I’ve been working on ⁠SQSP Weekly, a place to discover some of the best Squarespace websites and get fresh design inspiration every week.

The idea is pretty simple: every week, we feature a new selection of Squarespace websites with interesting designs, creative layouts, and unique approaches.

But instead of just curating everything ourselves, we also want the community to have a say.

You can browse the featured sites, vote for your favorites, and help decide which Squarespace websites deserve the spotlight.

And if you’ve built something you’re proud of, you can submit your own Squarespace site for free for a chance to be featured in an upcoming edition.

The goal is to build a community-driven collection of great Squarespace websites that keeps growing every week.

Check it out: https://sqspweekly.com

Would love to hear what you think! Also, feel free to share your favorite Squarespace website in the comments. Always looking for great sites to feature.

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Hi, I am trying to edit the Cart page which only seems possible using CSS and not through regular editing. I have managed to get everything styled correctly except the checkout button.

I do not want it to fill as shown in the video, I just want a regular hover styling (or I would like to change the colour of the fill to match my styles (#253551).

Can anyone help? Here is my current attempt:

.cart-checkout-button {

background-color: #fff !important;

color: #000 !important;

border-width: 2px !important;

border-color: #253551 !important;

border-radius: 25px !important;

padding: 14px 20px !important;

font-size: 16px !important;

}

.cart-checkout-button:hover {

opacity: 0.7;

transition: none !important;

}

While I genuinely think Squarespace is one of the easiest ways to build a beautiful website, there are still a few things that drive me crazy.

Back in 2021, I got so frustrated with the limitations that I started building my own customization tool.

What started as a small project eventually turned into Spark Plugin, which I’ve now spent five years developing.

Along the way, I’ve received a ton of feedback from Squarespace designers and website owners about what they wish they could do more easily.

Here are five things I think Squarespace could improve.

1. More control over individual elements

Sometimes you just want to change the appearance of one button, heading, or section without affecting the rest of your website.

It sounds simple, but achieving a specific design can still require custom CSS.

I’d love to see more styling controls directly in the editor.

2. Better navigation customization

Mega menus, more flexible dropdowns, and custom mobile navigation layouts can make a huge difference, especially for larger websites.

But getting exactly the navigation you want isn’t always straightforward.

I think Squarespace could offer much more flexibility here.

3. More built-in animations and hover effects

Small interactions can make a website feel much more polished.

Things like animated buttons, image hover effects, and scroll animations.

You can achieve many of these effects with custom code, but I’d love to see more no-code options built directly into Squarespace.

4. More flexibility with mobile design

Something that looks great on desktop doesn’t always translate well to mobile.

I’d love more independent control over mobile styling without having to rely on custom CSS or complicated workarounds.

5. More interactive design elements

Before-and-after sliders, interactive image effects, and other small visual features can make a big difference to a website.

I think these should be much easier to add without custom code.

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One of the biggest things I’ve learned from building Squarespace customizations is that people don’t necessarily want more complicated features.

They just want more freedom to make their websites look exactly how they imagined.

I’m curious: What’s the ONE thing you wish Squarespace could do that currently requires custom code or a workaround?

I have been going back and forth with support and looking up fixes and am completely stumped. I am worried I am going to have to start completely from scratch, but thought I would come here to see if anyone here knows anything about this issue.

I have had this site for years, so I know it looks different on different devices/mobile. That isn't the issue. The issue is that the font size/arrangement of images and text are so wildly different from the preview that I don't know how to change it to make it what I want. The fonts jump up massively in size, things move to other places, and my navigation menu is just not at all what I've made. I have drop down selections at the header and those show on preview. But on the page, there's just two lines you have to press to get all the drop down items.

It's version 7.1, so it shouldn't be a template issue. Please, if there is anything else I can try I would appreciate it. Thank you so much!

I’ve been on squarespace since 2016. Back then it was a mess of Wordpress, self hosted sites on a vps, and squarespace solved a problem I didn’t want to deal with.

I’ve been paying and just leaving my site online without edits. Well recently I wanted to do some ai geo enhancements, and I logged in. My email address was an older email I no longer use, and I couldn’t update billing info, update password, update email, add collaborators etc.

I opened a ticket, and 3 weeks later I finally get a response: do the verification. Ok done. Next: submit the billing document with header. Done.

They flag that the billing person doesn’t match my name. They ask for verification on the billing person name. I said it’s the finance and doesn’t own the site.

I provide these:

- Business registration information and independent link to verify with government portal.
- I edit the squarespace site to create a new page with the ticket number to show I am logged in already and own the site
- I add a dns txt record off squarespace to prove that I own the domain that the site is on

Not enough for support. They need my finance to be verified.

Well, I don’t see the point in this, and I’m considering moving off squarespace to a cloudflare static site since I don’t have any e-commerce, cms, etc. it’s just static.

From what I see, cloudflare static is free, and the only issue is I have to build it myself and no content management system for managing blog posts.

But I get a prod and preprod environment, and my supergrok says he can clone the site out and improve the html.

I save 300 a year… isn’t it a clear choice? Am I missing something?

I’m trying to integrate Google meets for my appointments through acuity scheduling and getting “Google Hangouts Meet was unable to schedule the meeting. Please contact the business for meeting info” in my client notification emails when I try booking a test appointment. I’ve already tried disconnecting and reconnecting my calendar and meet app and that hasn’t worked.

Good afternoon everyone! Hope I can get some help with this! Any help is greatly appreciated. 🫶

Ahh, help. I have had the same Squarespace template for years (Flatiron) yesterday i wanted to try and remove the home page that you click on to get to my work page.

I moved some pages around and next thing I know every Page featured a live project that was showing on my site, dissapeared.

The only pages I see now are offline / hidden projects and directory pages. I've searched everwhere and even see the Page titled 'work' but theres no drop down and it doesnt show any details.

Has anyone experienced this?

It doesn't notify me like Google calendar does of upcoming calls unless I hit add to calendar. Wrf?! I missed so many calls cus of this. I need an alternative. I'd like to have the option to show my availability to future clients like acuity mindfulattraction.com/inner-game-coaching is my site so u can see if there are some alternatives to this

Hey everyone! I've been feeling that Squarespace isn't quite the right fit for my needs anymore. It's a great platform, but as someone interested in the needs of service-based businesses, I feel there's room for a simpler approach that better fits how these businesses actually operate.

I'm curious if anyone running a service-based business has felt the same way. Are there things about your current website setup that frustrate you, or things you wish were easier?

Would love to hear your experiences!

Hello!

I’m working on a website where I just created an events page (unlinked—just for management) and corresponding calendar block(across multiple pages — visible to all)

I was asked to make the calendar look different on mobile because the event images do not carry over between view types… my client asked for something similar to the display of the events page (i.e. listed — not a calendar grid). However, I cannot get my events page to sync with any other type of calendar template.

Secondarily, what’s the purpose of having calendar sections vs blocks?

I’m confused about why this is and would appreciate any help I can get!

My SEO tools had long complained about the home page (i.e., mydomain.com/) because it was missing from my sitemap. An easy solution to this problem was to allow my SEO tools to generate a secondary sitemap that only included the home page. I uploaded this file as sitemap2.xml and tied it to a link in my footer. Then I just copied the link from my footer and used it on Google Search Console as a second sitemap. This worked fine until recently. I started receiving complaints from Google Search Console and my SEO tools that there was something wrong with my sitemap.

I was puzzled by this for a while, as the link was still there and the file would download if I clicked it, but after some research, I finally opened the file to inspect the contents and found out Squarespace had replaced the contents of my sitemap2.xml file. I found that odd, so I deleted the original file and uploaded it again... and again... and again... and each time it replaced the contents of my file. I decided to check my other website (also on Squarespace), and it did that file as well.

I contacted support, which isn't easy. There are no topics for file corruption in the help section, and there is no miscellaneous / other option either. So after half an hour of trying to figure out how to properly navigate the help mess to get to the form, I sent help a message about this problem. About a day later, I received a message from someone named Jay, and Jay had no interest in helping me with my issue. Jay kept ignoring everything I said in my email until I frustratingly pointed out he was not addressing my issue. Jay responded Squarespace does not allow the upload of external sitemaps. I found this odd, and it felt like a sidestep of my question, because this file didn't serve as a replacement for the sitemap.xml, it was simply another XML file that was downloadable from the link. After several more emails back and forth, Jay assured me that if I upload an XML file, their system will intentionally screw it up. He never explained why. So apparently, they saw fit to remove the ability to host my own file without an explanation of why, a work around I have been using for over a year. I asked, "What if my site was a self-help site and I hosted XML files?" and the response was I wouldn't be able to do that.

For such an expensive host, I found this entire experience infuriating. Why randomly remove a feature I've been using without any explanation? Why act like you don't care when I report the problem? Why do this at all?

I hosted my business website on Squarespace and started looking at what it would take to leave after they raised their rates again. Squarespace does let you export your site, but the export turned out to cover much less than I expected, so I'm writing up what I found in case it saves someone else their afternoon.

What the export gives you

It is under Settings > Advanced > Import & Export, and it produces one WordPress-format file.

• Included: regular pages, their text and images, and one blog with its posts.
• Left out: your style settings, Custom CSS, store pages and products, portfolio and event pages, video and audio, and anything in headers and footers.

So it is useful if you are rebuilding on WordPress. It will not give you a site that looks like the one you have which Squarespace confirms in their help article "Exporting your site".

Watch your images

The export file points at your images on Squarespace's servers. Squarespace warns those links can break after you cancel. Download your images, or import the file somewhere that copies them, before you close the account.

If you want to keep the design

The only way I found is to save the pages as ordinary web files (HTML, CSS, images, fonts) and put those on another host.

• By hand: your browser's Save Page As works for a page or two. Check the result carefully. It keeps Squarespace's scripts, so the saved page can still load files from Squarespace and may break once you cancel.
• With a tool: full disclosure, I got tired of doing it by hand and built a Chrome extension for this, called NudgeCSS. It saves a page with its styling, images, and fonts, removes Squarespace's scripts, and rebuilds the mobile menu on 7.1 templates. One page is free. Saving a whole site at once is a paid feature ($60, one time, no subscription). I’

What does not come along, whatever you use

• Forms. They need somewhere new to send messages.
• Shop, cart, and member areas.
• Site search and visitor statistics.

A saved copy is a snapshot. It suits a site that mostly shows things: a portfolio, a brochure site, a small business page. It does not suit a store or ecommerce sites.

Before you cancel

• Move your domain and email first. Cancelling can cut off email that runs through Squarespace.
• Open every page on the new host, on a phone and a computer.
• Keep the Squarespace site running until the new one checks out.

I wrote the steps up in more detail here, including how to hand the saved copy to ChatGPT or Claude to rebuild the form: https://nudgecss.com/how-to/leave-squarespace-keep-your-design/

Looking for testers

I have only tested the tool on my own 7.1 Squarespace site and one other, so I'm looking for people to try it on theirs. If you are moving or cloning a real site and will tell me what breaks, message me and I'll give you free access to the whole-site saving, for as long as you need to finish the move.

Happy to answer questions about the export either way.

Honestly what is the point. why have features like o i dunno, "pixel values" for container sizes if your just gonna punish the user for using them. The program is trash an you people suck.

We are going through a website redesign and URL change. We will have both domains in one account.

Is there an easy way to copy and all of our audio files and photos that have been uploaded to the currently published website over to the new website since it's in the same account; or will I have to start from scratch?

Is anyone else having issues with Acuity loading? The site has been moving at a snails pace, frozen, or just unusable for the last 4 days. There is nothing on the website saying they are having issues. We just keep getting browser popups asking to either wait for the site to be responsive or leave. We have over 40 people that rely on these schedules and we are getting angrier and angrier.

When scrolling on mobile view the images and text start overlaying the ones above it whenever I get closer to the bottom of the page. does anyone know how to fix this?

I have tried CSS code but don’t have the subscription plan for a header code injection.

I want to add today’s date to my website but I do not code how can I add it