Weebly Is Shutting Down in Singapore: What It Means for You

Weebly, the website builder, is winding down in Singapore.

If your business website was built on Weebly, it will not stay online. Your domain and your email are separate, and usually safe. Here is what changes, and what to save before the account closes.

What is happening, and when

Weebly is closing in three steps, during 2026.

After 26 December, the account and everything in it are gone. Weebly’s official notice has the details, and lists every country affected.

Is your website on Weebly?

If someone else built your website, you may not know. On a computer, open your website, right-click an empty part of the page and choose View Page Source. A page of code opens. Search it, with Ctrl+F or Cmd+F on a Mac, for “editmysite” or “weebly”. If either appears, your website runs on Weebly.

If the website has already gone offline, search your email for Weebly instead. A receipt or a renewal notice will tell you, and will show which email address holds the account.

What you lose, and what you keep

A website, a domain and an email address are easy to think of as one thing. They are separate, and Weebly’s closure takes only the first.

Your domain usually stays. The domain is your address on the internet, the part that reads yourbusiness.com.sg. If you bought it from a company such as GoDaddy, Vodien or Exabytes, it is registered there, not at Weebly, and it carries on as before.

Your email usually stays too. Email at your own address is set up through the domain, not the website. If it was set up with another company, your inbox carries on when the website goes.

The website goes. Every page, and everything that works on those pages: the contact and enquiry forms, the online store, and the blog.

If you bought your domain through Weebly, it needs moving to another company before 26 December. The difference between a domain, hosting and email is set out in website costs explained.

What to do before 26 December

Weebly offers two downloads. Neither is a complete backup, so it helps to know what each one leaves out.

1. Find the login. If a freelancer or a former employee built your website, the Weebly account may be in their name, or tied to an inbox nobody reads. Everything below needs it.
2. Download the site archive. In the site editor, go to Settings, then General, then Archive. It gives you copies of your pages as plain web files. It usually leaves out your individual blog posts, and the forms in it no longer work.
3. Save your blog posts separately. Because the archive usually leaves them out, copy each post’s words and pictures, or ask whoever is moving your website to. While the website is online, the live pages are the easiest place to copy them from. After that, they are still in your account until 26 December.
4. Use Download My Data. It is in Account Settings, under My Data. This is your account’s information rather than a working website: worth keeping, but not something you can put back online.
5. Export your store. If you sell through Weebly, your products, orders and customer records need exporting on their own. Don’t assume either download has them.
6. Check where your domain is registered. If it is with another company, it stays there. If you bought it through Weebly, transfer it out, following the steps in Weebly’s notice. Don’t change the domain’s contact details before the transfer: Weebly warns this locks the domain for 60 days.
7. Check where your email comes from. If you bought Google Workspace through Weebly, Weebly asks you to contact its support team to move it to Google.

If your website has already gone offline, none of this is lost. Your account, and everything in it, stays until 26 December. The steps are the same.

Where to go next

There are two decisions here, and they are separate: how much of the website to change, and where it should live.

Move it as it is, or start again

A like-for-like move copies the website you have to somewhere new, as it is, with its forms working again. It is the quicker option, and the right one if the website was doing its job.

A redesign uses the move to fix what wasn’t working. It takes longer. It is worth it when the website no longer describes the business you run today.

Either way, each old page address can be pointed at its new page, so links people saved and pages Google already knows keep working.

Choosing a Weebly alternative: renting or owning

Some website builders work the way Weebly did. You pay a monthly fee, and the website lives inside their system. It is easy to start and there is little to look after. It also means the website exists only as long as that company keeps offering the service, in your country, on its terms. Moving to another platform like this is renting again.

The alternative is a website in accounts you own. The hosting is in your business’s name and the files are yours. If the hosting company ever closes or changes its terms, you take the website somewhere else. The trade is that someone has to look after it, with updates and backups. That can be you, or someone you pay to do it.

Moving from Weebly to WordPress

WordPress is free software for running a website, and the most common choice for a website you own. In our study of 300 Singapore business websites, 40% ran on it. Installed on hosting in your own name, it lets you edit pages and publish blog posts much as you did on Weebly, and it can move between hosting companies with you.

It is not the only way. A small website that rarely changes can be simpler still: plain pages with no system behind them, and very little to maintain. Which suits you depends on who will make changes, and how often. Our guide to the systems websites are edited with walks through the options in plain terms.

How we can help

We move websites off Weebly into accounts you own. The hosting, the domain and the website are in your business’s name, not ours.

We can move your website as it is, or redesign it as we go. Either way, the blog posts the archive misses come across too, and your old page addresses keep working.

If you would rather do it yourself, the checklist above is the part that can’t wait.

Common questions

Your website, in your own name

Send us your website’s address through the enquiry form. We will look at what it has and tell you plainly what moving it involves.