Rebuild your home page inside Squarespace and keep the rest

What stays the same, and what can change

The work happens inside your site, so your account, plan, domain and billing stay yours and stay unchanged. Squarespace keeps ownership with the owner: even an administrator can’t transfer it.

• Your home page’s address. The homepage shows at your domain itself, without a URL slug, whichever page holds the homepage setting.
• Your other pages and their URL slugs, which live in each page’s own settings.
• Your homepage’s search title and description. Squarespace builds the homepage title from your site title by default and uses the SEO site description for the homepage; both are site-wide settings, and they stay unchanged unless you ask.

Your header and footer can change, and that’s usually the point. Squarespace shows the same header and footer on every page, so a phone link or an address added there appears site-wide.

Templates depend on your version. Version 7.1 has no template to switch; on 7.0, switching templates changes the design and structure of the whole site, though most content stays, and a home page rebuild doesn’t need it.

How you give us access, without your password

You invite us as a contributor, and we log in with our own Squarespace account. Only owners and administrators can send the invite.

1. Open the Permissions & Ownership panel and click Invite Contributor.
2. Enter Yaz Caleb and yaz@katsa.co.
3. Switch on Administrator, then click Invite.

Why Administrator: the Website editor permission can add content to existing pages but can’t add pages or change styles, and a home page rebuild usually needs one or both. Administrators can do almost everything the owner can except transfer ownership, so remove us once the page is live: Permissions & Ownership, our name, then Remove Contributor.

How to undo it

Squarespace has no version history for pages. Its help center says there’s no auto-save or revision history when editing, and once you exit the editor, changes can’t be undone.

So the undo that works is keeping the old page. Squarespace’s own advice for unfinished work is to disable the page until it’s ready, and a disabled page shows in your Pages panel when you’re logged in but stays hidden from visitors and search engines.

When a new page becomes the homepage, the old one stays in the Pages panel, so going back means setting it as the homepage again. You can restore a deleted page for 30 days from Deleted Pages at the bottom of the Pages panel.

What matters for a builder’s home page on Squarespace

• Know your version. Open the Pages panel and scroll to the bottom: 7.1 sites show a Version 7.1 label, and 7.0 sites show their template’s name.
• On 7.1, Fluid Engine sections have their own mobile layout. You can arrange, resize and hide blocks for phones without touching desktop, but text and link changes apply to both, and Fluid Engine isn’t available on 7.0.
• Upgrading an older classic editor section to Fluid Engine can shift its layout slightly and you can’t revert it after you save, so duplicate the section first if you’re unsure.
• Your phone number belongs in the header as a tap-to-call link. The tap-to-call page shows how to set it up on Squarespace.

What we found on Squarespace builder sites

In Katsa’s review of 171 builder and remodeler websites, read on October 30, 2026, 20 of the sites ran on Squarespace. Both numbers below come from the header and footer, two of the five parts this rebuild covers.