For Today ideas

I will lock down features as we design   

 

 This will be my For Today section where I will be uploading daily content... I would also like to archive past days/weeks/ months before content... I will be having recurring content  each week  for example, a column on this week in EQ, each week a site feature explainer, every month a new essay, every month a book review, every month a podcast, every month a Q and A session, every Friday an encouraging post for the weekend ahead..... people will be joining site at different times want to be able to have them start from the beginning       

Right now, the page is still in placeholder form: it shows a “For Today” heading, an unfinished video block, a “Yesterday” heading, and then another unfinished video block. In its current state, it does not yet give members a usable path into daily content, past content, or a structured “start from the beginning” experience.

My strongest recommendation is this: do not make “For Today” a manually edited static page for current and yesterday’s content. Instead, make it a curated dashboard page that pulls from a hidden or member-only For Today Blog. That way, the dashboard always feels current, while your actual posts live in a proper archive system that members can browse by date, series, and topic. 

Here is the structure I would build.

What “For Today” should really be

Think of For Today as having two layers.

The first layer is the live front page: the newest post, this week’s featured recurring content, and quick links into the archive. The second layer is the organized content engine underneath it: every daily post published as a blog entry with categories, tags, and dates attached. That way, a person joining today can still experience the site as “today’s content” while also having an easy route to the beginning. Squarespace’s blog collections, category/tag filters, summary blocks, and archive blocks are well suited to that kind of setup.

The page layout I would use

At the top, I would keep a simple hero:

For Today
A daily home for the emotional side of tennis — today’s message, this week’s features, and the full FBTL archive.

Then a short line under it:

New here? Start from the beginning.
Button: Start Here
Button: View This Week
Button: Browse the Archive

That “Start Here” button is crucial because your members will not all join at the same time. It gives latecomers a clean onboarding path instead of forcing them to enter the stream mid-conversation. If you later move more of this into a course structure, Squarespace’s course pages can serve guided lesson experiences with progress tracking, but your daily stream is still better managed as a blog/archive system.

The content zones on the page

I would divide the For Today page into six visible zones.

1. Today’s Post

This should be the main featured item at the top. One card, one title, one short excerpt, one image or video, and one button: Read / Watch Today’s Post. Do not also show “Yesterday” here. Let the archive system handle that. Your current placeholder uses separate headings for “For Today” and “Yesterday,” but once the page becomes a real content hub, “Yesterday” should simply live in the recent archive feed instead.

2. This Week at FBTL

This should be a horizontal strip or grid showing the recurring weekly items. Since you already know your rhythm, I’d make those recurring franchises visible and predictable:

This Week in EQ
Site Feature Explainer
Friday Weekend Reset
Newest Essay
Newest Book Review

Squarespace summary blocks can pull filtered content from one blog page by category or tag, which is exactly what you need for recurring series like these.

3. Start From the Beginning

This deserves its own section, not just a button in the hero. I would include three entry points:

New to FBTL? Start Here
A hand-picked first sequence of 7–10 posts explaining the site, your philosophy, and the foundational ideas.

First 30 Days at FBTL
A curated track for new members.

Foundations Collection
A filtered archive of your most evergreen introductory posts.

This is the section that solves your “people will join at different times” problem. Instead of forcing all members into the live feed only, you give them a guided starting shelf. Squarespace summary blocks can surface just those tagged foundational posts.

4. Browse by Series

This is where your recurring content becomes easy to follow. I would create categories or tags for each recurring series, then let users jump straight into them.

Suggested recurring series labels:

This Week in EQ
Site Feature Explainer
Monthly Essay
Monthly Book Review
Friday Encouragement
From the Archive
Barry’s Picks

Squarespace supports categories and tags on blog posts and lets summary blocks and archive blocks display content filtered by those labels.

5. Browse by Time

This is where you archive by day, week, month, and year.

I would not show a giant endless feed only. I would add:

This Week
Past Weeks
By Month
By Year

Squarespace archive blocks can group blog content by date, and Squarespace’s own guidance also discusses creating indexes organized by month or year.

6. Featured Archive / Best of FBTL

This section is important because not every daily post is equally foundational. I would create a curated evergreen shelf:

Best of FBTL
The 10–20 pieces every member should see, regardless of when they joined.

That gives you a way to separate “valuable live publishing” from “essential foundational reading.”

The publishing system underneath it

This matters more than the page design. I would run For Today as a single blog collection underneath the page, and every daily item would be one post. Each post would get:

a date,
a primary category,
a series tag,
and optionally a module/foundation tag.

Squarespace’s blog/category/tag system is built for exactly this kind of structured content organization.

I would use categories for the broad content type and tags for the finer sorting.

Suggested categories

Daily Post
This Week in EQ
Site Feature Explainer
Essay
Book Review
Friday Encouragement
Start Here
Archive Pick

Suggested tags

week-1, week-2, week-3
month-1, month-2
foundations
competition
parents
coaches
flow
fear
frustration
inner-voice
role-model
daily-routines

That gives you both editorial control and long-term discoverability. Squarespace summary blocks can then pull, say, only posts tagged foundations or only posts in the Book Review category.

How to let people “start from the beginning”

This is the key design problem, and I think the best answer is to create a parallel path that sits beside the live feed.

I would create a Start Here page with this sequence:

Welcome to FBTL
How to Use This Site
What FBTL Is Really About
The Emotional Reality of Tennis
The Tennis Journey
The Inner Voice
Daily Routines
How to Use For Today

Then on the For Today page, make that sequence constantly visible. New members should never have to guess where “the beginning” is. They should see it the moment they arrive.

A simple way to do this in Squarespace is to tag those posts start-here or foundations, then surface them with a filtered summary block. Squarespace’s documentation explicitly notes summary blocks can filter by category or tag.

How I would handle recurring content

Because your recurring content is so consistent, I would make each one feel like a recognizable column.

This Week in EQ should always have the same thumbnail style and title format.
Site Feature Explainer should always clearly say what part of the site it is teaching.
Monthly Essay should feel like a premium long-form feature.
Monthly Book Review should feel like a distinct shelf.
Friday Encouragement should become a ritual, almost a locker-room sendoff.

That consistency helps members understand the rhythm of the site and know what to expect. With Squarespace, the cleanest way to support that is to publish each as a blog post with a consistent category/tag structure, then surface each series with filtered blocks on the page.

My ideal page outline for you

Here is the page in order.

Hero
For Today
Daily emotional-intelligence training for the real tennis journey.
Buttons: Start Here | Today’s Post | Archive

Section 1
Today’s Post
Featured newest post with image/video and excerpt

Section 2
This Week at FBTL
A 3–5 card strip:
This Week in EQ
Site Feature Explainer
Friday Encouragement
Newest Essay
Newest Book Review

Section 3
New Here? Start from the Beginning
A short introductory paragraph and 3 cards:
Start Here
First 30 Days
Foundations Collection

Section 4
Browse by Series
Tiles for each recurring category

Section 5
Browse by Time
This Week | Past Weeks | By Month | By Year

Section 6
Best of FBTL
Curated evergreen highlights

Section 7
From the Archive
Recent older posts, maybe 6–9 items

That is enough structure without making the page feel too busy.

The most important design principle

Do not make the page feel like a scrapbook of whatever went up recently. Make it feel like a daily newspaper with a library behind it.

That means:
the top is current,
the middle is curated,
the bottom is navigable history.

Right now the page is still only a placeholder shell, so this is the right time to build that logic in from the start.

WordPress versus Squarespace for this specific page

For For Today alone, you can absolutely build a much better version inside Squarespace using a blog collection plus summary/archive blocks. Squarespace’s own documentation supports all the key pieces: blog collections, categories/tags, archive blocks, summary blocks, and course pages for more guided content.

If you eventually want this whole thing to become more like a true member portal with richer dashboards, custom filtering, stronger search, and tighter learning-path logic, WordPress will still give you more flexibility. But for the immediate structure of For Today, I would first fix the architecture, because the architecture matters more than the platform.

My strongest recommendation

Build For Today as:
a curated homepage pulling from a hidden member blog

Then create:
Start Here,
This Week,
Series archive,
and Monthly archive paths.

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