Is Weebly Dead?

We’re seeing strong signals that Weebly, one of the most popular website builders in the world, is entering end-of-life stage.

The end-of-life stage for software is right behind the complete shut-down stage. This is a time period during which SaaS software such as Weebly are neglected with zero product updates and little to no support.

This is the territory we find Weebly in today.

A Short Recap of Weebly’s Downfall

Here’s the context of what’s going on:

• In 2016, Weebly Carbon was released. This was the last major update to the Weebly platform.
• In 2018, Weebly was acquired by Square. Since then, Weebly has had zero product updates, no new themes, and major bugs have gone unaddressed. The platform still does not support basic modern features such as SVG image types, and these limitations are causing issues within core website areas such as SEO, rendering Weebly websites far less competitive compared to other platforms.
• In 2020, Weebly effectively shut down their Weebly App Store submissions process, preventing Weebly App Developers from creating new Weebly Apps, or even pushing updates to their apps.
• In 2021, Weebly shut down Weebly Cloud, preventing new re-sellers from integrating the Weebly website builder with their hosting services.
• In 2022, Weebly also shut down the (very popular) Weebly for Educators program. Link: https://www.weebly.com/app/help/us/en/topics/important-weebly-for-education-update
• In 2023, Weebly updated their help documentation to state that “Square will continue to support the Weebly website builder until July 2025” and “At this time, we can only commit to supporting the Weebly editor until July 2025.”

Officially, what happens after July 2025 is unknown. However, most of the community agrees that the platform is on its way out.

Community Reports

On social media forums such as the Weebly subreddit community, other Weebly customers have mentioned that Square representatives have confirmed their intentions with moving away from the Weebly website builder.

On Twitter/X, the @Weebly account has stopped replying to all customer support inquiries.

Steve Benjamins from the (excellent) SiteBuilderReport.com agrees that Weebly has entered end-of-life and is to be shut down: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/weebly-review

The WP Indigo blog agrees that shut down is imminent. Specifically, they reference the following points:

• Weebly has not had any major product updates.
• The Weebly blog is dead.
• 3rd party app development has been frozen.
• Weebly for Education closed in 2022
• The last Weebly social media post was two years ago.

What is Square Saying? Our Experience.

Aside from the aforementioned “We will continue support until July 2025” line in their help documentation, getting Square/Weebly customer support to comment on this matter is practically impossible.

The first time we contacted the Square team around 2022, we received a “timeline is unknown” answer.

The second time, we reached out to them in 2023, and received a confirmation that Square planned on moving away from the Weebly website builder, with the intention of prioritizing the Square Online platform (which is meant for e-commerce websites only).

The Weebly support office in Scottsdale, Arizona has also just laid off all its employees.

To Summarize

It is frustrating that the Square team is not giving us much of an official look into the future of Weebly. However, all third-party information points to the same sign: Weebly is on its way out.