Does Squarespace Have Version History?

People search for this after a bad edit: a paragraph rewritten, a section removed, a gallery reordered, then saved. The hope is a "restore previous version" button like Google Docs has. Squarespace does not have one.

What Squarespace does have

• Undo while editing. Inside an editing session you can step back through changes. Close the editor or save, and the history is gone.
• A trash for deleted pages and posts. Whole pages and blog posts you delete can be recovered from the Pages panel for 30 days. Sections and blocks inside a page are not covered.
• Duplicate site. You can copy the whole site into a new trial site in your account. It is a way to fork a site before a redesign, not a timeline you can scroll through.
• The live site itself. As long as you pay, the current version exists on their servers. That is one version: the current one.

What it does not have

There is no per-page history, no "what did this page say last month," and no way to compare two dates. If a change was saved and the editor was closed, the previous text is gone unless you kept a copy somewhere else.

How to get version history anyway

Keep dated copies of the public pages outside Squarespace. That is what a backup service does: every month, every public page as HTML and as a full-page screenshot, stored with a date on it.

With that, version history looks like this:

1. Open the backup from before the change.
2. Open the page's screenshot to see exactly how it looked, or the HTML to copy the exact text.
3. Paste the old text back, or rebuild the section.

It is not a button, but it answers the question a button would: what was there before. Dead Simple Backups does this on the 1st of every month for $79 a year and keeps 12 months, so you can go back about a year.

The cheapest habit

If you are about to make a big change, take the free one-page backup of that page first. It is on the homepage, takes a minute or two, and needs no account. Then edit with a safety net.

Q: Can I see what my Squarespace page looked like last month?

Not inside Squarespace. You need a copy from last month, which a monthly backup provides as a screenshot and as HTML.

Q: Does the Squarespace editor's undo work after I save?

Undo works during the editing session. After the editor is closed, the previous state cannot be recovered from Squarespace.