Thank you for this breakdown. The default page templates are so confusing, i wish i could just organize the same way a store does filters on the left side with multiple filtering built in automatically. Do you think i could achieve that with what you showed here?
You're welcome! Yes, to get the kind of filtering I think you're referring to you'd need the Universal Filter plugin from SquareWebsites for true filtering & sorting functionalities (selecting multiple categories &/or multiple tags, etc) but it's a one-time purchase plugin. If you need help installing it, I'd reach out to the shop owner or to my favorite Sqsp developer Kwame (www.squarespace.com/designer/profile/4912178?fbclid=IwAR2J2xZpxJQBoNHHVLMIlWtaSDj7KNbH8hSGUew0mZVBd74iAkSJY-ZY6-I); it's a tricky install if you're not familiar with the code injection + CSS it uses in the setup. It works wonderfully and reliably after installation. Otherwise, you can try just using the built-in Archive Blocks for semi-functional blog post filtering paired with a search block which would do almost the same thing, just behaves a bit differently and doesn't allow for the selection of multiple filters at once. Hope that helps! 😁
Thank you! Sure. 😁 I often use a blog collection to hold testimonials from clients with 1 "post" per review so I can display those reviews in Summary blocks throughout my website without the need to duplicate the review to show it in multiple places, etc. Because that collection page usage is not the kind of content that I want to potentially compete in rankings with my high-value content, like my actual blog posts, my main website pages, etc, I decided to ask Google NOT to provide the testimonial collection in search results, by turning on that toggle in the SEO for the 'blog' collection used for testimonials only (it's a page-by-page setting). Totally up to you, whether you do that or not! I often turn it off for back-end pages like my legal policy pages, the Error 404 page, my social media linktree-styled page, my media kit page, thank you pages, and more. Good to know we can keep 'secret' pages like this and other basic back-end type pages out of Google's search engine results pages if we want to. Watch this video next to see the 9+ unexpected ways we can use blog collections! ua-cam.com/video/cXRyt6MO6y0/v-deo.html
Thank you for this breakdown. The default page templates are so confusing, i wish i could just organize the same way a store does filters on the left side with multiple filtering built in automatically. Do you think i could achieve that with what you showed here?
You're welcome! Yes, to get the kind of filtering I think you're referring to you'd need the Universal Filter plugin from SquareWebsites for true filtering & sorting functionalities (selecting multiple categories &/or multiple tags, etc) but it's a one-time purchase plugin. If you need help installing it, I'd reach out to the shop owner or to my favorite Sqsp developer Kwame (www.squarespace.com/designer/profile/4912178?fbclid=IwAR2J2xZpxJQBoNHHVLMIlWtaSDj7KNbH8hSGUew0mZVBd74iAkSJY-ZY6-I); it's a tricky install if you're not familiar with the code injection + CSS it uses in the setup. It works wonderfully and reliably after installation.
Otherwise, you can try just using the built-in Archive Blocks for semi-functional blog post filtering paired with a search block which would do almost the same thing, just behaves a bit differently and doesn't allow for the selection of multiple filters at once. Hope that helps! 😁
Very helpful!
Thank you! 🤩
Amazing!! Could you elaborate on what you mean by using this as a testimonial section @2:45
Thank you! Sure. 😁 I often use a blog collection to hold testimonials from clients with 1 "post" per review so I can display those reviews in Summary blocks throughout my website without the need to duplicate the review to show it in multiple places, etc. Because that collection page usage is not the kind of content that I want to potentially compete in rankings with my high-value content, like my actual blog posts, my main website pages, etc, I decided to ask Google NOT to provide the testimonial collection in search results, by turning on that toggle in the SEO for the 'blog' collection used for testimonials only (it's a page-by-page setting).
Totally up to you, whether you do that or not! I often turn it off for back-end pages like my legal policy pages, the Error 404 page, my social media linktree-styled page, my media kit page, thank you pages, and more. Good to know we can keep 'secret' pages like this and other basic back-end type pages out of Google's search engine results pages if we want to. Watch this video next to see the 9+ unexpected ways we can use blog collections! ua-cam.com/video/cXRyt6MO6y0/v-deo.html