How to change publication date on Squarespace blog post and event

Squarespace allows you to change the publication date of a blog post or event before or after it’s published, this setting will change the order of posts on blog list collection page.

Below are step-by-step instruction on how to change date on Squarespace blog post, note that the steps are in latest version of Squarespace 7.1 template.

Let’s get started

Change publication date

Sign in to your Squarespace website, and access the admin interface in /config

Select your collection in Website -> Pages

Choose the collection page

Next, click three dots icon of the blog post which you want to change the publication date, click Settings

Choose Settings option

Then select Options in the popup

Select Option settings

Choose the Status menu, this is where the publication date picker can be found

Select Status menu

Use the calendar to pick the date you want to change as publication date

Change the date from calendar

Click Save to submit the change

Save the settings

That’s it, you have changed the publication date of your posts and events!

FAQs about publication date

Question: Can I change the publication date of Squarespace events?

Sure you can! Instead of choosing a Blog collection, you can choose Event collection and follow the exact steps to change date of an Event item

Question: How can I backdate a blog post in Squarespace?

To change blog post publication date to the past, make sure your selected Status is Published, then you can use the left arrow on the calendar to select date in the past

Question: How can I quickly switch different months and years on the calendar?

By default, you can only switch different months and years by clicking on the left or right arrows on the calendar to switch on different dates, which you might find very time-consuming trying to choose different months or years. Luckily for you, I have developed an enhancement for this calendar, check it out Blog Publish Datepicker

Publication datepicker with Year and Month view

Question: How to change the date format for my blog post

You can change the date format by heading to Settings -> Website -> Site Languages and choose your website’s language in the dropdown

Website language

This settings will change the format of your Blog list collection page and Blog post, but they are not displaying the same format. If you want to unify the date format of Blog list, blog post and in Summary block, using our snippet Date format for Squarespace, it allows you to use custom date format for your blog publication date (for example: include the name of the day of the week like Monday, 8 April 2024)

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Want to access your collection pages from anywhere? Our snippet Admin Quick Access allows you to quickly navigate to your collection pages, including Blog, Event, Store…

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