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Squarespace embed vs video blocks9/12/2023 Since the Bandsintown Block is designed to match the look of your site, it's a great alternative to any third-party widget. Visitors can RSVP to your shows and buy tickets through links in the block. The Bandsintown Block allows you to display tour dates from your Bandsintown profile. Since the OpenTable block is designed to match the look of your site, it's a great alternative to OpenTable's reservation widget. You can use the OpenTable to add restaurant reservation booking to your site. You can use the Calendar Block to display content from an events, blog, gallery, products, or album page. The Calendar Block organizes content collections into a calendar sorted by day. If it detects certain patterns in how you entered the text, it transforms it into different sections of the menu. Squarespace scans the text you add in the menu block for certain formatting. pdf menus on a site, which aren't always as SEO-friendly as on-page content. This is a great alternative to embedding. You can use the Menu Block to display your restaurant's menu on your site. The code block is a good option if you want to embed a third-party feature on your site. The Code Block allows you to add custom code to a page or display code on a page. It's common to place this block in a sidebar. This is a great way to help visitors discover content by publication date. When a visitor clicks a month link in the block, they'll see all items published in that month. The Month List Block creates an index for your blog, event, gallery, or products page content organized by year and month. When a visitor clicks a category link in the block, they'll see all items in that category. The Category List Block creates a link index of categories from one blog, event, gallery, or products page. Clicking an author's name will display a sorted list of their content. The Author List Block displays links to authors who've contributed content to the selected page. It's common to place this block in sidebar. This is a great way to help visitors discover content by interest or topic. When a visitor clicks a tag link in the block, they'll see all items with that tag. Linked text, bold, italic, alignment, bulleted or numbered lists, indentation, and font size, etc.The Tag List Block creates a link index of tags from one blog, event, gallery, or products page. Has nested categories like the shop collection pageĭisplays the video at the top of it’s own page, full screen heightĪ minimally designed video player has everything most people want, and removes the “junk/clutter” to viewers can focus on the video without distractionsĭescription area does seem to have near-full rich text formatting options Things to note…Įasy to add new videos, whether uploading directly to your site or adding from YouTube or Vimeo Here’s what I think about this new feature so far: it’s a GREAT start, but it does lack some things I know people will want (myself included). “Private” videos are literally private to you, so make sure you don’t use that setting if you plan to put the video on your Squarespace website. Vimeo does have paid plans, but you can ‘privately’ host videos on YouTube if you mark the video as “Unlisted” which will keep it out of the search results, but still allow you to embed & share your videos outside of YouTube. add a Video Block: Edit a page or post, click an insert point, and select Video from the menu. ![]() If you want to use the new feature but don’t want to pay for yet another thing ––and you don’t need to lock off the content behind a paywall (ie: subscription), then host your videos on YouTube or Vimeo and paste in the share link, just like you’re used to in Video blocks. Then, copy the link to your video on the Embed Video tab. Of course you always save a little when you pay annually. The current pricing can be found near the bottom of the page, but Members Area plans start at $10/monthly (5 hours of video hosting), and go up from there. You can upload up to 30 minutes of HD video for free, but after you reach that threshold, you will have to buy/add a Members Area plan that includes hosting time in increments of 5 hours, 20 hours, or 50 hours. ![]() Squarespace has just announced –scratch that– they’ve just dropped a huge feature-bomb on us– that they now allow us to host video directly on our sites!īefore you jump up & down though, as with all new things there are pros and cons to this, so let’s dive in before you start building your new video library!Ĭreating a video library on Squarespace Do I have to pay for hosting on Squarespace? I’m just gonna say it: it’s about damn time.
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