Elara - Squarespace Photography Template (7.1 Fluid Engine)
$399.00
Or 2 x $199.5 with a Payment Plan
Elara is a Squarespace 7.1 template designed for photographers whose work balances elegance and clarity.
Built for image-led storytelling, it gives portfolios room to breathe while still supporting services, journals, and light selling. The layout system allows imagery to lead, with pacing and composition shaping how work is encountered.
The structure is steady and adaptable. You can publish content, introduce sales pages or products, and expand your site over time without disrupting its coherence. Elara offers a thoughtful alternative to a custom build, shaped with clarity, continuity, and design integrity without the cost or timelines of a bespoke site.
At a Glance
— Portfolio, journal, sales page, shop, and links hub layouts
— Image-led layouts with subtle custom-coded editorial details
— Template guide, tutorials, and email support
Who it’s For
— Photographers offering services, commissions, or project-based work
— Image-led brands seeking an elegant, editorial presence
Elara is an editorial, modular Squarespace template designed to give photographers the confidence of a bespoke site.
It includes a complete set of pages for services, products, content, and sales, so your site isn’t constrained. Rather than relying on add-ons, it offers a cohesive structure that can accommodate new offerings while offering a conversion-led structure.
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I. Design
Elara is built around clean, editorial layouts structured on a considered grid.
Pages are spacious and restrained, designed to showcase work, writing, and offers with the kind of visual clarity more often associated with bespoke sites. The overall feel is composed and confident.
The template includes modular split sections, styled journal and shop layouts, and flexible page structures supported by custom-coded design details not available in native Squarespace.
Pages, sections, layouts, typography, colour, imagery, and copy can be adjusted so the site reflects your studio.
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II. System
Elara is designed as a complete working system, not a partial starting point.
It includes dedicated layouts for services, portfolios, journal content, products, sales pages, newsletters, and contact, allowing everything to live within a single, integrated site. This removes the need for later add-ons or structural workarounds.
Squarespace’s built-in tools manage enquiries, payments, bookings, and subscriptions in the background, while the page structure keeps content, services, and offers clearly organised. The result is a site that feels composed rather than fragmented, even as new offers are added.
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III. Strategy
Every layout in Elara is shaped with intention.
Content is organised to help visitors quickly understand what you do, how you work, and how to engage. Services, case studies, and offers are given clear hierarchy, with natural pathways toward enquiry, booking, or purchase.
Sales pages, service layouts, and product pages include space for contact forms, booking links, and newsletter sign-ups at points that feel considered rather than intrusive.
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IV. Support
Elara includes access to the Template Guide, which covers setup, customisation, launch, and foundational website strategy and SEO.
You’ll also have access to email support if questions arise. For those who want additional input, optional bookings are available for design refinements, custom code, strategy, or SEO.
As used by wedding and portrait photographers:
Studio Founded is a Squarespace Circle Platinum Member and Squarespace Marketplace Expert, trusted by over 1,000 founders.
★★★★★
5.0 average across Studio Founded Squarespace templates
The Template Pages
Explore how the template works in practice.
Demo access is available using the password: demo
Home
About
Shop
Sales Page
FAQs
Blog 1
Blog 2
Portfolio 1
Portfolio 2
Services
Contact
Coming Soon
Instagram Links
Site Credits
404
FAQs
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A drag-and-drop Squarespace 7.1 template built with an editorial layout system.
A complete suite of pages, including home, about, services, portfolios, journal layouts, sales pages, shop and product pages, FAQs, contact, links, coming soon, site credits, and a custom 404.
All demo imagery, fonts, and layouts are included and ready to be replaced with your own content and branding.
Access to the Template Guide, with tutorials, checklists, and step-by-step guidance for setting up and launching your site.
Email support from a Squarespace expert for 60 days after purchase. After this period, you’re still welcome to reach out. If a question requires more in-depth support, additional time can be booked.
An extended 12-month Squarespace trial.
25% off your first year of Squarespace, Email Campaigns, and Scheduling with any annual plan.
A free domain for your first year with an annual Squarespace subscription.
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Elara is designed for photographers and image-led creatives who want a clean, editorial presentation of their work.
It works particularly well for portrait, fashion, lifestyle, editorial, and fine art photography, as well as visual creatives presenting cohesive bodies of work. The structure supports thoughtful sequencing and visual flow, making it well suited to portfolios where tone and pacing matter.
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While Elara includes space for journals, services, and light ecommerce, the layout system remains image-first.
If your site requires long-form sales pages, complex funnels, dense educational content, or ecommerce-led browsing, a service-heavy or shop-first template may be a better fit.
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After purchase, you’ll receive a Contributor Invitation by email within 48 hours.
Accepting the invitation installs the template directly into your Squarespace account, where you can begin customising it using an extended 12-month trial.
Once your site is ready, you can choose a Squarespace subscription, connect your domain, and publish when it suits you. Selecting an annual plan includes 25% off your first year.
Once you’re happy with your site, you can choose a Squarespace subscription, connect your domain, and publish when you’re ready. Choose an Annual Subscription to receive a 25% for your first year.
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You’ll need a free Squarespace account to access your template, and a Core, Plus, or Advanced plan when you’re ready to publish.
You can explore Squarespace’s pricing plans here.
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You have two options.
If you’re happy to start fresh, you can cancel your existing subscription and purchase a new one for your template site. If your current plan is annual, we can contact Squarespace on your behalf to request a prorated refund, subject to their policy. Your domain can then be moved to the new site.
If you’d prefer to keep your existing subscription and SEO history, you can add our Install Package at checkout. We’ll install the template pages directly into your current site.
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Yes. Payment plans are available at checkout.
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Yes. With an annual Squarespace plan, you’ll receive:
25% off your first year
A free custom domain for your first year
25% off Squarespace Email Campaigns and Scheduling
An extended 12-month trial, instead of the standard 14 days
This gives you ample time to build and refine your site at a comfortable pace.
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Yes. Elara is a premium Squarespace template.
What makes it premium is the structure behind the design. Elara uses an editorial layout system with subtle custom-coded details that support pacing, hierarchy, and visual tone beyond native Squarespace.
The template is designed to feel closer to a bespoke site than a standard off-the-shelf option, while remaining flexible as your portfolio, services, and content take shape. Alongside the design, you’ll receive clear setup guidance and direct support throughout the process.
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You can customize fonts, colours, imagery, copy, layouts, and page order using Squarespace’s 7.1 editor.
The template includes modular sections and flexible page layouts that can be rearranged to suit your content. Custom-coded features extend Squarespace’s native functionality, with tutorials provided to guide you through using them.
The structure is intentional, but designed to support your brand rather than impose a fixed look.
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Yes. Your purchase includes access to the Template Guide, hosted in a Notion hub.
It includes planning tools, checklists, video tutorials, and content prompts, alongside guidance on foundational website strategy and on-page SEO. The aim is to help you build with clarity rather than guesswork.
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You’re welcome to email us with questions for 60 days after purchase. We typically reply within 1–2 business days, with the exception of particularly busy periods.
After the initial support window, you’re still welcome to get in touch. If a query requires more hands-on assistance, we may recommend booking support time.
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Yes, with the expectation of a short learning curve.
Liren is built on Squarespace 7.1 using Fluid Engine. The core layouts are drag-and-drop and straightforward to edit. Some features, such as split layouts or tabbed content, are custom-coded and may feel unfamiliar at first.
To support you, the template includes detailed tutorials, walkthroughs, and email support. With a steady, step-by-step approach, no prior technical experience is required.
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Yes. You can earn commission through our affiliate programme whenever someone purchases using your unique referral link.
You’re welcome to share the template with clients or your audience, or include it in your website footer or Site Credits page as a passive income stream.
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Each purchase includes a non-exclusive, non-transferable, single-seat licence. One template licence is valid for one website.
Designers may use templates for client projects, with one licence required per client site.
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We ask that a small credit and link remain on the Site Credits page. This can read “Template by Studio Founded” or “Design by Studio Founded” and is kept clean and discreet.
If you prefer, you can join our affiliate programme and replace the link with your referral URL.
Designers customizing a template for a client are welcome to include both credits, for example:
“Template by Studio Founded. Customisation by [Your Studio].”You must also retain any credits included for third-party code resources used to create the template.
Built With You in One Week
If you’d like this template brought to life by the studio, the One-Week Website is a creative-director-led build.
Over five focused days, we shape structure, pacing, hierarchy, and atmosphere, translating your brand and offers into a website that feels strategic, intuitive, and complete. Working from a Studio Founded template allows us to focus the build week on direction, storytelling, and refinement rather than starting from scratch.
This is not a simple installation. The process includes strategy, content structure, custom design decisions, subtle code refinement, and an SEO foundation, all shaped around how you want your work to be understood and experienced.
By the end of the week, you’ll have a finished website that reflects your direction, presents your work with clarity, and is ready to launch.
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