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Squarespace 404 Page

Plan a Squarespace 404 page for your photography website. Help visitors recover from an old link or mistyped address.

A camera and photographic proof prints on a studio desk

This page has moved

Help a visitor get back to the work. For portrait photography, put a route to the portfolio beside the home link.

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Build the page

Write one plain-language heading and offer two direct routes: the homepage and the portfolio or design library. Keep the main navigation available.

Write the recovery message

Try a heading such as “We couldn’t find that page,” followed by links to your current portfolio and contact page. Make a list of expired URLs that do have replacements and map those separately.

Choose between recovery and a redirect

If a project moved to a new address, send the old address directly to that project. If the work was removed and there is no equivalent, show a useful 404 with links to current work. Test both cases with the original addresses.

Check it before launch

Request a URL you know is missing. Confirm the host responds with HTTP 404 and the recovery links still work. A visitor arriving from an old gallery link can reach current work in one click. The missing URL still returns a 404 response.

Working in Squarespace

Preview your page at a wide and a narrow width after adding realistic content. Test how longer text and mixed image sizes behave in your chosen layout, then repeat the task on the published site.

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