Today I wanted to share with you my number one Squarespace tip! I’m not sure many people are aware of this feature, and even though I’ve mentioned it a few times in other posts now, I thought it was so useful it deserved a post all of its own.
What is it? I hear you cry.
It’s the Squarespace search back-end search facility!
What a mouthful 😆
Let me explain…
How to find things quickly in the back-end of Squarespace
There is a brilliant shortcut to finding ANYTHING in the back end of Squarespace.
It’s become especially useful lately since Squarespace have been messing around with all the settings in the back-end navigation, and moving things about, making it sometimes hard to find what you’re looking for.
So instead, simply hit the forward slash button on your keyboard (/) and you’ll see a search box pop up on the screen.
You can type whatever it is you are looking for in the back-end into this box and the setting should appear, meaning you can bypass those confusing navigation menus altogether.
This shortcut works in both 7.0 and 7.1!
Below you can watch a super-quick video demo…
Prefer written instructions?
Here you go:
1) Log into the back-end of your Squarespace author website
2) Hit the forward slash key on your keyboard [/]
3) A pop-up search box will appear
4) Type whatever it is you are looking for into the search box and hit return
5) You’ll be taken to that setting in the back-end!
That’s it! Hopefully you’ll find this as much of a time-saver as I did when I first discovered it.
I use it all the time to find things instead of having to hunt through the navigation menu on the left panel.
I have a really fascinating interview for you today, with the founders of shiny new independent publisher, Pellerin Books! I have heard so many good things about Pellerin already and am very supportive of their determination to ‘do publishing differently’… and so I’m super excited to have pinned them down for a long chat to find out more about their plans.