How Squarespace Portfolio Pages Work

A Squarespace portfolio page is a landing page that organizes your work into "projects" — individual sub-pages you can add up to 60 of per portfolio — and every plan, including the entry-level Basic plan, can build one. Squarespace's help center describes the structure directly: portfolio pages let you "create a portfolio comprised of different sub-pages where you can organize and showcase your projects" (Squarespace, "Portfolio pages", checked September 2026, guide for version 7.1). Here's how projects, galleries, and password protection actually work, and what's true and not true about which plan you need.

What is a portfolio page, and how do project sub-pages work?

A portfolio page itself is the landing page — it doesn't hold your images directly. Each project is a real sub-page underneath it, and Squarespace's guide describes what a project holds: you "add the content for your portfolio," and "projects display as images or links on your portfolio page, which visitors click to open the projects." A portfolio page can hold "up to 60 projects" (same source).

That structure matters for planning a site: a portfolio page is closer to a category page than a single gallery. Each project gets its own layout, its own images, and its own URL, all organized under one parent page a visitor browses first. If you need more than 60 projects, that's a real Squarespace limit — you'd need a second portfolio page for the overflow.

What are gallery sections, and what image limits apply?

Inside a project, the gallery block is the tool for displaying multiple images. Squarespace's help center: "Use gallery blocks to add galleries of images and videos to pages and blog posts in a variety of layouts" (Squarespace, "Gallery blocks", checked September 2026). The layout options are Slideshow, Carousel, Grid, and Stack — each arranges the same images differently rather than changing what you can upload.

The real ceiling to plan around is the block's item count: "You can add up to 250 images or, if your site is on version 7.0, videos" per gallery block (same source). Two hundred fifty images per gallery is generous for a single project, but a portfolio with many large image sets should think in terms of one gallery block per project rather than one giant gallery for everything.

Individual image files have their own limits, separate from the gallery's item count. Squarespace's image-formatting guide states a "20 MB limit" per file and a "120 MP (megapixel) limit" on resolution, and that only ".jpg, .gif, .png, or .webp" are accepted image formats (Squarespace, "Formatting images for display on the web", checked September 2026). A camera-original TIFF or a layered file needs converting to one of those four formats before it will upload at all.

How do I password-protect a project?

Squarespace protects at the page level, and a project page can be one of the pages you lock. To set a password: open the Pages panel, open the page's settings (the gear icon), and enter a password in the Password field before saving. Squarespace's help center: "Passwords are case-sensitive and must be 30 characters or fewer" (Squarespace, "Page passwords", checked September 2026).

One behavior worth knowing before you use this for client work: locking a portfolio page as a whole also locks everything under it. Squarespace's own guidance is that password-protecting a collection page — which includes a portfolio page — also password-protects the page's individual collection items, meaning every project inside it. If you only want to gate one project rather than the entire portfolio, password-protect that individual project page directly rather than the parent portfolio page.

Everyone who has the password sees the same content — Squarespace doesn't document a way to issue different passwords to different visitors, so this is a shared-password gate, not per-client access control. If you need to know exactly who viewed a project, or want each client to have their own login, this feature doesn't do that; it only keeps the page off public view until someone has the one password you set.

Which plan do I need?

Neither portfolio pages, gallery sections, nor page passwords are called out as plan-restricted in Squarespace's own plan-comparison materials. Squarespace's guide to choosing a plan describes the entry-level Basic plan as suited to someone who wants to "display work, write a blog, or establish a basic web presence," without listing portfolio pages or password protection as features reserved for a higher tier (Squarespace, "Choosing the right Squarespace plan", checked September 2026). If you want to sell prints or downloads from inside a project page, that's a commerce feature with its own plan and fee structure — check our Squarespace pricing guide for what each plan unlocks and its transaction fees before you plan a store around a portfolio.

What if my portfolio needs client proofing or print sales?

Portfolio pages, galleries, and passwords cover display and basic access control — they don't add favoriting, per-image comments, or print fulfillment. If proofing or selling prints is core to how you work, our photography portfolio website guide covers Format and Pixpa, two platforms built specifically for that job, alongside what Squarespace itself documents for photographers. If your work is closer to architecture or design — large drawings, mixed aspect ratios, collaborator credits — our architecture portfolio website guide checks Squarespace's image limits against Cargo's, since drawings and renders often exceed what a photography-first platform expects.

Where does Figment fit in?

Not directly for this. Figment publishes a Figma design as a live website through its Figma plugin — it has no portfolio-pages structure, no gallery block, and no page-password feature of its own. If you want full design control over how a project page looks and are comfortable building each one by hand in Figma rather than relying on Squarespace's project-and-gallery system to generate them, that's a different route, not a replacement for the structure covered here. If you need the 60-project structure, the built-in galleries, or password gating documented above, Squarespace's own tools are the ones to use.

Bottom line: a Squarespace portfolio page organizes up to 60 projects as real sub-pages, each project's gallery block holds up to 250 images at a 20 MB/120 MP per-file limit, and any project or the whole portfolio can sit behind a single shared password — all of it available starting on the Basic plan, with no documented upgrade required for portfolio pages or passwords themselves.