Where's the Squarespace Marketing Menu?
AKA Where did the Promotional Popup & Announcement Bar go?
Squarespace has removed the Marketing Menu - here’s where to find stuff now…
As of a few days ago, Squarespace has completely removed the Marketing Menu from the admin interface, leaving many customers scrambling around trying to find how to edit their Promotional Popup or Announcement Bar. If you’re one of them - or if you’ve ever struggled to remember where to find something in the admin interface, I’ve got you covered.
Promotional Popup and Announcement Bar can now be found under Pages > Website Tools
It’s not a super sensible place for these things to move, since most people never need to go to Website Tools in the first place - it’s normally designer/developers who needed to go there in the past. But lo and behold, that’s where they decided to move it. You might not even know it’s there, because it’s located at the very bottom of the Pages menu, below all of your pages including any pages you have in the Not Linked section. While you’re in there, you might also want to take a look at the Mobile Information Bar… if you even knew such a thing existed!
If you can’t see it, you need to scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of the Pages menu.
Rather annoyingly, we also lost the super handy stats that used to show when you first loaded the Marketing Menu - including some handy email conversion stats. Perhaps these will make a comeback somewhere else. However, while you’re here, it’s also worth pointing out a super handy shortcut to find things in the Squarespace system… I promise this trick will become your favourite way to navigate!
Handy shortcut to find ANYTHING in the Squarespace menu system
You may not realise it, but there’s a secret weapon on your keyboard: the question mark / forward slash key.
You can hit this key anytime you are logged into Squarespace, and then type the name of what you are looking for to jump straight there.
You kind of need to know the name of the thing you’re looking for, but this trick can save you loads of time, especially when the Squarespace elves are busy tinkering with menus and shifting things around so frequently.
It also seems that the Squarespace elves have applied some tags or something to the items that are in the menu, because when I typed “announce” it also found the Cookie Banner and Mobile Information Bar, in addition to the Announcement Bar, which to me indicates that those other items must have some tags applied behind the scenes to make them come up in the search. This is why I said you kind of need to know the name of the thing you are searching for; it seems the search function will find other similar things, so you can actually take a guess at what the name of the thing is, and you might get lucky even if you don’t know the actual name.
My little trick to remember what key to hit: if you have a question, hit the question mark! (Technically it’s the forward slash, as you’d need to hold down shift to make it a question mark, but you get the idea… hope it helps you remember.)
Here’s a video showing this in action, along with a handy tip for how to remember where to find something once you are there. Happy searching!
6 reasons why the keyboard shortcut for finding things in Squarespace is your new best friend
I’m so convinced that this handy shortcut is the best thing since sliced bread, I’m really going to try to convince you to use it! Here’s why:
It will save you loads of time moving in and out of menus with the little arrows at the top left, especially for items that are nested deep within multiple layers of menus. Since there’s no breadcrumb, you can’t quickly skip levels to get back out. Forget all those clicks; hit / instead!
You’ll never need to remember where anything is anymore. And if they move it, who cares? Everything is a / away!
You can quickly jump to related items to carry out related tasks. For example, if you’re setting up your taxes, you’ll probably also want to see how the taxes show on your invoices/receipts. These are in separate menus, but hitting / and typing “tax” will put them just a click away from each other.
It will remember the last page you were editing, if you have to jump somewhere else to perform some other task. Simply hit / and start typing “web” and click WEBSITE in the results, and it will take you straight back to the last page you were on before you jumped away.
You will discover things you didn’t know existed - things you might want to adjust to match your brand or improve user experience. For example, if you hit / and start typing “page” you’ll see System Pages and Checkout Page and Store Policies all coming up in the search results. Have you edited those? If not, maybe you should take a look… especially at the Not Found/404 Page. I always recommend making this more user friendly and attractive, just in case you remove content from your website and someone ends up seeing this error page. Or, if you hit / and start typing “style”, you will discover animation settings, form options and Cookie Banner styling. Have you edited those?
It’s a shortcut into the Squarespace Help pages. Whenever you do a search by hitting the / key, at the bottom of the results there’s a shortcut link to the Squarespace Help page for whatever term you searched for (see the above image to see what I mean). Simply click on that bottom text and it open a new browser tab with a list of Squarespace Help pages about that topic.
Did I convince you yet?
Why do they keep moving things in Squarespace?
Now, you might be wondering why on earth they can’t just leave things where they were in the first place. While I can’t say that things that are moved end up in the most sensible locations (the Website Tools move is particularly bad in my opinion!), I can say that as the product grows to include more and more functionality, the more difficult it gets to fit all tools and settings into a menu structure that makes sense.
As a Circle Community Leader, I can say that the product teams at Squarespace are aware of this issue, and changing menus is not something that they take on lightly without a great deal of consideration. They are aware that moving or removing things in the Squarespace menu system causes confusion for users, but sometimes it’s unavoidable to make room for other new features. Other times, they use data on how their customers are using - or not using - things to find ways to move things to make other things easier to find. So unless they stop adding new features (something I’m sure we don’t want to happen), then the occasional move in the Squarespace editing interface is unavoidable.
This is why the above shortcut for searching within the Squarespace interface is a good one to keep in your pocket for those times when you really need to find something quickly.
Hope that helps!