11 Unique Squarespace Blog Examples to Spark Your Creativity
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Looking for inspiration to elevate your Squarespace blog? Sometimes seeing real-world examples is the best way to spark your creativity.
Below is a showcase of fantastic Squarespace blogs across various niches, highlighting design, functionality, and the awesome things you can achieve.
I looked at over 80 Squarespace blogs when curating this list. Based on my 7 years of experience in UX/UI, I’ve picked the ones with the best overall design that also include extra functionalities that make them a cut above the standard sites.
These websites are custom-designed and won’t look like the typical Squarespace sites. If you’re looking for web designs that are easier to build, check out the 9 Best Squarespace Blog Templates (2024).
Jeannies Field Notes: The Best Designed Blog 🏆
Jeannie's Field Notes exudes charm, inspiration, and a sense of adventure.
It’s definitely among the best designed blog out there. Here’s why:
Clear navigation: From the navigation bar and home page, visitors are guided to the topics they want and the a wide variety of blog posts.
Clever use of illustrations to break up the monotonous grids of blog posts
Consistent branding throughout the site in little details like text underlining
Clean blog post layout with no distracting elements
You could say that Jeannie has “foresee” (4Cs) the success of her blog (pls excuse my terrible joke, can’t help it sometimes).
Relentlessly Sassy: If Barbie Had A Blog
If you have a strong brand personality, don't be afraid to let it shine through your blog design. Relentlessly Sassy does this exceptionally with a pink color scheme and fun layouts.
Noteworthy design choices:
Usability studies have shown that mega menus work better than regular dropdowns. If your blog has many navigation options, using a mega menu can improve the user experience.
Affiliate product links are incorporated in a helpful, context-driven manner, making it easier for visitors to make a purchase decision.
The Shop link is highlighted on the top navigation bar, a subtle nudge to get more visitors on the page.
Special Feature
To create a mega menu, follow this free tutorial from Will-Myers: Super Easy Mega Menu for Squarespace 7.1.
Sustainably Chic: Minimalism Meets Typography
Sustainably Chic offers a warm, modern blog design that neatly balances text and visuals. a clean grid structure is used throughout the site, creating a balanced and easy-to-scan layout.
Special Feature
What made this blog immediately stood out to me is the advanced search bar that allows for both text and voice searches. This function doesn’t exist in Squarespace (even their text-based search engine is often spotty 😒). I looked inside their codes and found that this feature is provided by Expertrec Custom Search Engine. You can use their 14-day free trial to see if it’s compatible with your Squarespace template.
Ashley Chymiy Blog: Professionally Cute
Who said a business blog can’t be full of warmth, charm, and fuzziness? The feminine color palette, hand-drawn illustrations, and gentle fonts convey a sense of playfulness and sincerity. This design choice perfectly supports Ashley’s overall business and authenticity resonates with her audience.
Noteworthy design choices:
Blog page uses custom graphics as blog thumbnails instead of generic stock photos, which creates a clean and efficient layout.
Blog post layout includes a sidebar that guides visitors to explore more pages and gentle nudges them towards different call-to-actions.
Built-in Pinterest graphics and pin buttons within every blog post (no question why she has over 11k followers on Pinterest)
Every blog post ends with a call to action to download freebie, a strategic move to increase subscribers.
Special Feature
This blog uses Brine 7.0 template which has a built-in sidebar feature. This isn’t available in any Squarespace 7.1 blog templates, but you can use a Sidebar Plugin to add it.
Travel Taale: Long Content That Don’t Bored
Travel Taale is a great example of providing clarity and user guidance. Many blogs tend to feel overwhelming because visitors don’t know what to read first. Travel Taale provided suggestions to start with the three most popular destinations, which solve this problem. In long blog posts (which many of them are), images are used throughout to illustrate specific points and break up the text, enhancing the reading experience.
Special Feature
Travel Taale uses the archive block to create a simple category filter. For beginners, this is the easiest option to create a filter within Squarespace. Combine that with the default search bar and you’ve got a good starting point for blog navigation.
The Terri Lowe: Less Is More
Terri’s blog has a clean and minimal design with a near-total absence of distractions. Putting social icons on the main navigation is generally not recommended, but it fits her blog as a social media influencer. This blog blends written content and product recommendations seamlessly.
Special Feature
What makes this blog special is the advanced filters within each blog topic, allowing visitors to filter, sort, and do keyword searches to find the content they need. This feature creates a much better user experience for her food recipe collection.
This feature is created by the Universal Filter plugin. This is one of the most versatile and helpful Squarespace plugins in the market, but a fair warning that it’s not the easiest one to set up.
How You Glow: Dreamy Purple
How You Glow presents a bright, feminine, and well-organized blog with a strong emphasis on visual content. The homepage layout uses a clear grid system to display posts, creating a balanced and easy-to-scan overview. Images are consistently well-lit, styled beautifully, and visually align with the blog's health and beauty niche.
Special Feature
This blog uses Brine 7.0 template, which has a built-in feature to display search on the top navigation.
Jeff Depew: Editorial Photography Blog
Jeff Depew Photography effectively blends a traditional portfolio structure with a blog-style presentation. The minimalist grid-based layout and small texts keep the emphasis where it should be – on the beautiful photographs themselves.
Special Feature
There’s a call-to-action vertical link positioned on the right side of every blog post. You can achieve this with a free tutorial from Becca - Inside the Square for vertical text.
Joanna Fisher Blog: For The Romantic
Joanna Fisher's blog is dreamy and elegant. Images, fonts, and spacing create a unified and luxurious feel.
Noteworthy design choices:
High-quality images make a world of difference for the blog. Even if you’re not a photographer like Joanna, it’s worth taking the time to curate high-quality stock photos with similar style.
Vertical thumbnail images create elegance and sophistication.
Simply by adding a white border to all the thumbnail images, they increase the cohesiveness and differentiation in the design.
Ben Evans: Text-Based Blog
What if your blog is centred on thoughtful written content and images don’t add value to it? You can still build an engaging blog layout like Ben Even’s website. The generous white space, limited color palette, and focus on typography make the content easy to navigate and consume.
Special Feature
The blog uses custom codes to turn the summary block into a vertical timeline. If you’re comfortable with coding, here’s the free tutorial from Beatriz Caraballo for creating a vertical timeline. For an easier route, try the vertical timeline plugin from Code and Tonic. I haven’t tried the plugin myself but it seems very promising!
If you’re looking to create simple vertical lines, check out this quick tutorial: Squarespace Vertical Lines.
Lee From America: Kinda Feel Like TS’s 1989 Album
Lee From America shows how simple layouts can work well if you have a clear brand vision. Her blog has a cohesive retro theme. The distinct style is carried throughout the entire blog, creating a memorable and immersive experience.
Special Feature
The blog uses infinite scrolling. As you keep scrolling down the homepage, it gives you more and more content. This creates a seamless scrolling experience, which is often preferred on small touchscreens. It also encourages users to discover more content, potentially increasing time on site.
Infinite scrolling feature is only available in Squarespace 7.0 (the previous version). To build infinite scrolling in Squarespace 7.1, you can use the Summary Block + Lazy Load Summary Block plugin.
Final Words
Inspiration is just the beginning. Use these examples as a springboard, and then add your unique spin to make your blog a true reflection of your brand and content.
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