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    derricksrandomviews reacted to paul2009 in Vertical site title in WELLS   
    You should be able to do this with some Custom CSS. Note that, depending on the length and height of your site title, in addition to rotating it, you may need to add some margin to the top to push it further down the page.
    Here's an example. If you need more help, please provide a working link to your site 🙂.
    @media only screen and (max-width: 800px) {   #logo {   transform: rotate(-90deg);     margin-top: 60px;   } } Did this help? Please give feedback by clicking an icon below  ⬇️
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to toripintar in Remove Blog Title from Blog Post   
    Thank you so much!!! @derricksrandomviews
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from jessmurphy316 in Remove Blog Title from Blog Post   
    For single blog post put in a markdown block inserted  in the post itself. 
    <style> .blog-item-title h1.entry-title { display: none !important; } <style>  
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from CaroleVA in Building New on 7.1 Trial Period   
    It can reside in the same account but it would need to be activated separately, however, you can request more time (and you will get it) by using the link in the expiration warning email that comes from Squarespace.
    https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205809808-Extending-your-website-trial?platform=v6&websiteId=552089d6e4b039659f7ab488
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to tiffanyleebrown in Port, copy, migrate, or move a podcast / blog from 7.0 to 7.1   
    Thanks! I'm on Avenue as well. I didn't want to mess with CSS but would like to update a bit. I've used the fluid engine to build a couple of sites for clients; seemed pretty nice.
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from tiffanyleebrown in Port, copy, migrate, or move a podcast / blog from 7.0 to 7.1   
    Do you want the all-new design features of 7.1? The reason I ask is that the 7.1 blog page, where a podcase resides,  does not use Fluid Engine.  The layout options for a 7.1 blog are the same as in 7.0, the classic editor, using spacer blocks, etc. 7.1 Color palettes and Fonts are grouped in site styles and are easier to work with.  However, if you are moving to update your blog page I would experiment with a 7.1 blog page before making a move to it.
    I am still using Avenue myself, but have greatly modified my blog pages with CSS Code. 
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from DFWSherpa in Increasing Number of Blog Posts Per Page   
    I posted this response to a very recent question about the 20-post limit on a blog page and the 30-post limit using summary blocks and pagination.  In your case, summary blocks will take care of your issue. The rest of my answer is just a bonus. 
    Summary blocks go on a page but are not pages themselves so there is no pagination. But there is a work-a-round. Let me address the 30-item limit first. 
    You can chain summary blocks together on the same page. You can have as many items as you want by setting the blocks to 30 items and filtering by category or tags. It takes a bit of time to set up and then becomes simple to add a post to. Give your first 30 posts a cat or tag name or number that you can keep up with like"First 30" then give posts 31-60 "Second 30" and so on. Or you can be more specific and group your posts by news subject. The blocks don't have to have 30 entries and still put them on one page.  You can hide the cats if you wish. The actual blog where the posts reside will go into the unlinked section of your site. The summary block page will now act as your front-facing blog page.  You will need to swap the URL slugs.
    Pagination:
    You can have pagination if you use a second blog full of summary blocks as opposed to a standard page or section.  I have over 80 posts on one long scrolling page on my site. I also have some photography lessons grouped in their own block tied to the Nav bar but they are still part of the main page. Summary blocks are very versatile, and when combined in a second blog can be accessed by a menu.
     You can see my layout here. Click on any group title to see the pagination. Click on an individual item to go to the actual post of course. Check out the pull-down subject menu as well.  This design works for both 7.0 and 7.1.  I used Custom CSS to give the summary blocks a unique look that ties in with my picture galleries and my home page.  
    https://myrandomviews.com/blogsummary
    my random views Home page. 
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to LinBil in Can't proceed with previewing site when switching to 7.1   
    Thank you so much, that solved it! ⭐️
     
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to colin.irwin in no results for website search   
    As mentioned in the first response above, it can take some time for Google to find a new website and then more time for it include results from that site in its index. 
    The .com and .org.uk sites are treated as completely separate entities by Google, so there's a danger that your old site will continue to rank higher than the new one because it has been around longer. 
    To resolve the situation I would do the following:
    First, install Google Analytics (GA) on your new site. You'll need this later and it's best to do it before you move on to the next step.
    Second, add the old .com domain name to your .org.uk Squarespace site while ensuring the .org.uk remains as the default domain. This is achieved by changing the DNS settings for your old .com domain as per instructions in Squarespace admin system. 
    This means that your old site is no longer accessible and people trying to access .com will be redirected to .org.uk
    This is only  part of the solution because the page names will be different between the two sites and visitors could be directed from search results to a 404 - Page not available  error. 
    Third, look at the landing pages to your new site in the Google Analytics site you set up. 404 errors will show up as page names from the old site. If any of them are getting significant traffice you can set up URL mappings . These URL mappings should point from the page url of the old site to the most relevant page url on the new site
    For example:
    /aboutus.html -> /about-us 301 /oldurl -> /newurl 301 When I've done this for some large site migrations we often set up a lot of URL mappings in advance and then check Google Analytics for any that slipped through the cracks. 

    Depending on the level of inbound traffic to the old site from search, links on other sites & blogs, social posts, etc you should be able to set up all the URL mappings you need by initially checking Google Analytics hourly (for busy sites) or daily for most sites. After a few days I would then switch to checking once a week for a couple of weeks. That should trap all the 404s that are getting any significant traffic. 
     
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to Sifat_SEOSpace in no results for website search   
    Hi @glassworks,

    I can help you out here with this situation. Below, I've added some potential solutions to help you out:
    If you want to go ahead with the new domain (.org.uk), first you need to take care of the old one (.com). In this case, redirecting the old domain to the new one would be the best solution. Let me know what your old domain is hosted on, and I can share a guide for this. However, here are some insights to consider:
    How much traffic does the old domain bring in? Is it significant? List the pages that bring you traffic, and then you can add manual redirections from the old URL to the new URL on the new domain. If the old domain doesn’t bring much traffic, you can redirect the old domain to the new one from the domain registrar without thinking about the pages. In this case, all the old URLs will be redirected to the homepage of the new domain. How to Set Up 301 Redirects in Squarespace - https://youtu.be/XkFcD9EukBY?si=OPr_2PVcTFwi1qCu  URL mappings Squarespace - https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-mappings To remove the old domain from the search results:
    You can initially set a site-wide no-index tag to tell the search engines to stop showing the pages from the old domain (if possible). Let me know what your old domain is hosted on, and I can share a guide for this. To make the process faster on Google, you can send a URL removal request using Google Search Console to remove the old domain from the index. Google Search Console's screenshot: https://prnt.sc/TbkdDzLpeXK0  Removals in Google Search Console: https://youtu.be/h223mCgbmf4  Following resources that might be helpful for you:
    How to Set Up 301 Redirects in Squarespace - https://youtu.be/XkFcD9EukBY?si=OPr_2PVcTFwi1qCu  URL mappings Squarespace - https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-mappings  Removals and SafeSearch reports Tool - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846?hl=en  Thanks,
    Sadul Sifat.
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from SetinStoneMasonry in Title bar displaying "i%"   
    I think the problem is still SEO settings. In 7.1  go to blog page configuration, choose the three dots for a post then settings, then SEO, and scroll down to SEO title (optional) I typed in i% and it showed up in the tab. 
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to SetinStoneMasonry in Title bar displaying "i%"   
    Hi @derricksrandomviews, I thought the same however I have checked this and it's not there.
    There was an option for it in the page title setting previously and I had all my tabs appearing correctly however the user interface for squarespace has changed and the option to set that parameter is no longer an option.
    I personally think it's a bug with Squarespace when they removed that option but then didn't revert my settings to default leaving me with i%. I'm hoping someone from Squarespace has a solution that I'm not seeing, I'm awaiting a response from tech support.
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to AndyS76 in Old website keeps coming up in Google, but New square space site   
    Thanks, for checking and uploading that. weird it changed. Both those results are still the old site. I hope its a case of Google taking a bit of time to adjust, and not something technical I need to try and unravel. I am not good with web stuff!
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to AndyS76 in Old website keeps coming up in Google, but New square space site   
    thanks for the info on the redirect - I will check that out
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from webbroi in Port, copy, migrate, or move a podcast / blog from 7.0 to 7.1   
    Do you want the all-new design features of 7.1? The reason I ask is that the 7.1 blog page, where a podcase resides,  does not use Fluid Engine.  The layout options for a 7.1 blog are the same as in 7.0, the classic editor, using spacer blocks, etc. 7.1 Color palettes and Fonts are grouped in site styles and are easier to work with.  However, if you are moving to update your blog page I would experiment with a 7.1 blog page before making a move to it.
    I am still using Avenue myself, but have greatly modified my blog pages with CSS Code. 
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to tuanphan in Tweaking gallery collapse (X) icon   
    Use this code instead
    div#backToThumbs { font-size: 40px !important; top: 100px !important; }
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from ssacarlsen in How do you add multiple sections to a blog page?   
    What is that you want to do? What would go into the "sections?" Blog posts? Categories? Depending on what you want I might be able to help make your blog look like it has sections, similar to this:
    https://myrandomviews.com/storyarchive
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from GeothermalCanada in CSS Expert AMA: Becca Harpain   
    My site is Avenue also a 7.0 site. You can build the grid view. What you see with my blog is a combo of two blog pages working together. You don't have to do that. A normal page with summary blocks each with as many as thirty posts can be chained together on one page.
     My actual posts are in one blog in the unlinked section of my site and I have summary blocks in the second blog which is my front-facing blog. The menu pulls from the second blog using categories and the page refreshing is unavoidable due to the fact a category creates a new URL that acts like its own page.
    If you don't want the page to be refreshed, then create a blank page, and put your summary blocks there. Each block will filter your blog by a separate category. Use an accordion block at the top of the page and in the block are anchor links, each link is connected to its summary block, and when clicked on will jump down the page to that block. 
    As asked about someone reading a blog, clicking on a category, and then a summary block appearing with all the posts in the category, you can do that with a link to the block in the post, but the page will refresh, not any way that I know of to get around that without the summary block being in the post itself, but you would have to duplicate that for all the posts in that category. 
    Becca may have a better way to do this. 
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from GeothermalCanada in CSS Expert AMA: Becca Harpain   
    GeothermalCanada 
    I am doing something like what you want now. I use a pull-down menu of blogs by subject, you click on any one and all posts show up with that subject in a summary block. I did not use code to create this. However I am hiding the category in each post with code and I changed the design of my summary block items with code, which was written by Becca and added to some of my code. You can see it here: 
    my random views
    Just click on the blog button and then pick a subject from the menu if you wish.
     
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from Touchstones in How do you add multiple sections to a blog page?   
    What is that you want to do? What would go into the "sections?" Blog posts? Categories? Depending on what you want I might be able to help make your blog look like it has sections, similar to this:
    https://myrandomviews.com/storyarchive
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to CC_Webmaster in Comments not showing in Blog Posts - what is status of fix? Thread I found was 3 years old!   
    ouch! that is ugly, but it worked. Since we are inside a members area, I think it will be ok. Thank you so much for your help. I ended up disabling moderation as well, but that is to save effort on my part. 
     
     
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from melody495 in Comments not showing in Blog Posts - what is status of fix? Thread I found was 3 years old!   
    You have to enable allow anonymous comments.
     
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    derricksrandomviews reacted to paul2009 in How to get rid of this 'tag' on blog page?   
    You should be able to hide all the blog tags with this Custom CSS:
    .blog-item-wrapper .blog-meta-item--tags { display: none; } In case you aren't aware, another way to bypass the '30 summary items' limit is to use a plugin called Lazy Summaries. It can also 'lazy load' the items to improve performance. (This is an affiliate link for a product I use and love. If you make a purchase I may receive a small commission.)
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    Please give feedback by clicking one of the icons below!  ⬇️
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from pearlkingstone in Choose a portfolio template   
    I think Forte is quite appropriate for your work. Horizontal scrolling is not all that usual, so it makes your site unique. If you did want an update, something a bit more flashy then I would suggest Momentum or Carson, both on the 7.0 platform which I still use myself. 
    https://momentum-demo.squarespace.com/
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    derricksrandomviews got a reaction from sayreambrosio in Live link to most recent blog   
    Create a one-item blog summary block on a page, and set the block to filter featured posts. When you create a new post activate the feature toggle and it will update. 
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