Help with blog section - One site, two blogs

Hi there

I am building a simple site with two blogs (one is Journal and the other one Referenzen). I want to have different settings regarding style, meta tags, image size etc. The styling seems to copy over from the other blog and I don't want this. I would like to be able to style each page separately.  For example Referenzen should not display excerpt, read more link and no meta content for date.

https://nuvu-gallery.squarespace.com/
PW: nuvu2022

Thanks for your help.

I try 2 blogs, each page has a different style and it works properly

Have you tried change the Edit section on blog page?

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The styling seems to copy over from the other blog and I don't want this.

Your observation is spot on. Most of the collections types (Blog, Store, and etc.) share settings across their collection types.

So if you change one, all the others change as well.

When a collection has layouts, as does the Blog page, you can have two Blogs each using different layouts and those two blogs will be independant layout wise. But if you have two Blog pages each one using a Grid layout for example then those two blogs will share layout settings. Changes made in one, will be applied to the other.

It is very unfortunate that SS doesn't provide master settings and then allow for each page to override the master settings.

On 12/31/2022 at 4:49 PM, Beyondspace said:

I try 2 blogs, each page has a different style and it works properly

Have you tried change the Edit section on blog page?

 

Hi @Beyondspace. Thanks for trying. Yes, all the general styling settings I set up in the Edit Section. Unfortunately, I still have the problem that if I change something in one blog, the other one gets changed as well.

On 1/1/2023 at 7:27 AM, creedon said:

Your observation is spot on. Most of the collections types (Blog, Store, and etc.) share settings across their collection types.

So if you change one, all the others change as well.

When a collection has layouts, as does the Blog page, you can have two Blogs each using different layouts and those two blogs will be independant layout wise. But if you have two Blog pages each one using a Grid layout for example then those two blogs will share layout settings. Changes made in one, will be applied to the other.

It is very unfortunate that SS doesn't provide master settings and then allow for each page to override the master settings.

 

Thank you very much @creedon! Do you know any workaround for my problem? It is very important to my client, that this two pages look differently.

Thanks, Sibylle

4 hours ago, Sibylle_Zurich said:

Hi @Beyondspace. Thanks for trying. Yes, all the general styling settings I set up in the Edit Section. Unfortunately, I still have the problem that if I change something in one blog, the other one gets changed as well.

As @creedon mentioned before, all blog posts on a collection share the some style. It means that when you change one blog post, it will affect other too.

One approach we can consider is using the Css to target each Item and set the appropriate

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Do you know any workaround for my problem?

I'm not aware of a solution but as @Beyondspace mentions we may be able to help with some CSS.

What would help us is if you could detail the two different layout settings you want to use for each Blog page. You could set up one, take some screenshots of the settings. Then do the same for the alternate layout. Post the screenshots here so we can use them as a potential guide.

Be sure to organize the images so that we know which batch of images are for which desired layout. Two posts might be easier for each group of images.