Here's How to Redirect Multiple Blog Posts, Events, or Products on Squarespace
I recently updated the slug on my blog. For those who aren’t web nerds, the slug is the URL, or that thing you type into your search bar to land on the web page you desire.
Instead of the old slug (/blog-content), I wanted it to be (/blog.)
So I updated in Squarespace in 2 seconds and boom, I thought I was good to go.
A few days later however I posted a blog post to my Linkedin. After a while, I realized it only had 3 impressions (much less than the 150 it usually pulls in). I decided to do a little investigating and that’s when I realized that when you clicked the link to the blog post it went to my 404 error page on my site, not the post!
Grrr.
Even website nerds screw up from time to time.
Not wanting to go back and create individual 301 redirects on ALL my blog posts from day 1, I found this simple solution which I will share now:
To redirect ALL items in a collection of blog posts, events or products on Squarespace, insert the [name] variable when creating the redirect.
Here’s an example: My old blog page's URL was /blog-content and I changed it to /blog. To make sure that visitors can still view my blog-content posts when they click an old link, I had to set up my 301 like this:
/blog/[name] -> /posts/[name] 301Please note that I am still using version 7.0 of Squarespace (if it ain’t broke don’t fix it). If you want to do this on 7.1, please note that the store page URL slugs include /p/ before the product URL slug, so the redirect would look like this: /store/p/[name] -> /buy/p/[name] 301
I am super grateful this was fairly easy to do within Squarespace otherwise I’d be in a big pickle. And ain’t nobody got time for that!