Weebly Sites Go Offline Sept 27: What You Can Still Recover
Yes, some of it — if you move before December 26, 2026. Weebly is unpublishing sites in the 67 affected countries on September 27, 2026, but per Weebly's own shutdown notice, you keep login access to your account until December 26, "to enable you to move your site, domains, and data to another service." That means the editor, the site archive, the account-wide data export, and your domain settings all stay reachable through that date — whether your public site is still up or already offline. This is the recovery checklist for the window you have.
Is my site deleted, or just unpublished?
Just unpublished — not deleted. Weebly's notice draws a clear line between the public site going dark on September 27 and account access, which it says continues "until 2026-12-26." If your site is already offline, that's the state you're in: visitors get nothing at your old URL, but your content, your domain settings, and your blog and store data (inside the account, not the public pages) are still sitting there. The date that actually matters here isn't September 27. It's December 26.
What can I still recover, and by when?
Everything below is reachable only while you're logged in. Once a site is unpublished the public URL won't load, so don't rely on it to check anything — work from inside the account instead.
| What | Still recoverable? | How | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain (bought through Weebly) | Yes | Dashboard → Websites → Domains → Manage → unlock Registrar Lock → get EPP code → transfer | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Domain (bought elsewhere) | Yes, no rush | Point DNS at your new site whenever it's ready | No Weebly deadline |
| Regular pages (design, copy, images) | Yes | Site editor → Settings → General → Archive → Email Archive (ZIP) | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Full account data | Yes | Account Settings → My Data → Download My Data | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Blog post text | Partial | Not in either export per Weebly (below); check the Download My Data file first, then pull what's missing from the blog manager in the editor while logged in | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Store items | Yes | Items → Site Items → "…" → Export (CSV) | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Form entries | Likely, path not fully documented by Weebly | Website → Overview → Form Entries → Export | Before Dec 26, 2026 |
| Everything | No | — | After Dec 26, 2026, per Weebly's notice you lose login access |
Two things worth being precise about. First, the site archive and blog/store data are excluded from each other for the same reason they always were: Weebly's Back Up Your Site page says blog and store pages "rely directly on our database" and aren't in the ZIP — that doesn't change whether your site is still live or already dark. Second, we could not find a Weebly help page that spells out the Form Entries export path; it comes from discussion in Square's own community forum for Weebly customers, so confirm the exact menu once you're logged in.
If you haven't run any of this yet, start with the full export walkthrough — it covers the account data export, the archive, the CSV export, and the domain transfer in order, and every step in it is available to you now and stays available up to December 26.
Can you upload a Weebly archive ZIP to another host?
Partly. Weebly's own Back Up Your Site page says the archive "can't be imported back into Weebly," and that you can "save it as an offline backup of your website for safe-keeping or to recreate the site at another host" — so yes, that's an intended use, not a workaround. But "recreate" undersells the manual work involved. Here's what's actually in it:
| Piece | Works if you upload it as-is | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Regular page HTML/CSS | Mostly | Static files; a competent host will serve them |
| Images on regular pages | Yes | Included in the ZIP |
| Contact Form / Slideshow elements | No | Weebly says these "may not work correctly outside of the Weebly editor" — expect to rebuild them with your new host's own form tool |
| Blog pages | Not included | The archive skips them entirely; see the blog export guide |
| Store pages, items, orders | Not included | Excluded for the same database reason as the blog; use the CSV export above |
| Comments | Not included, not published anywhere | Screenshot the threads if you want to keep them |
So treat the ZIP as a content source and a design reference, not a working site. Open it locally first — five minutes, before you commit to any host — to see which regular pages carried over cleanly and which elements need a rebuild.
What happens after December 26, 2026?
Login access ends. That's the one thing Weebly's notice states outright: after that date "you will no longer have login access to your Weebly account." What happens to an unrecovered domain or an unrecovered blog after that point is not published anywhere we could find, from Weebly or from Square — don't assume there's a grace period, because nothing says there is one.
Where should I rebuild?
Not into another closed editor that can do this to you again. With Figment, your site is a Figma file you own — free to design in, portable, not dependent on a platform's roadmap. Our plugin publishes it; the design file stays yours either way. The step-by-step move covers taking your saved copy and images from the checklist above into a Figma layout, publishing, and repointing your domain once it's out of Weebly. If you want the wider comparison first, the Weebly alternatives roundup covers Square Online, Squarespace, Wix, and WordPress too.
The recovery checklist
- Confirm you're still able to log in (do this today — it's the one thing you can't work around)
- Request Download My Data (Account Settings → My Data)
- Request the site archive (Settings → General → Archive) and open it locally to check what's usable
- Pull any blog text not in the data export from the blog manager in the editor
- Export store items (Items → Site Items → "…" → Export) if applicable
- Export form entries (Website → Overview → Form Entries) if applicable
- Check where your domain is registered; if it's through Weebly, unlock it and get the EPP code
- Transfer the domain, or set it to point at your new site
- Finish everything above before December 26, 2026
Not sure where to start once you've got everything out? Tell us what you've got and we'll walk you through rebuilding, whether or not you end up using Figment. Questions about the country list or the domain deadline specifically are answered in the original export walkthrough and the domain guide.
