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How the Squarespace blog works, how to set it up, and how to manage posts, categories, and author profiles.

Squarespace has a built-in blog tool that lets you publish articles, news updates, or any recurring content. This guide explains how the blog is set up and how to manage it day to day.

Quick summary

Your blog is a special page type in Squarespace. Each post is an entry. You manage posts through the Blog page in your Pages panel. You can organize posts with categories and tags, schedule them, and control who can see them.

How the blog is structured

In Squarespace, a blog is a page of type Blog. When visitors go to that page, they see a list of your blog posts. Each post is its own piece of content that lives under that blog page.

Your blog page might be called "Blog," "News," "Journal," "Insights," or something else — whatever was set up when the site was built.

To add a new blog page, open the Pages panel, click +, and choose Blog under Showcase.

Accessing the blog

Log in and open your site.

Click Website in the main menu, then click Pages.

Find your blog page in the list.

Click the blog page name to open it. Its posts appear in the side panel.

The side panel lists all your posts. Scheduled posts sit at the top, and the rest are ordered by when they were last saved. Click All to filter by Draft, Scheduled, or Published, or use the search bar to find a post.

Understanding post status

Status	What it means
Published	Live and visible to all visitors
Draft	Saved but not yet live, so visitors can't see it. New posts start as drafts.
Needs Review	Saved and waiting for someone to check it before it goes live
Scheduled	Set to go live automatically at a future date and time

Blog categories and tags

Categories are broad groupings (for example: "News," "Tips," "Case Studies"). Use them to help visitors browse related posts.

Tags are more specific keywords. They can overlap across categories.

Each category and tag gets its own page listing the matching posts, which visitors reach by clicking the category or tag. These pages can also appear in search results.

Author profiles

Each post has an author. By default, that's the person who created the post, and you can change it in the post's settings. On version 7.1 sites, an author profile with the author's name, photo, bio, and website link appears below each post. Those details come from each contributor's own profile, so each contributor edits their own. For guest writers who don't need a login, the site owner or an administrator can add a basic author in Settings > Permissions & Ownership. Author photos and bios add credibility and personality to your blog.

Blog settings

Blog options live in two places.

Blog page settings. Hover over the blog page in the Pages panel and click the gear icon. Here you can change things like the page title, URL slug, number of posts per page, SEO title, and social sharing image. The Feeds tab holds podcast and RSS options.

Blog preferences. This panel, in Settings, holds options for all your blogs:

Post URL format — how new post URLs are structured
Comments Settings — choose whether readers can comment, and how comments are moderated

Every blog page also has a built-in RSS feed that other services can subscribe to. Its address is the blog page's URL with ?format=rss added to the end.

Changing post URL format

Changing the post URL format only affects posts you create afterwards, so existing posts keep their URLs. Changing a published post's own URL does change its address: old links to it will show a "page not found" error unless you set up a redirect, and this can affect SEO. Contact Chykalophia before changing URLs on a live site.

Common questions

Can I have more than one blog on my Squarespace site?

Yes. You can add multiple Blog pages to your site, each with its own posts. This can be useful if you have very different content types (for example, a blog for clients and a separate one for news).

How do I let comments on my blog?

Squarespace has a built-in comments system. Open the Blog preferences panel in Settings, click Comments Settings, and switch on Enable Comments Globally. Also switch on Allow Anonymous Comments, because visitors can't log in to comment. Visitors must enter a name to comment, and can add an email address if they want to. Posts published before you turned comments on stay closed until you enable comments on them. You can turn comments on or off for individual posts in each post's settings.

Can I import blog posts from another platform?

Squarespace can import content from WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr. Open the Import & export content panel in Settings and click Import. It's a one-time copy, and the imported content appears in the Not linked section of your Pages panel, where it stays disabled until you enable it. For other platforms, this is a manual process.

Need a hand?

If you're stuck, email support@chykalophia.com and we'll help. Include your website address and a screenshot if you can.

Using the Squarespace blog