The best Squarespace templates for blogs about fashion, food, travel, and more

A site built with Squarespace's stylish Idrah template could make a stellar home for a fashion or lifestyle creator's content outside of social media. Its homepage varies between banners for trending posts, featured products, and rows of thumbnails for different content categories, making good use of negative space and color blocks throughout to keep things looking cohesive. (All those pastels give off a Very Gen Z Chic vibe, too.) Other highlights include a spot for an Instagram block near the lower navigation and a pre-made online shop for selling merch.

Honorable mention: Haute (7.0) and Lakshi (7.1).

Bright and minimalist (but not boring), the demo version of the Stanton template has been pre-configured for a food blog so you can get your site up and running ASAP. A featured photo and a slogan welcome readers at the very top of the homepage, which continues with a grid of recent posts, promo for a featured product in its shop — your cookbook(s), perhaps? — and a handy, dandy newsletter sign-up form. (As with any Squarespace content blocks, these can be deleted/re-added whenever necessary.) Its warm, neutral color palette is also a flattering choice for food photography.

Honorable mention: Hester (7.1), Myhra (7.1), and Rivoli (7.1).

Want to create a digital scrapbook for your adventures? Fillmore is a clean, chic template peppered with tons of photos that could serve you well as a travel blog. Its homepage features two long rolls of thumbnails that link to super scrollable one-column posts, which you'll be able to categorize by location in the back end. The demo version further adds a gallery page where you can dump any photos that don't get their own write-ups, plus a standard page with a list block (called "Where to Fish") that could easily be turned into a handy city/country guide.

Honorable mention: Grove (7.1) and Native (7.0).

Another mobile-forward template, Nevins gives artists and photographers a ton of flexibility on the formatting front. Its blog page looks a lot like Fillmore's, where you get some side-by-side thumbnails that link to one-column posts — good places to muse on your process or inspiration. The demo version also comes with a portfolio page ("Work") that directs users to standalone projects; each one of those gets a separate post with full-page photos and a short caption/description. Feel free to keep one or both, depending on whether you want to do more writing or just let your work speak for itself.

Honorable mentions: Balboa (7.1), Flatiron (7.0), and Tepito (7.1).

Grow your channel beyond YouTube, TikTok, or Twitch with the help of Otroquest, a blogging/ecommerce template that's pre-formatted for users with regularly updated VOD libraries. (It's one of the very few templates that actually has video in its demo.) Its homepage comes equipped with a featured blog post, a video embed from your main channel, a grid of clip highlights, and a sample of products from a "Merch"/store page, which is all great. But the real draw is the "Support" page with call-to-action buttons for tipping, subscribing, and purchasing Twitch Bits — it's an easy way to engage with and monetize your audience.

Honorable mention: Arcade (7.1).

It's not easy to cram a lot of text and images on a homepage without making it look cluttered, but Mérida manages to pull it off by alternating post thumbnails and full-bleed banner images for featured stories. (Meanwhile, the posts themselves incorporate lots of negative space for an interesting contrast.) Factor in an elegant serif/sans-serif font combination, and you've got yourself an extremely professional-looking site. The Dark Mode-y, white-on-black formatting in the demo version is a nice modern touch, too.

Honorable mention: Rally (7.0).

Brower has a simple grid-style homepage with relatively small headlines, post blurbs, and menu icons/navigation, a design choice that lets your thumbnail photos do most of the talking. The overall result is a sleek feed of content that isn't competing with itself or overloading the reader, making this template a very safe bet for almost any kind of blog. (Bonus: Its sans-serif fonts are super easy to read on mobile.)

Honorable mentions: Farro (7.0), Soutu (7.1), Tudor (7.0), and Vester (7.1).

"Stream of consciousness, but not sloppy" is a good way to describe Harman, a grid-style template that's strictly text-based (aside from a few social icons). All of its visual interest stems from its font and color choices, so it definitely won't work for everyone; blogs about topics like food, fashion, and travel warrant lots of photos. But if you're trying to make a blog that'll serve as your online journal, diary, or personal space for quick-hit thoughts, a site with this template could be a compelling alternative to a Medium or Substack — especially if you sign up for Squarespace's premium Member Areas feature, which makes it possible to sell access to your content.

Honorable mention: Foundry (7.0) and Pulaski (7.1).

Adding a sidebar to your blog is a great way to plug important content without forcing readers to a separate navigation menu. Alas, sidebars haven't been added to Squarespace version 7.1 yet, but thankfully version 7.0's lineup is bountiful. Our favorite is Forte, a simple but striking template that definitely doesn't look like it came out a decade ago. Both the blog feed and the posts themselves come equipped with a sidebar, which can be edited to add your bio, headshot, a newsletter signup link, post category tags, and/or a list of featured posts. If your blog involves some sick imagery, don't sleep on its full-bleed landing page, either.

Honorable mentions: Five (7.0) and Galapagos (7.0).