Linking to categories or tags

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Linking to categories or tags

Last updated April 07, 2026 16:15

Create links to filtered sets of content to help visitors navigate your site.

You can add links that lead visitors to filtered lists of content by category or tag. This can encourage visitors to stay engaged by finding content that interests them.

A popular approach is to add navigation links to different categories of one blog page. You can also use this method for products, gallery/project images, events, album tracks, videos pages.

Tip: Store pages and videos pages automatically include their own category navigation.

Before you begin

To follow this guide, you'll need:

• A collection page with at least one item, like a blog page with at least one blog post.
• Any categories or tags you want a link for added to at least one collection item. To learn how to categorize and tag content, visit Categories and tags.
• Categories and tags are case-sensitive. For example, Apples, apples, and APPLES would be three different categories or tags.

Category and tag links use the following formats:

• Categories - /pageslug?category=categoryname
• Tags - /pageslug?tag=tagname

While you can create these links manually, we recommend following this guide to generate them automatically in different areas of your site. It's not possible to change the URL format, except with store page categories on version 7.1 sites.

Create a category or tag navigation link

To make a link in your navigation that leads to a page of content in a specific category or with a specific tag:

1. Open the Pages panel.
2. Click the + icon next to the section where you want to add the link.
3. Select Link from the page type menu.
4. In the Link Title field, enter the name of the link as you want it to appear in the menu.
5. In the Link section, start typing the category or tag in the search field.
6. Select the category or tag from the drop-down list of results.
7. Switch the Open link in new tab toggle on to have the link open in a new tab.
8. Click Save.

When visitors click this link, they'll see a filtered collection page. Repeat these steps for every category or tag you want to add to your navigation.

Tip: To create a drop-down menu of these links, add multiple links to a dropdown in main navigation. You can name that dropdown something like Categories, Tags, or Topics. To learn more, visit Adding dropdowns to your navigation.

Create other category or tag links

To set up a category or tag link elsewhere on your site:

1. Open the link editor for a button block, image clickthrough, or text block.
2. Select URL in the link editor drop-down.
3. Start typing the category or tag in the search field.
4. Select the category or tag from the drop-down list of results.
5. Switch the Open link in new tab toggle on to have the link open in a new tab.
6. Press Enter.

Built-in category/tag links

Some page types display links to content filtered by category or tag automatically. What visitors see on these filtered pages varies by page type:

• Calendar pages - “Filtering by:” text appears before the category or tag. The text style follows the body text.
• Store pages - For categories, the category navigation shows that category as active.
• Videos pages - For categories, the category navigation shows that category as active.
• Blog pages - In some templates, the filtering category or tag displays at the top with accompanying text. You can choose the number of posts that appear on the landing page in blog page settings.

Filtered collection page display

When visitors click a tag or category link, they'll see a filtered list of content with the category or tag from that collection page. How this filtered collection page looks depends on which version of Squarespace your site is on.

• Version 7.1
• Version 7.0

The filtered page of results for each collection tag or category has the same style as your collection page. For example, a filtered blog page displays the same number of posts as you chose in blog page settings.

The filtered page of results for each collection tag or category has the same basic style as your collection page. For example, a filtered blog page displays the same number of posts as you chose in blog page settings.

Depending on your template and the type of collection page, filtered pages may include extra features. For example, the tag or category displays at the top of filtered blog pages on some templates. This is how a filtered blog page looks in Brine:

Here's how that text displays on filtered blog pages in these template families:

Next steps

Continue categorizing or tagging content in your collection. The filter will include collection items with the same category or tag automatically.

For help, visit Troubleshooting link issues.

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