blog-post Is the Fluid Engine editor available for the individual blog post pages?

My site is built on 7.1 using Fluid Engine, and I'm adding a blog, but when I create my individual blog posts (not the main blog page) the Fluid Engine editor isn't available for me to lay out the page as I'd like. I don't even get the option to "upgrade" the post pages to Fluid Engine. Am I missing something, or is Fluid Engine just not available for blog posts on 7.1? Thanks!

On 1/29/2023 at 1:28 PM, paul2009 said:

You’re not missing anything. Fluid engine is a recent addition and is not yet available within blog posts, events or products.

Do you know if/when squarespace plans on updating blog posts to fluid engine? I'm getting very frustrated making my whole website look a certain way and then I cannot achieve that look on any blog posts. 

On 2/3/2023 at 1:57 PM, SarahPiano said:

Do you know if/when squarespace plans on updating blog posts to fluid engine? I'm getting very frustrated making my whole website look a certain way and then I cannot achieve that look on any blog posts. 

There is no official word on when or if this will happen. 

I know!! This is so frustrating to me as well! I don't see why Squarespace doesn't just add Fluid Dynamics to blog posts as well, it's not like there's anything hugely different about blog posts. smh

On 2/3/2023 at 1:57 PM, SarahPiano said:

Do you know if/when squarespace plans on updating blog posts to fluid engine? I'm getting very frustrated making my whole website look a certain way and then I cannot achieve that look on any blog posts. 

What look are you having trouble with? I should be able to tell you how to do it with the standard (7.0-like) design tools. 

On 5/12/2023 at 1:22 PM, derricksrandomviews said:

What look are you having trouble with? I should be able to tell you how to do it with the standard (7.0-like) design tools. 

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

I can say that I have been creating a more custom layout with full screen images on blank pages and you cannot do that with the standard out of the box blog page. Fluid engine is great but missing in a few areas such as customizing blog layouts and blog pages.

Still no word on this?

There is currently no word on adding FE to blog pages, but a blog page can be customized using the standard tools such as spaces to resize blocks on a page. With summary blocks and Custom CSS you can give a blog listing page a very unique look just to name a couple of things. 

57 minutes ago, derricksrandomviews said:

There is currently no word on adding FE to blog pages, but a blog page can be customized using the standard tools such as spaces to resize blocks on a page. With summary blocks and Custom CSS you can give a blog listing page a very unique look just to name a couple of things. 

Can you please provide a link to more information on how to customise blog pages using the standard tools. I want to be able to work with smaller images wrapped with text. Thanks

This is a tutorial for using the classic editor to make a section with image wrap. The classic editor is the default for 7.1 blog pages. So this tutorial picks up for you at the choose classic editor point. 

Image wrap effect using classic editor on pages and blog pages.

Still nothing on this? It's like Squarespace does not care about their customers...

They have not added FE to Blog pages because they care. It would mean a huge redesign of the blog page format and it will happen eventually just like there is now a migration path from 7.0 to 7.1. It just takes time to accomplish. 

No FE in blog posts is so frustrating and limiting aesthetically. I feel so confined in blog posts. It has me considering switching platforms entirely. 

Chiming in to encourage pushing the feature to create fluid engine or some more customizability for blogging

On 11/7/2023 at 9:11 PM, michaelpetzz said:

No FE in blog posts is so frustrating and limiting aesthetically. I feel so confined in blog posts. It has me considering switching platforms entirely. 

Nothing that can't be done with a bit of CSS magic 😉 On a serious note, if you do have a specific issue you are having with the blog post page, curious to hear about them and see if we can find a none-code solution.

On 11/7/2023 at 4:11 PM, michaelpetzz said:

No FE in blog posts is so frustrating and limiting aesthetically. I feel so confined in blog posts. It has me considering switching platforms entirely. 

Same here! This is just ridiculous!

One of the downsides of SS's long standing collections types ( blog, events, and etc. ) is that they are basically stuck in the implementation of several versions past. The Blog Page ( collection ) is basically the version from v7.0 with a minimal page-section wrapper around it to make it fit into the v7.1 framework. Blog Page posts are not section aware as we now think of them for regular pages.

It's wild to me that we are almost in 2025 and blog posts, which for many of use ARE the main bread and butter where website content lives, are still stuck in the past. Not only is it harder to arrange elements, but mobile and desktop post versions are not separate so you can't have a nice looking page on both.