Squarespace Tremont Template: Family of Four, Limits and the 7.1 Path
Tremont is a Squarespace version 7.0 template and it heads a family of four. Camino, Carson, Henson and Tremont share one codebase and one template ID, so every Tremont tutorial applies to all four. None of the four is discontinued. Tremont's signature is the slideshow index and the site-wide page overlay with blend modes — and of those two, only the index survives the move to 7.1.
Should you stay on Tremont, restyle it, or move to 7.1?
Who is in the Squarespace Tremont family
Squarespace's family guide names four: "Camino, Carson, and Henson, and Tremont." It describes the family as "a great choice for restaurants and professional services" — and the demos bear that out. tremont-demo.squarespace.com is a Seattle restaurant, camino-demo is a products-and-services site, henson-demo is a London art director's portfolio and carson-demo is a slideshow index landing page.
We verified the shared codebase in August 2026. All four demos report "templateVersion":"7" and the identical template ID 56d9c12107eaa07660adbcad.
No Tremont family template is discontinued. That matters more than it sounds: Squarespace's version update tool refuses to run on a discontinued 7.0 template, so families like Marquee and Pacific have members who must switch templates before they can even start. Tremont owners can run the tool directly.
We also downloaded each demo's compiled stylesheet. Tremont's is 3,905 distinct selectors long, and the selector lists for Camino, Carson and Henson are identical to it apart from auto-generated media-query breakpoints computed from each demo's own font-scaling values. What differs is roughly 600 declarations per template — every one of them a colour, a font stack or a spacing value you can change yourself in site styles.
Search for "Tremont" rather than your member name. Class names and tweaks are family-level, and a detector tool will report your site as "Tremont" whichever of the four you installed: templateId identifies the family, never the individual template. The list of Squarespace 7.0 templates covers all 121 templates across the 22 families.
The slideshow index and the page overlay
Two features define the Tremont family, and version 7.1 treats them very differently.
The slideshow index. A Tremont index page "create[s] a slideshow of full-bleed images" where each sub-page becomes a slide, displayed "when you hover over its menu link." The header branding sits over the slides and does not disappear on scroll. Album, blog, events, gallery, layout and store pages can all be sub-pages — the widest sub-page allowance of any version 7.0 index except York's. You control menu position (top or middle), menu layout (inline or stacked), menu spacing, an optional index description, and a separate overlay colour for the landing page. Scroll to the bottom of a sub-page and the index landing page reappears below the footer.
Only three version 7.0 families have a slideshow index: Tremont, Forte and Momentum. Forte requires a featured image on every sub-page; Tremont and Momentum make them optional. And Momentum's slideshow index accepts gallery pages only, where Tremont's takes six page types.
The page overlay. This is the grey wash that sits over Tremont pages and disappears when you click or scroll, reappearing when you return to the top. It is far more configurable than most Tremont owners realise. Squarespace exposes Overlay opacity, Use gradient for overlay, and an Overlay blend mode with Normal, Multiply, Screen and Overlay options. Gallery pages get their own independent overlay settings, which is why the forum thread on Tremont gallery overlays exists — the user wanted to "disable the grayish overlay function for only our Gallery page" and could, because gallery overlay styling is separate.
The overlay is the reason Tremont sites look like Tremont sites. It is also the reason a migrated Tremont site looks wrong on day one: Squarespace 7.1 has no page overlay at all. Section background overlays exist, but they are per-section, always-on, and have no blend-mode control.
What else the Squarespace Tremont template does well
A header that gets out of the way. The Tremont header displays as an overlay at the top of the page, slides up as you scroll down and reappears when you scroll back up. Most elements have an alternate font colour that displays on pages without banner images, so the header stays legible over flat backgrounds.
Two navigation styles. Nav style: icon shows the ☰ menu at all times, on every screen size, which is unusual in version 7.0 and useful on image-heavy sites. Nav style: standard shows links horizontally until space runs out. Navigation can sit left or right, and dropdowns are supported.
Ajax loading. Tremont loads page content without a full page reload, which keeps navigation on a content-heavy site feeling quick. It is also the first thing to disable when a third-party script misbehaves.
An Advanced store. Tremont is one of only five version 7.0 families with the Advanced store page — the others are Brine, Farro, Skye and York. It is the closest version 7.0 gets to the 7.1 commerce layout.
A genuinely flexible gallery. Horizontal, stacked and masonry layouts, adjustable image spacing, and captions that display over the image or below it on stacked layouts, either always or on hover.
Standard grid/list blog pages and full page banner and video banner support on layout, album, blog, events and store pages, controlled by Show page banner image with Always, In index, Not in index and Never options.
What breaks or feels dated on a Tremont site in 2026
No Fluid Engine. Version 7.0 editing is the classic block editor — a 12-column grid, no overlapping elements without CSS, no drag-anywhere canvas. Fluid Engine is 7.1-only and is not coming to Tremont.
No sidebar of any kind. Squarespace's sidebar guide does not list Tremont, and the markup is not there. Neither a site sidebar nor a blog sidebar exists in the Tremont family.
No parallax. Parallax scrolling exists in exactly two version 7.0 families, Brine and the discontinued Marquee. Tremont has none.
No secondary or footer navigation. Tremont gives you one main navigation menu. Brine, Farro, Bedford, Marquee, Pacific and others all give you more.
Full-bleed depends on a global setting. Squarespace is explicit: "Your site padding must be set to 0 for images to appear full-bleed." Set Outer padding to anything above zero and every banner and index slide on the site stops touching the browser edge.
Mobile is one inherited layout. The navigation "displays as a ☰ menu on all browsers and devices that aren't wide enough", gallery images "always stack vertically on smartphones", the page overlay moves to the top of the page, and "you can't disable mobile styles." Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine keeps a genuinely separate mobile layout per section at a 767px breakpoint.
Tremont bugs Squarespace documents and is not going to fix
Squarespace maintains a Troubleshooting Tremont section, prefaced with its actual position on version 7.0: "Although we still support Squarespace version 7.0, fixing bugs or issues is a lower priority for us while we focus on our current platform, version 7.1."
None of these is a fault in your setup. All are Tremont behaving as documented.
Is the Squarespace Tremont template still available?
Yes — all four members, on an existing version 7.0 site, via Design → Template → Install new template. Tremont, Camino, Carson and Henson are absent from Squarespace's discontinued list, which is the shortest good-news paragraph in this whole cluster.
You cannot start a new site on any Tremont template. The live gallery at squarespace.com/templates returned 198 templates in August 2026, every one of them version 7.1 — we counted them. The old squarespace.com/templates/tremont-demo URL now serves that generic gallery, which is why older "Tremont demo" links land somewhere unrecognisable. Squarespace's own demo, tremont-demo.squarespace.com, is still up and still Tremont.
Version 7.0 has no announced end-of-life, and Squarespace states the move is optional: "Updating your site from version 7.0 to 7.1 is optional." Whether old Squarespace templates are still supported covers the support position in full.
Moving a Squarespace Tremont site to version 7.1
The tool is at Design → Update to Version 7.1. Before you touch it:
It is permanent. "After you click Publish update, your site will update to version 7.1 permanently."
It caps at 150 pages and errors above 200 products on a store page.
Developer mode must be off, and Developer Platform code disappears when you disable it.
Custom CSS survives commented out. Remove the comment tags in the CSS editor and save. Selectors written against Tremont class names will mostly not match 7.1 markup.
Move index sub-pages out first if you care about their SEO settings — the tool discards sub-page SEO titles and descriptions.
What happens to the parts a Tremont site is built from:
Tremont migrates better than most version 7.0 families for one structural reason: Squarespace maps grid and slideshow indexes onto portfolio pages, while stacked indexes flatten onto a single layout page. Tremont has a slideshow index. Brine, Bedford, Pacific and Marquee all have stacked ones.
Audit before you press the button. Export every index sub-page's navigation title, SEO title and description to a spreadsheet — that is the data the tool discards. Enable every disabled sub-page. Screenshot your Overlay opacity, Use gradient for overlay and Overlay blend mode values, because you will be re-approximating them by hand. Count pages and products, and export the Custom CSS.
And the expensive one: changing a page slug on Squarespace creates no automatic 301 redirect, ever. The index landing page is redirected for you; anything you rename afterwards is not. Add those by hand in Settings → Advanced → URL Mappings using the /old -> /new 301 format.
The screen-by-screen version is in the Squarespace 7.0 to 7.1 guide, and the Squarespace 7.0 template comparison chart shows how Tremont's feature set compares with the other 21 families. The Squarespace Brine template guide works through the same decision for the largest 7.0 family.
So: stay on Tremont, or move?
Stay if the Tremont site does its job and nothing on your list requires 7.1. All four family members are available, none is discontinued, and the update tool will still be there next year.
Restyle if the objection is aesthetic. Fonts, colours, overlay opacity, blend mode, banner heights, gallery layout and navigation style are all site styles values. Switching to Camino, Carson or Henson changes about 600 declarations in a 3,900-selector stylesheet and unlocks nothing.
Move if you need Fluid Engine, courses, video pages, a store past 200 products per page, or an independently editable mobile layout. Tremont is a comparatively easy migration — the slideshow index lands on a portfolio page and the Advanced store lands on a 7.1 store — with one honest caveat: the page overlay does not come with you.
For scale: across 54 Squareko-built client sites measured in August 2026 (Playwright/Chromium lab test, cloud datacenter, unthrottled, single run per site), 53 of 54 run Squarespace 7.1. Version 7.0 is the minority case now, but a working Tremont site is not an emergency.
Most Tremont sites we are sent come through the update tool intact and then need a week of tidying — re-entering sub-page SEO data, rebuilding the overlay look with section background colours, restyling the portfolio page to match the old index rhythm. The exception is the restaurant or professional-services site whose entire visual identity is the blend-mode overlay, where you are effectively redesigning rather than migrating: there, starting from a premium Squarespace template built for 7.1 and Fluid Engine is usually the shorter path. The table at the top of this page settles it for most people without spending anything.
FAQ
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Four: Camino, Carson, Henson and Tremont. All four share one codebase and the template ID 56d9c12107eaa07660adbcad, differing only in default fonts, colours and demo content. None of the four is discontinued, so every Tremont family site can run the version update tool without switching templates first.
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Functionally, yes. Camino is a Tremont family member with different default styling and demo content. We compared both demos' compiled stylesheets in August 2026: the selector lists are identical apart from auto-generated media-query breakpoints, and around 600 declarations differ — all colours, fonts and spacing you can change in site styles.
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A version 7.0 index type where each sub-page becomes a full-bleed background slide, shown when a visitor hovers over its menu link. Only Tremont, Forte and Momentum have one, and Tremont's accepts the widest range of sub-page types. Slideshow indexes convert to Squarespace 7.1 portfolio pages during the version update.
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Site padding. Squarespace states that your site padding must be set to 0 for images to appear full-bleed in the Tremont family. Set Outer padding to 0 in site styles. The same tweak also fixes navigation links becoming unclickable where the page overlay sits over them.
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No. The Tremont family has neither a site sidebar nor a blog sidebar, and Squarespace's sidebar guide does not list it. The markup does not exist, so no CSS produces a real one. Put the content in the footer, a page banner, or an index sub-page instead.
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Yes, better than most. Squarespace converts grid and slideshow index pages into 7.1 portfolio pages and redirects the old index URL. Sub-page SEO titles and descriptions are discarded, and any disabled sub-page will not appear at all, so enable everything and export that data first.
Author Bio
I'm Walid Hasan, a Certified Squarespace Expert and Squarespace Circle Platinum Partner with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing high-performing websites. Over the years, I've had the privilege of building more than 2,000 Squarespace websites for clients around the world, always focusing on clean design, strong user experience, and conversion-driven results.
