Squarespace Basics: Events Page

Simply adding an Events Page to your website helps to highlight upcoming events for your business or organization. A website is a 24/7 welcome to prospective members or clients and current members or clients. You will not be there to guide visitors through your website so make it easy to navigate. By creating an Events Page, you point the visitor to upcoming dates that they can quickly add to their calendar. Squarespace makes setting up and managing an Events Page user friendly.

Adding an Events Page to your website

1. Begin in the Home Menu

2. Click Pages

3. Click the + sign beside the Main Navigation Menu or Beside the Not Linked Menu

4. Choose a layout. This layout can be changed later.

5. Enter the title of the Page.

If your website is already public, you may want to begin creating a new page under the Not Linked menu so visitors will not see the page until it is complete. You can either add the Events Page in the Main Navigation menu and drag the page below the Not Linked menu or create the page in the Not Linked menu. Once the page is ready for visitors, simply drag it up to the Main Navigation menu.

Adding Individual events to your Events Page

1. Key in the Event Title

2. Click the arrow to the right of Details to select a starting day and time and ending day and time. Events must have an end day and time.

3. Click the arrow to the right of Location to add the location of the event.

4. Click Save.

5. Add additional text in the text block.

6. In the upper left-hand corner of the page hover over the word Done. From the drop-down menu you may choose to Publish (Immediately), Schedule (for a later date and time), or Exit Edit Mode (information remains in an edit state.)

Before Publishing you will want to edit the event settings

1. On the Events Page each event is listed. When you hover over the title three dots appear to the right (…). Click on these dots.

2. Select Settings. You could also Duplicate or Delete the event in this same area.

3. A box labeled Event Settings will appear.

Content

• Date and Time - Edit the start/end date and time.

• Status - Edit the status of the event post.

• Tags and Categories - Add key words to organize the event based on the content.

• Comments - Allow comments on the individual event. This may be enabled/disabled by clicking the toggle.

• Duplicate - If you have similar events this will make your event creation extremely easy.

• Delete - This button is red to let you know it is an important one. If you press Delete you delete the individual event.

Options

• Thumbnail Image - Add an image here to display with the event.

• Event URL - Squarespace generates a unique URL for each event. You may edit the URL if necessary.

• Author - This is the website owner.

• Source URL - This is a URL that is displayed with the event information. If there is another URL you may wish to add.

• Excerpt - You can add text about your event.

• Featured Event - You can enable/disable by clicking on the toggle.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

This is optional but by adding more information in the SEO this will help search engines guide visitors to your website.

• SEO Title - Title of the Event.

• SEO Description - Brief description about your event.

Social Image

If you are sharing your event to social media, you can add an Alternative Social Sharing Image to be seen along with your SEO title and description.

Share

You can link several different social media accounts to Squarespace. If enabled, once published the event will be pushed to your social media accounts. This can save you lots of time, so you do not have to post on each social media platform.

Events can be share to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumbler. You can manually share the URL to other platforms.

Location

Edit the location of the event.

Style your Event Page (whole page)

1. Start on the Events Page

2. Click Edit in the upper left-hand corner of the page.

3. Hover over the paint brush (Site Styles) in the upper right-hand corner.

4. Keep in mind the Site Styles are for the style settings that appear across your entire website.

As with every part of your website, make sure to keep your information fresh and new. Squarespace will automatically move events from Upcoming Events that are viewed on the website to Past Events that are only viewed by the website owner or contributor(s). Good luck!