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I received an email insisting that "As a current Weebly user, you are required to update your login and connect with Square by October 6, 2022." The update link in the email brings up only a blank page. Other attempts give a choice of either a new Square commercial account or a new Weebly account. I already have two websites on Weebly and don't want to lose them.

Can anyone tell me how to update the login and keep the two websites? OR, is there a way to download the complete websites so I can post them elsewhere?

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I'm not familiar with Weebly, but below is there login that I assume you already have.

https://www.weebly.com/app/front-door/signin#/
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I got the same notice and dance. They blocked my access to my site page with popups, wanting me to set up new login to Square… i didn’t even know i had Square. Anyway, the direction they are heading us seems likely be economically driven. I’m glad i’m not heavily i invested there. Can appreciate why you don’t want to lose those wonderful sites, Steve!
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I can help after the National show if you still meed it.
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As an option, you can transfer your sites over to godaddy.com. That's who I use.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/transfer-m ... daddy-1592
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The glitch is that the domains are owned by Weebly. As things stand, I would have to recreate the sites to post elsewhere, which I can't do. Ideally, I could transfer the complete source codes to the host I use for my website. If there's a way to do that, Matt, I'll look forward to learning how.

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I don't have experience with Weebly or those e-mails, but it sounds like a phishing attempt.

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I agree with Jr. Sounds just strange enough to check out first. I would contact Weebly directly first before paying or "logging in".
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It's legitimate, but Square seems sufficiently greedy to make it tough to keep our free Weebly sites. If we want to recreate them, fine.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ ... ire-Weebly

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Sounds like another Pee Bucket type fiasco. :roll:
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In the past I was able to download a local copy of Weebly page text/html code and individual picture files. That's how the Bronson and OC picture sites were copied and pasted into the ORCA Wordpress site. At that time it was a manual download and reconstruction.... one picture at a time. Maybe it can be done automatically these days.

The ZIP backup was sent to me by e-mail, that was requested from the Weebly page editing dashboard under settings>general> ... scroll down to >Archive. However I just looked at my own ReelyOldReels site and when i try to look at that settings section it asks me to register a store that I don't want to do... so i can't see the current setup. At least my page is still running and I have not yet been sent a ransom notice. Thanks for the warning.
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Matt, you had a typo.
https://wpengine.com/resources/how-to-m ... ess_Domain
Weebly has been free. WP costs, and these are just two 4-page articles. I wanna see if I can transfer them to my own domain host.

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Received another dire warning that we need to update our logins by Sept. 29. But this time, the link they provided worked, and the updating, which consisted of opening a Square account, was easy. This way, your Weebly account is linked with the new Square account. Worked for me! :yay (Matt, rest easy. :fished )

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Kopf reels
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I still think you should transfer to your domain, but guess you have some time now, good.
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I received the same email but have never owned a Weebly site. I don't know if I was listed as an owner on any of the reel sites that ORCA took over at one point but I thought those were closed or given up.
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The member Weebly websites were incorporated into orcaonline.org under the leadership of Paul Manuel.
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—-But yes, Brian, you were listed on Robert Ellis’s sites along with me.
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