Squarespace

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Squarespace is a content hosting service (paid) that provides services such as blogging and domain hosting.

Squarespace is somewhere between a silo like WordPress.com and a full fledged web hosting service.

How To

IndieAuth with rel-me links

@@ need instructions for SquareSpace V7 @@

Your own domain

• General instructions

Export your data from Squarespace

Content in a Squarespace site can be exported as XML:

Can I export my site? - yes you can. "The file exported will in be in an .xml format that can be imported into a Wordpress installation."

Individual pages can also be read as JSON:

For example, the page at http://developers.squarespace.com can be read as JSON at http://developers.squarespace.com?format=json and at http://developers.squarespace.com/?format=json-pretty

The JSON responses for Squarespace pages include the HTML rendered text of the body of the page, together with a limited set of metadata.

Friendly

• 2015-03-07 microformats2 and webmention support requested (tweet) by Ashton McAllan

  Hey @squarespace. Any plans to support mf2 and webmentions?

  • Open to it: 2015-03-07: @Squarespacehelp:

    @acegiak Not at this time but we're happy to submit a feature request for this to our developers!

Principles Support

During the 2018 Superbowl, Squarespace had several ads featuring Keanu Reeves that were very supportive of IndieWeb principles:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnhN2Rzaqc - "Make It With Keanu Reeves"

  When passion meets inspiration, an obsession is born. Hold on to this dream and tell the world. All you need is a domain and a website from Squarespace. The world is waiting. Make it.

  • (more quotes needed from the video(s) that advocate specific indieweb principles at least in meaning, if not directly by use of similar language)
  • shown at events/2018-02-07-homebrew-website-club
• ...

Issues

• The 'gallery' page type is limited and not very customisable. For instance, you can't use it to tell a rich photo story easily tommorris on IRC 2014-12-04

Historical Issues

• Squarespace uses hash-based URLs to link from folder pages to content pages (replicated with both text and gallery pages). Hash(bang) URLs are inherently brittle, add complexity and go against the advice of the W3C. I don't want the "wrong" URL being shared. tommorris on IRC 2014-12-04

Historical Version 6

The following How-tos were for a previous version of SquareSpace and no longer apply.

IndieAuth with rel-me links v6

How to setup Web sign-in on your Squarespace website:

• 2013-08-26 How to set up Web Sign In on your @squarespace website

Multiple Domains v6

• Multiple domains

See Also

• silos
• hosting
• Web sign-in
• http://immanagers.com/web-design/squarespace-template-id-reference-table/
• https://www.squarespace.com/keanu/ - Keanu on Squarespace, site example in Squarespace Superbowl LII ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnhN2Rzaqc "Pick the right domain name... select a template... choosing photos... tell the world your vision... "