How to Move Your Squarespace Site From 7.0 To 7.1

FINALLY (and I mean finally) Squarespace is allowing you to transfer sites from 7.0 (Bedford or Brine template families) to 7.1.

For the longest time you were’t able to upgrade your site and had to completely redesign it in 7.1 which had many disadvantages including loosing all your hard-worked-for SEO as well as all your settings.

Note – you can preview it and not accept it if you don’t like it, but once you complete the update to 7.1, it’s is a permanent change.

With this tool you can move all your critical data (order history, analytics, SEO, blog posts, customer profiles, email campaigns, etc.) without loosing it and you won’t need to move your domain name to a new site. PRAISE 🙌

Why would you want to move your site to 7.1?

1. They update it regularly so you’ll be moving with the flow of Squarespace
2. It is more user-friendly (use Fluid Engine)
3. You don’t need to use as much coding in order to achieve a customized website page
4. Better SEO – Squarespace 7.1 has lazy-load images, site speed, etc. that are a bit better than 7.0
5. More design features and it’s easier to navigate the design side (interface is better)
6. You can add anything you want to any section of the page – with 7.0 some templates were limited
7. You can edit the entire page at once instead of each stacked page in your big index page
8. You can go to design styles while on any page instead of navigating to a different area of the back end of Squarespace
9. You get 10 different “theme” styles with 7.1 this allows for more flexibility in each section
10. More font options! Squarespace 7.0 had just 4 options – 7.1 has 4 heading sizes and colors and then 3 different colors and sizes for paragraph fonts
11. Meets modern web standards like accessibility and performance

(WATCH THIS VIDEO TO LEARN HOW TO EDIT THE FONTS AND OTHER SITE STYLES IN SQUARESPACE 7.1 – This video is for FLUID ENGINE users)

How to do this

Website > Design > Update to 7.1

But it is currently only available to Squarespace Circle members (designers). But it will be coming for the general public soon!

In this video I will show you exactly how to update to 7.1, why it may be beneficial for you, and show you what changes DON’T transfer so you will need to manually update:

MENTIONED IN VIDEO

WATCH THIS VIDEO TO LEARN HOW TO EDIT THE FONTS AND OTHER SITE STYLES IN SQUARESPACE 7.1

This video is for FLUID ENGINE users

Edit site styles in Squarespace 7.0

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