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Every tool has a two line summary first, then the steps. Hotkeys are Option plus a letter on a Mac, Alt plus a letter on Windows.
Install and open
Buy it, then add it from the Chrome Web Store
Click the puzzle piece in Chrome's toolbar and pin Squarespace Toolbox, so the icon is always visible. Then right-click the icon, choose Options, enter the email you used at checkout and type the 6 digit code we send.
Open any Squarespace site's admin
The address ends in /config. The quick links bar sits at the top edge; hover it to open.
Click the Toolbox icon
The palette opens. Type a few letters of what you want and press Enter. esc closes it.
Red arrow on the icon? That tab was open before an update. Reload the tab once. Clicking the icon anywhere outside a Squarespace admin opens your Squarespace account page.
The palette
Tools first (Blog Tools, Event Tools, Page Tools, Devices, Asset Tools, IDs), then three everyday devices, then the admin shortcuts. Typing searches everything, including every device: iphone 17, ipad mini, studio.
Arrow keys move, ↵ opens, ⌘ ↵ opens a shortcut in a new tab. The palette has no keyboard shortcut of its own by default; to give it one, open Settings and click the shortcut button, which opens Chrome's shortcut page.
Blog Tools
Every post of a blog in one list, with one setting at a time shown beside each row. Change a row, or every row you can see.
Open Blog Tools
Palette or ⌥ B. If the site has more than one blog, pick one at the top.
Scan posts
One read per post, so a big blog takes a moment. Drafts and scheduled posts are included and stay unpublished.
Pick the field
Across the top: Search Console, Comments, Featured, Author, Categories, Tags.
Switches
Click a row's switch to flip that post. The row shows done when Squarespace has confirmed it. All shown on or All shown off applies to every row currently visible; narrow the list with the search box and the status filter first. The button asks you to click twice.
Author
Pick a name in a row, or pick one at the top and Set author on all shown.
Categories and tags
The chips on each row are the post's; click × to remove one, + to add. At the top, type a name and Add to shown or Remove from shown.
The list holds the 250 most recently updated posts; a bigger blog gets a note. Search Console reads off everywhere if the site is not connected to Google Search Console under Marketing › SEO.
Event Tools
The same list for an events page: Comments, Featured, Categories, Tags. Open it with ⌥ N or from the palette, pick the events page, Scan events, and work exactly as in Blog Tools.
Page Tools
Every page, blog, shop and other collection from the Pages panel, grouped the way the panel groups them.
Open Page Tools and scan
⌥ E, then Scan pages.
Hidden
The hide-from-search flag. Flip a row, or All shown hidden or visible.
Password
Type a password in a row and press Enter to protect that page; clear the field and press Enter to remove it. At the top, type a password and Set on shown to protect every visible page; Clear on shown removes them.
Existing passwords
Shown as dots. Never changed unless you type a new one.
Devices
See the page on the device your visitor has, with that device's browser around it.
Open Devices on any page under Pages
⌥ V. The bar appears at the bottom.
Pick a device
Phones and tablets have a Portrait or Landscape button.
Browser
On by default: grey bands show where Safari, Chrome or the Mac menu bar sit, and the page gets the room that is left. The bar reads, for example, 402 × 717 in its browser, screen 402 × 874. Turn Browser off to see the page fill the screen.
Fit
Scales the device into your editor window; click it again for 100 percent. While you are editing a page the preview stays at 100 percent, so the editor's toolbars line up.
Off
Returns Squarespace's own view. ⌥ V again does the same.
Custom size: pick Custom and type a width and height. Your own frames: pick Add a frame from a PNG at the end of the list, choose the file, confirm the name and size; the screen area is found automatically. A frame you loaded shows a Remove button when selected.
Screenshots
Pick a device, leave edit mode, click Screenshot
Exit or Save at the top left of the editor first. A screenshot taken in edit mode includes the editor's own controls; the bar tells you so afterwards.
The PNG saves to your downloads
Named Site title - Device - WxH.png, for example Westmount Wealth - MacBook Pro 16 - 1728x1117.png.
What is in it
The page at the device's full screen, without browser bands, inside a photo of the device where one exists (iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Studio Display, Safari window) and inside a drawn outline otherwise.
Quick links bar
Custom CSS, Code Injection, Pages, Site Styles, Asset Library and the tools, one click away on every admin page.
Show it your way
Settings › Shortcuts bar: Always on screen, On hover over the top edge, On hover over a small dot, or Off. Position left, center or right. Layout: drawer, slide-out, or dial in the corner.
Park it
Drag the dot to put the bar anywhere; the position is remembered per site.
Your own links
Click + at the end of the bar, give the link a label and an admin path such as /config/settings/domains.
Remove and put back
Hover a link and click its ×, or right-click a dial tick. To bring a link back, click + and pick it under Removed.
Section and block IDs
IDs for CSS targeting, shown on the page itself. Open IDs from the palette, the bar, or ⌥ D inside the admin: the labels appear over the editor's own preview, on the page you are looking at, published or not. Click an ID to copy it as a CSS selector; esc hides them. On a published site, ⌥ I on the live page does the same.
Settings and your plan
Right-click the Toolbox icon in Chrome's toolbar and choose Options, or click the gear in the bar. Changes apply the next time an admin page loads.
Your plan: Settings shows the email you are signed in with and when the year runs to. Sign out there to use another address. The same sign-in works on every computer you use Chrome on.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| Icon shows a red arrow, nothing opens | The tab predates an update. Reload the tab. |
| Blog Tools says it could not list posts | Reload the admin and scan again. If it repeats, Squarespace changed something; write to support. |
| Search Console column is off everywhere | Connect Google Search Console under Marketing › SEO, then scan again. |
| A bulk change shows an error on some rows | Those rows were not changed. Scan again to see the current state; the rest went through. |
| The device preview is small | Click Fit. |
| Toolbars drift while editing | Expected at any zoom other than 100 percent, so the preview stays at 100 percent in edit mode. |
| Screenshot shows blue outlines or Add Section | Leave edit mode first, then take the screenshot. |
| Screenshot failed: no answer from the extension | Make sure the admin tab is the active tab in its window and try again. |
| Option+letter does nothing | Click somewhere on the admin or the page preview first so the tab has keyboard focus, and make sure no text field is active. |
| Nothing appears on a client's custom domain admin | The admin is always on the .squarespace.com address; open it from the Squarespace account page. |
| Tools stay locked after buying | Sign in with the email you used at checkout. A plan bought under another address needs that address; write to support with your order number. |
Something not covered here? Write to support with the site address and what you clicked.
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