I'm working in Squarespace today, which I've found to be pretty fun actually. I like how easy the interface is, for me and for my client who is learning to manage her own website. I have to say, for the non-tech user, Squarespace admin interface is much easier than Joomla! or Wordpress or most of the other CMS tools I've worked with.

However... Squarespace seems frustratingly devoid of some basic common features for the modern website, such as the ability to show an image in the blog excerpt.

EVERYONE knows that you need a good strong image to start off your blog post, if you want anyone to give it a second glance. But most of the Squarespace templates DO NOT come with this feature. Not only that, but there isn't a convenient on/off switch anywhere in the admin panel for a user to choose whether or not to show the thumbnail image (or any image) in the blog excerpts which are shown on the blog listing page.

So today I'm working on a site using the Bedford template. After much online searching, I found a solution. You have to open up the CSS and add visibility for the thumbnail image in the excerpt

Go to Design --> Custom CSS and paste this in the code area:

.view-list .excerpt-thumb { display: block; }

Do this, and your thumbnail image (set in the post Options tab) will automatically show up at the top of the post excerpt. Of course, this only works if you have some intro text typed into the 'Excerpt' box (also in Options tab).

OK! Try it out and let me know how it works for you.