸Do the domain transfer first — it has the hardest deadline and the worst failure mode.
- ▸Screenshot every page before 27 September. Once the site is dark you cannot see what you had.
- ▸If you were on a free weebly.com address, buy a real domain this time. It is the difference between owning your address and renting it.
- ▸Rebuilding is a good moment to fix what never worked: most Weebly sites from the 2010s have no mobile layout worth the name.
Common questions
Is Weebly shutting down everywhere?
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No. The closure covers 67 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In the US, UK, Canada, Australia and most of Western Europe Weebly continues to run — but in maintenance mode, with no new features for more than a year and no new themes for longer. If you're in one of those markets you are not on a deadline, though you are on a platform its owner has stopped investing in.
What happens to my Weebly site on 27 September 2026?
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It stops serving visitors. Anyone who follows a link to it gets nothing. Your content still exists inside your account between 27 September and 26 December, so you can still log in and retrieve it, but the public site is gone.
Will I lose my domain name?
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Only if you leave it. Domains bought through Weebly are held in that account, and the account is deleted on 26 December 2026. Transfer it to an independent registrar before then and it is yours permanently — the domain and the builder are separate things, and it's worth keeping them that way from now on.
Can I move my Weebly site to another builder automatically?
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Not really. Weebly's export is a static HTML archive, and no mainstream builder imports it. Anyone promising a one-click Weebly migration is either rebuilding it by hand or dumping raw HTML into a page. In practice you are rebuilding — which is why it's worth choosing something that does most of that work for you.
How long do I have?
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Publishing already stopped on 29 June 2026. The site goes dark on 27 September 2026 and the account is deleted on 26 December 2026. The domain transfer is the one with real consequences, so treat September as your deadline rather than December.
Why is Square doing this?
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Square has not given a detailed reason beyond narrowing where it operates. Weebly has been effectively frozen since Square acquired it — no meaningful features, no new themes — and Square's own answer for merchants is Square Online. Reading it as a tidy-up of markets Square no longer wants to support is consistent with what it did to the product before the announcement.