Export Weebly Export to HTML

Weebly gives you an export option. It's just not very good.

Go to Settings, then General, then look for Archive or Export. Weebly packages up some of your content, HTML snippets, blog posts in XML format, some images. It's something. But try to host those files and you'll find they don't work as a website.

Here's what Weebly's export actually includes:

Blog posts as an XML file. This contains your post content but none of the styling. Useful if you're moving to a platform that can import blog XML (WordPress can, with plugins).

HTML files for pages. But these are partial, not the complete rendered pages visitors see. Missing styling, missing layout, sometimes missing images.

Some media files. Images you uploaded, maybe PDFs. Not always organized in a usable way.

What's missing? The working website. Your design. The way things actually look when someone visits your site. That's the part Weebly doesn't give you.

Third-party export tools work differently. Instead of extracting Weebly's internal files, they load your site in a browser, exactly like a visitor would, and save what they see. The result is actual working HTML.

Our tool does this. Enter your Weebly URL, we crawl every page, grab images and CSS, package it all in a ZIP. Upload those files to any web server and your site works. Same design, same layout, same content.

The difference matters because:

Weebly's export is a reference archive. You can dig through it to find content, copy text, locate images. But you can't use it as a website.

A proper HTML export is a working backup. Upload it somewhere, point your domain, done. Your site runs independantly of Weebly.

When should you export?

Before canceling Weebly. Once your subscription ends, you lose access. Export first.

Before any major changes. Got a backup in case something breaks.

As an insurance policy. Even if you're happy with Weebly, having a copy of your site somewhere else is smart. Hard drives, cloud storage, wherever.

One thing to understand: dynamic features won't work in any export. Contact forms need a backend. E-commerce needs a database. Membership areas need authentication. Export captures the static content, pages, images, text. Interactive stuff requires separate solutions.

For most Weebly sites, portfolios, small business pages, blogs, static export covers everything that matters. Your visitors see pages. Pages export perfectly.