Complete guide to migrating your Squarespace website to Jekyll. Leave Squarespace's walled garden behind and get native github pages integration. Free migration tool included.
You can migrate from Squarespace to Jekyll for free using LeaveWP. Enter your site URL, choose Jekyll as the destination, and download your content — posts, pages, and media — in minutes. No API keys, passwords, or CLI tools required. Difficulty: Easy. Estimated time: 10-20 minutes.
Official docs: Squarespace Developer Docs
All-in-one website builder with designer templates. Non-technical creators who want a polished site without touching code, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Walled garden — no code access or custom server logic
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Squarespace. Jekyll eliminates this issue entirely.
Cannot self-host or export to another platform easily
With Jekyll, native github pages integration — deploy by pushing to a repo.
Limited to Squarespace's template system for design
Modern architectures like Jekyll are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
Monthly costs add up ($192-588/year) for a content site
After migrating, you'll no longer need to worry about this — Jekyll takes a fundamentally different approach.
Ruby-based SSG that powers GitHub Pages. Built with Ruby (Liquid templates), it's developer blogs hosted on github pages with minimal setup.
Native GitHub Pages integration — deploy by pushing to a repo
Mature and battle-tested for blogs and documentation
Large library of themes and plugins
Simple mental model — content in Markdown, layouts in Liquid
Jekyll is open-source and free to use. You own your code and data with no vendor lock-in. Deploy to any host that supports Ruby, or use managed platforms like Vercel and Netlify for zero-config deployments.
Side-by-side comparison based on real platform characteristics
| Metric | Squarespace | Jekyll |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Cost | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐ 2/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Language | Proprietary | Ruby (Liquid templates) |
| Pricing | $16-49/month | Free (open-source) |
| Open Source | No | Yes |
Ratings are based on publicly available data, documentation, and community consensus as of 2026. Individual experience may vary.
A detailed breakdown of how your Squarespace content maps to Jekyll
What may need manual attention
Visual layouts and custom animations built in Squarespace's editor will need to be recreated in Jekyll. The content and text transfers, but the visual design is platform-specific.
Migrate your content in three simple steps
Enter your Squarespace site URL — LeaveWP connects automatically.
Select Jekyll as destination and choose content options.
Download your migrated content or preview it in your browser.
Migrating from Squarespace to Jekyll makes the most sense if you're experiencing walled garden — no code access or custom server logic or outgrowing Squarespace's architecture. Jekyll is best for developer blogs hosted on github pages with minimal setup.
You should migrate if: your Squarespace site is slow, your hosting costs are climbing, you need more control over your code, or you want to adopt a modern JAMstack architecture.
You might want to stay if: your Squarespace site benefits from beautiful, professionally designed templates out of the box and you don't have Ruby developers on your team. Squarespace is genuinely easy to use, and that simplicity has value.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Squarespace URL, select Jekyll, and download your content. The more important question is whether Jekyll's architecture fits your team's skills and your project's long-term needs.
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