Style Blog Posts Based on Tag or Category

What You'll Create

Blog posts that automatically receive unique styling based on their tags or categories. When someone views a post tagged "featured," it could have a different background color. Posts in the "tutorial" category might show a special accent color. Each tag or category becomes a styling hook.

The Problem It Solves

Squarespace treats all blog posts the same visually—the same layout, colors, and styling regardless of content type. If you want to visually distinguish tutorials from announcements, or highlight premium content differently than free content, there's no native way to apply different styles based on how posts are categorized.

Perfect For

Color-coded content categories, Premium vs free content styling, Featured post highlighting, Content type differentiation, Visual content organization

What Makes This Different

This technique reads each post's tags or categories and adds them as classes to the page. Once those classes exist, you can write any CSS rules you want—change backgrounds, add borders, modify typography, show or hide elements. The styling possibilities are unlimited because you're not limited to predefined options. Tag a post and it automatically gets the associated styling.

Details

• Section Type: Fluid & Classic

• Code Type: CSS + JavaScript

• Prerequisites: Blog posts with tags or categories assigned

• Toolkit Title: Style blog items based on tag or category

Learn This Technique

This is one of 150+ code techniques taught inside Standout Squarespace, where you get:

• The complete, copy-paste code

• Video walkthrough explaining how it works

• The principles behind the technique so you can customize it

• Access to our private community for support