Disclaimer: We are not experts on this subject so if you feel uncomfortable, it’s best to hire a professional.
These instructions are for FatCow-hosted accounts but also might be helpful to others with different hosts. But for those who originally set up their site through Weebly, here’s how to switch. If you are just starting a website, you can choose to use WordPress right from the start (and you should) so disregard the rest of this post. Another big factor was that there are whole communities, including help forums, focused on WordPress that provide a robust knowledge base, something that Weebly was lacking. They are simple to use and make it easy to do advanced customization without knowing much or any code. Plugins are the major draw as there are thousands of developers creating them to do just about anything. In WordPress, you can still use a sort of building-block structure, which is good for the beginner, but there is much more under the hood. With Weebly Premium, we were able to access the site’s code and make changes, but without great knowledge of html, we found it hard to create the look and functionality we wanted. For example, it was difficult to find plugins that would work properly for comment platforms like Discus, display widgets for blog posts, social media sharing features, etc.
As we got farther along and wanted more customization, we kept finding limitations with Weebly. But making a pretty website and one that does everything you want are two different things. Pull in some columns here, add a picture there, insert a little text, click, click, and voila, you are well on your way to a nice looking website. It uses building-block type modules that stack on top of one another to design your site. When we first started, the Weebly Drag and Drop Builder was easy and fast. If you’re looking for Costa Rica travel info, go back to the home page now because this post is all about how we made the switch from Weebly to WordPress. Luckily, our host, FatCow, recently began to offer WordPress too, one of the most highly regarded platforms. Little did we know that almost four years later we would be living in Costa Rica, running a business through our site, and quickly growing out of our simple website builder, Weebly. We quickly picked a web host that was a good deal, was eco-friendly, and made it easy to design a website. When we first started out in 2011, we thought we’d just be promoting our book as a sort of side project. Part of the adventure for us in Costa Rica has been trying to make a living online and for that we need a great website.
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