Add and Manage the Announcement Bar in Squarespace
Squarespace’s announcement bar is one of those features that’s way more useful than it looks and probably a little harder to find than it should be. Once you know where it lives, though, it’s dead simple to use. You can turn it on and off anytime, reuse for holiday messages, or to promote sales, events, courses, or anything time-sensitive without redesigning your site.
1. Log into Squarespace
Open your site and head into the Squarespace dashboard. The left sidebar you see is the admin area — none of this shows up on your live site.
2. Click Pages
Yes, this is the weird part. Even though it’s not a page, the announcement bar lives under Pages.
3. Scroll Down to Marketing Tools
It’s aaaaall the way at the bottom, click Announcement Bar.
4. Toggle It On
Turn the announcement bar on. You’ll see it appear at the very top of your site as a preview.
Important note: it’s not live yet. Nothing goes public until you hit Save.
5. Add Your Message
Drop your copy into the editor. You can:
Add a simple message
Bold a word or two for emphasis
Link to a page on your site
Link out to something external
This is perfect for promos, launches, events, announce holiday hours of operation updates or “hey, this is happening right now” messages.
6. Hit Save (Seriously)
Click Save to publish it. If you don’t hit save, it’s not live — even if the toggle is green.
7. Turn It Off When You’re Done
When the promo is over, just toggle it off and exit.
Here’s the nice part: Squarespace remembers whatever you last published. So when you come back next month (or next holiday), your old message is still there. You can reuse it, tweak it, or delete it and start fresh.
