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A trackback ping is a method for establishing a link between two sites. For example, if you write a blog post, and someone else on the web writes about that post, they can send a trackback ping to your post and create a link between the entries.
Yes. While writing an entry in your Journal, you can send a ping by navigating to the "Options" screen and filling in a URL to trackback in the Send Trackbacks field.
Yes. Any entry in your Journal can receive trackback pings if this is enabled via your journal's configuration. Visitors can obtain your Trackback URL by clicking the my response is on my own website link under the comments box. This will direct them to the Trackback URL link they can use to ping your entry.
A podcast is a downloadable audio file associated with a blog entry. These audio files are meant to be downloaded by visitors and ported around on portable music devices or listened to directly from the computer. Podcasts are also embedded in your blog's RSS feed and can be read separately by special news feed readers that can read and play podcasts.
Yes.From the 'Extras & Timed Actions' tab while composing a Journal entry on Squarespace, you will see a field named 'Enclosure'. Click the file icon next to this field to select your podcast and attach it to your post.
Yes. The XML feed (i.e. RSS, Atom) for the podcast journal or journal podcast category can be used as a subscription link for people to subscribe to your podcast. See the RSS & Syndication section of the manual for more details
Yes. The Squarespace form builder component is available to all business level accounts. You can add this to your site using the guide for adding a page here, and choosing the form page from the list. After adding your page, you can add fields to create a custom form -- your data will be stored in an Excel spreadsheet in your File Storage.
Note: It is not possible to add this feature to your plan 'a la carte,' you would need the Business plan or higher.
Partially! Certain Squarespace business level accounts support our public registration component, which allows visitors to create accounts within your website. You can export email address lists for these visitors from the Audiences area within your Squarespace site manager.
collecting, email, lists, newsletter, signup Not yet! We currently do not have a Calendar object but it is in development and will be announced in the future. In the interim, you can use a third party service for this, such as Google Calendar, which provides the HTML code to embed a calendar into your page. More information about that is available here.
You can add this to any page of your site that's configured to accept code -- in the WYSIWYG editor click the "cog" icon and add your calendar code.
Yes -- and it's quite incredible! The Squarespace search module is available from the Architecture area of your site manager.
Squarespace provides a system for creating citations on blog posts -- and we call these citations 'references'. References can be used to cite sources for a blog post, and we incorporate the notion of a Trackback (see above) into our references feature in order to let other bloggers add to your post if they write about something you've published. This allows for a system that links sources, associated articles, and future content within one area.
You can remove references one of two ways.
Click the Website Management link in the upper left corner of your screen. Under Data & Media, click the File Storage link.
You can rename URLs within your site to give long URLs a shorter, simpler location for visitors accessing your pages.
