What Is the Squarespace CMS? Collection Pages, Limits, and Import/Export

Squarespace's content management is built from "collection pages" - a page type that holds a repeating set of items (blog posts, products, events, portfolio projects) and displays them with a template you design once. There's no single settings panel labeled "CMS." Instead, each collection type - blog, store, events, portfolio, and a few others - has its own item limit, and the whole site has a separate page limit on top of that. Here's what Squarespace's help center actually documents, checked September 2026.

What is a collection page, in Squarespace's own words?

Squarespace's help center defines it directly: "Collection pages are home to sets of content, such as blog posts or products. Visitors browse collection pages to find collection items, then click through to explore item-specific content" (Squarespace, "Collection pages", checked September 2026). That two-level structure - a collection page you browse, then an individual item page for each entry - is the same shape whether the collection is a blog, a store, or a portfolio.

Squarespace separates this from a layout page, its other main page type. Per Squarespace's own basics guide, a layout page lets you arrange content blocks in a customized layout, while a collection page exists to create a series of collection items with specific purposes, such as blog posts, events, or products (Squarespace, "Pages and content basics", checked September 2026). A layout page is for a one-off page like an About or Contact page; a collection page is for content that repeats.

What collection page types does Squarespace document?

Squarespace's help center lists these collection types on its current site versions (Squarespace, "Collection pages", checked September 2026):

• Blog pages and blog posts
• Calendar pages and events
• Store pages and products
• Videos pages and individual videos
• Portfolio pages and projects (version 7.1 sites)
• Course pages and lessons (version 7.1 sites)
• Album pages and tracks, and Gallery pages and images (version 7.0 sites)

Which of these you can add depends on your site's version and template, so check what your own site's Pages panel actually offers rather than assuming every type above is available to you.

How many pages can a Squarespace site have?

Squarespace's page-limits article states: "You can add up to 1000 pages to any of our current Squarespace plans" (Squarespace, "Page limits", checked September 2026). That figure covers layout pages and collection pages together. There's one exception: "If your site is on our legacy Personal plan, it has a 20-page limit" - a much lower ceiling for accounts still on that discontinued tier. Disabled pages still count toward the general 1,000-page limit, but the same article notes they don't count toward the legacy Personal plan's 20-page limit.

What are the item limits inside each collection?

This is the number that actually matters once your content grows, and Squarespace's page-limits article gives a specific figure per collection type (checked September 2026):

A Portfolio page has a second, separate description worth knowing if you're planning one: Squarespace's own article calls it a page you use "to create stylized landing pages that link visitors to sub-pages called projects," and each project can include block sections with "text, images, products, maps, forms, third-party integrations," plus gallery sections (Squarespace, "Portfolio pages", checked September 2026). The 60-project cap applies to the portfolio page as a whole, not to how much content lives inside any one project.

Can I import content into Squarespace, or export it out?

Both exist, and each has a real, documented boundary - not just a button that moves everything.

Importing in: Squarespace's import tool pulls specific content types depending on where you're importing from. From WordPress, it brings in attachments, blog pages, posts and authors, categories, comments, individual images, site pages, and tags. From Blogger, it imports comments, images, and posts. From Tumblr, it imports post types including audio, chat, image captions, links, quotes, text, and third-party video embeds (Squarespace, "Importing content from WordPress, Blogger, or Tumblr", checked September 2026). None of the three import styling or CSS - the design still has to be rebuilt in Squarespace's own template system regardless of source.

Exporting out: Squarespace's export tool is explicit about its purpose: "You can export certain content from your Squarespace site into an .xml file. This is useful for importing content to WordPress" (Squarespace, "Exporting your site", checked September 2026). The export covers layout pages plus one blog page's posts, text blocks, image blocks, and gallery pages. It explicitly does not cover other collection types by name - album, cover, index, info, calendar, portfolio and store pages are all listed as excluded, along with drafts, style settings, and custom CSS. If your site's real content lives in a store, a calendar, or a portfolio rather than a blog, this export tool has nothing to offer you; it's a WordPress-migration path for blog content specifically, not a general backup.

Do I actually need a collection, or is a plain page enough?

Use this before you build:

• Does the content repeat in a predictable shape (same fields, different values each time)? That's a collection candidate.
• Which collection type matches the content - blog, store, events, portfolio, videos?
• Does your item count realistically fit the documented limit for that type (60 portfolio projects, 350 events a month, and so on)?
• Is your site on the 1,000-page current-plan limit, or the legacy Personal plan's 20-page limit?
• If you're migrating content in, does your source (WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr) match what Squarespace's importer actually pulls in?
• If you might leave someday, remember the export tool only covers one blog page's content as an XML file aimed at WordPress - budget time to handle a store, portfolio, or calendar's content separately.

If every page on your site is genuinely one-off - no repeating items, no growing list - you may not need a collection page at all, just a set of layout pages.

Where does Figment fit in?

Nowhere directly. Figment publishes a website from a Figma design through its Figma plugin; it has no collection pages, no item limits, and no CMS of its own to compare against Squarespace's. A site built around a growing blog, store, event calendar, or portfolio is a genuine Squarespace (or similar CMS) job. Figment's route fits a mostly static, design-led site instead. If you're weighing Squarespace's CMS against Webflow's or Wix's rather than deciding whether to use one at all, see what the Webflow CMS includes and how the Wix CMS works for the same breakdown on those platforms. And if blogging specifically is the feature you're evaluating, our dedicated guide to blogging on Squarespace covers categories, tags, comments, and RSS in more depth than fits here.

Bottom line: Squarespace's content management is really several separate collection types - blog, store, events, portfolio, videos, and a couple of legacy ones - each with its own documented item limit, sitting inside an overall 1,000-page site cap (20 on the legacy Personal plan). Import is source-specific (WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr) and export is a single blog page's content as an XML file built for a WordPress move, not a full-site backup. Check the limit for the specific collection type you're planning around before you commit years of content to it.