Summary Block as Carousel and Wall

Summary Block as Carousel

Here's a Summary Block shown as a Carousel display. It creates a little slider that scrolls through a selection of blog posts (or events or products). In this example, it's showing the latest posts from the Sample Blog. This type of Summary Block is best used to showcase featured posts - for example, you might consider putting one at the bottom of your blog posts to cross-reference other posts that readers might find interesting.

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Blog post with Excerpt and Thumbnail
Blog post with Excerpt and Thumbnail

This is a blog post excerpt, which is showing instead of the full body text of the post. This post also has a thumbnail image associated with it. In this template, if you set both of these, then they will both show on the main Blog Page.

Post with location attached
Post with location attached

This is a Squarespace Blog post with a location attached to the post. Some templates show the location as a map link. This one does, and you can see that location link below.

Post with an image at the top of the post
Post with an image at the top of the post

This blog post has a full-width image at the top of the post. Sometimes this can mean lots of scrolling before you see content. It also has a video in it, too.

Post with smaller and scaled images
Post with smaller and scaled images

This post shows the different ways you can crop images in Squarespace.

Blog post with Related Posts at the bottom
Blog post with Related Posts at the bottom

Here's an example of how you can use a Summary Block to show a Related Posts list at the bottom of your blog posts.

Post with a promoted block
Post with a promoted block

Not all templates use the Promoted Block feature. The ones that do, show the first image in a special way that makes it stand out.

Summary Block as Wall

This is the Wall display. It shows post snippets in a mosaic (aka masonry) grid. That means that the thumbnail images aren't cropped; they show in the full original dimensions. I think this kind of display can look a bit messy, especially when you show the text excerpts. I think it looks best when used as a Pinterest-style display (click to see an example).

Featured
No Excerpt
No Excerpt
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Poppies are great

Here is the excerpt on the post

Here's a blog post

This is where the excerpt goes

Latest post
Latest post

This is a blog excerpt

Blog post with Excerpt and Thumbnail
Blog post with Excerpt and Thumbnail

This is a blog post excerpt, which is showing instead of the full body text of the post. This post also has a thumbnail image associated with it. In this template, if you set both of these, then they will both show on the main Blog Page.

This is a post with the Excerpt showing

This example post shows what happens if you don't add a Thumbnail Image. It shows the Excerpt on its own.

Post with location attached
Post with location attached

This is a Squarespace Blog post with a location attached to the post. Some templates show the location as a map link. This one does, and you can see that location link below.

Post without excerpt
Post without excerpt
Blog post with different Thumbnail and inner image
Blog post with different Thumbnail and inner image

This is a blog post excerpt, which is showing instead of the full body text of the post. This post also has a thumbnail image associated with it. In this template, if you set both of these, then they will both show on the main Blog Page. But this post shows how you can have different image(s) on the post itself.

Post with an image at the top of the post
Post with an image at the top of the post

This blog post has a full-width image at the top of the post. Sometimes this can mean lots of scrolling before you see content. It also has a video in it, too.