How to remove date from Squarespace blog post

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How to change the date of a blog post before publishing
Here’s how to change the date before publishing in Squarespace 7.0:
Here’s how to change the date before publishing in Squarespace 7.1:
Changing the blog post’s publication date also changes the order in which it appears on a Blog page or in the archives
Final Thoughts
How to remove the date from your Squarespace blog posts:

Blogging and creating content for your website is rarely a “publish and never touch it again” situation.

It’s quite common to go back to old blog posts that you published a long time ago and update their content, improve the information, make it more current and increase the value to both search engines and visitors.

This is actually something i’ve been doing on my own website, and even though it takes a lot of time and effort to improve all of these previously published blog posts, I can already see some major SEO benefits! We’re talking an increase in website traffic, higher conversion rates, more opt-ins to my newsletter and higher rankings for my desired keywords and keyphrases. Yassss queen!

Once you decide to go back to these blog posts and pump them up with a second life, you probably want to update the blog post’s publication date while you’re at it since this can be an SEO factor.

I’ve already answered the question “Does changing a blog post’s publication date affect SEO?” so if you haven’t already, be sure to read that post for more information and a better understanding of what’s going on in Google’s mind.

But in this post specifically, I’m going to show you exactly how to change/update a Squarespace blog post’s publication date.

Click play to watch the video tutorial below or read on for written instructions!

In most cases, you’ll want to change/update the publication date of a blog post that you’ve already published.

Here’s how to do it:

Home Menu > click Pages.
Click the Blog Page containing the post (who’s publication date you want to change)
Hover over the blog post you'd like to change and click Edit.
For Squarespace sites on version 7.1, click the gear icon in the top-right hand corner
Inside the blog post editor, click the date below Published
Select a new date and time from the calendar
Click Save or Apply and then you’ll see the post's new publication date on your Blog Page

Et voila! Easy as pie.

How to change the date of a blog post before publishing

Let’s say you’ve scheduled a draft blog post to go live sometime in the future, but you then decide that you want to change the publication date before you publish the post.

Here’s how to change the date before publishing in Squarespace 7.0:

In the blog post settings, click Draft.
Select Published
Click the current publication date below Published
Select a new date and time
Click Save & Publish

Note: your blog post will only publish after you click Save & Publish, even if you select an earlier publication date or time for the draft.

Here’s how to change the date before publishing in Squarespace 7.1:

In the top-right corner, click the gear icon to open the blog post settings.
Click Draft.
Select Published.
Click the current publication date below Published.
Select a new date and time.
Click Apply.
Hover over Done and click Save.

Note: when you click Apply, the blog post will publish immediately. The post will revert to a draft if you hover over Done and click Discard Changes.

Changing the blog post’s publication date also changes the order in which it appears on a Blog page or in the archives

Something to consider is that any time you change a blog post’s publication date, you will also change the order in which that blog post appears on a Blog Page as well as in the Archives. Squarespace blog posts appear in reverse-chronological order by publication date on both the Blog Page and in the Archive (meaning: newest blog posts displayed first/at the top, oldest ones at the end/bottom).

So let’s say that a blog post was originally published in April 2018 but then you change the blog post’s publication date to February 2020, the blog post will now show up at the top of the blog page along with other posts published in February 2020 AND it will also show up in the archives under the month/year February 2020.

Final Thoughts

It’s super quick and easy to change a Squarespace blog post’s publication date so if you’re going back to old blog posts to update/improve/refresh the content and make it better for SEO, then this is something that you’ll definitely want to consider doing! It will take you literally a few seconds to do but it can have a significant impact on SEO.

Now it’s your turn to tell me, have you ever update a blog post’s publication date? Did you do this after updating an old blog post for SEO reasons? Did you notice how that new blog post publication date then showed up in search results? I’d love to know so leave me a note in the comments below!

If you’re using Squarespace 7, you can remove the date from your blog posts by following these steps:

1. Log in to your Squarespace account and go to your blog page

2. Click on the post you want to edit

In the editor, click on the “Settings” tab

4. Under “Post Settings”, uncheck the “Display Date” box

5. Save your changes

That’s it! The date will now be hidden from that specific blog post.

PRO TIP: Please be aware that removing the date from your Squarespace blog post 7 may result in your blog posts appearing out of order on your blog.

How Do I Remove the Date From My Squarespace Blog Post 7?

If you’re using Squarespace 7, you can remove the date from your blog posts by following these steps: 1. Log in to your Squarespace account and go to your blog page.

This may seem like a challenge, since blog formatting carries across all blogs. But with a little Custom CSS, we can remove the date from both the main blog page and all blog posts for just one of your Squarespace blogs.

Someone recently reached out with this question. She has a blog on her site for normal blog posts, and wanted to keep the dates on those. But she had also set up another blog to showcase properties and wanted to remove the dates for those blog posts.

Here’s the code you’ll need. You’ll paste this into your Blog page settings where you want to remove the date (click the cog icon next to that page), under Advanced > Page Header Code Injection:

Squarespace is so great for its Drag and Drop abilities, but once in a while, SquareSpace gets a little stubborn and won't let you change the simplest things. One of those things is your blog post publish date.

If you would like to remove the blog date and time from SquareSpace, there is an easy bit of CSS code you can use to make it work. The catch is that you have to do a bit of research first. I've listed the steps below, which are super simple, but they work best if you're working within a Chrome browser.

How to remove the date from your Squarespace blog posts:

First, move your cursor over the date on your blog and right click.
Click "Inspector". This should bring up all the code from your SquareSpace site.
Find the "Class" that contains the date. The "class" name should look something like this: <time class="thisisthenameoftheclass">March 31, 2016</time>
Copy and paste the class name into your Custom CSS. To get here, go to DESIGN -> CUS TOM CSS and paste in the code below. (Make sure you change .insertclass to the name of your class from Step #3).

.insertclass{ display: none; }

And that's it! You should now have hidden all the dates from showing on your Squarespace blog.