Change Squarespace date format universally

Free plugin for Squarespace date format unification

Squarespace supports displaying blog posts Published date on various places: Blog list, Blog post or Summary block. While Squarespace allows changing localization, the date format in blog posts varies and can be incorrect. There's no built-in method to customize it universally, Beyondspace provided a method to unify the publication date format across your site and support to change the date format that you need.

At the moment, only the Squarespace blog date format can be altered using this Squarespace plugin, we will support event date format in the later phase.

OP can be found on Squarespace forum

The script supports multilingual websites out of the box, Weglot website will not be supported as Weglot provides its own mechanism for converting date format based on selected locale. Note that to auto-display different locales you have to choose Localized format, as shown in the table below. For example:

• /es/home: will display spanish locale

• /en/home: will display english locale

How to install

Follow these simple steps to update the Squarespace date format across your site

1. Choose the date format you need.

2. Copy the generated code snippet.

3. Paste it into your Footer injection.

Date format tokens

Below tables provide explanation for the blog date format tokens and some common localized formats (the format that will generate the correct date output for your current locale)