Complete guide to migrating your Weebly website to Jekyll. Leave Weebly's being sunset in favor of square online behind and get native github pages integration. Free migration tool included.
You can migrate from Weebly 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.
Simple website builder now owned by Square. Small businesses needing the simplest possible web presence, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Being sunset in favor of Square Online — limited future
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Weebly. Jekyll eliminates this issue entirely.
Very limited customization options beyond templates
With Jekyll, native github pages integration — deploy by pushing to a repo.
Poor SEO capabilities compared to other builders
Modern architectures like Jekyll are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
No content export or migration tools available
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 | Weebly | Jekyll |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐ 1/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Cost | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐ 1/5 | ⭐⭐ 2/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐ 1/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Language | Proprietary | Ruby (Liquid templates) |
| Pricing | Free / $10-26/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 Weebly content maps to Jekyll
What may need manual attention
Visual layouts and custom animations built in Weebly'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 Weebly 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 Weebly to Jekyll makes the most sense if you're experiencing being sunset in favor of square online — limited future or outgrowing Weebly's architecture. Jekyll is best for developer blogs hosted on github pages with minimal setup.
You should migrate if: your Weebly 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 Weebly site benefits from extremely simple to use — anyone can build a basic site and you don't have Ruby developers on your team. Weebly is genuinely easy to use, and that simplicity has value.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Weebly 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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