How To Easily Add A Beautiful Sidebar To Your Squarespace Blog [7.0 and 7.1]

By now we should all know the importance of having a blog on our Squarespace* website. It’s absolutely crucial for engagement, SEO and staying ahead of the competition. It’s also great for easily answering your audience’s questions and proving your expert industry knowledge. It’s truly fantastic when one of your blog posts makes it’s way to page 1 of Google, gets clicks and visitors gain valuable insight from you. But we don’t want them to stop there! Did you know that website visitors are more likely to click around if it’s easy to navigate? Having a sidebar on every single one of your blog posts provides your website visitors with a super easy way to see what else you offer besides the blog post they landed on from Google.

It might seem daunting to think about building a sidebar for each individual blog post every time you want to publish one. And then what about if you want to update a button or text or an image in your sidebar? Are you really going to go through every single blog post and make that change? Probably not. Luckily there is a super easy way to implement a blog sidebar on our Squarespace sites. It’s a plugin from SQSP Themes* that helps to make our lives just a little bit easier. I’m going to walk you through the features and benefits of this plugin, plus show you how to set it up on your own Squarespace website.

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Benefits of having a sidebar on your Squarespace blog

• It makes your blog look more professional and helps establish your online presence

• It breaks up long passages of text content

• It provides a space to include a small image of yourself and short bio, making your audience feel more connected and comfortable

• It makes your blog easier to navigate and can help improve your click-through rate

• It can help you gain more email subscribers if your sidebar contains a newsletter signup form

• You can actually earn money as it can be a good place to display relevant affiliate links or even ads (if you have enough traffic)

• It’s a great place to display social media links to further engage with your audience

• It’s an effective place to display a search bar which also makes it easier for your audience to find what they’re looking for

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How to add a sidebar to your Squarespace blog

The Squarespace Sidebar Plugin* by SQSP Themes* is by far the easiest (and fastest!) way to add a sidebar to your Squarespace blog. It’s also the easiest option for maintaining your sidebar and changing it’s content over time.

+ Price: $59 Standard License || $177 Business License
+ Compatible With: Squarespace 7.0 and Squarespace 7.1

Here’s how to add the plugin to your site:

1. Purchase and download plugin here*

2. Upload the “plugin-sidebar.js” and “plugin-sidebar.css” files to your website

3. Add a regular, blank page to the “NOT LINKED” section of your Squarespace pages. Name the page “Sidebar”

4. Add the code from the plugin instructions to your site’s Code Injection (header field)

5. Voilà! That’s it! Now you can add any type of content block to your “Sidebar” page and it will display in your blog’s new sidebar. Checkout some inspo examples below.

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Squarespace Blog Sidebar Examples

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Did you enjoy this plugin? If so, check out these Squarespace plugins that will help take your website to the next level.

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Questions?

Send me a message and I’d love to help. Happy designing!

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