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Apr 25

How to embed podcasts on your Squarespace site with RadioPublic

You’ve got something to say about podcasts and you want your readers to hear the shows for themselves. RadioPublic’s user-friendly embed player has you covered. Just look at (or better yet, listen to) this beauty:

OK, great — but how do you get these show and episode embeds into your Squarespace site? It’s a pretty straightforward copy-and-paste job, but if you’ve never added raw HTML code into Squarespace before, here are the step-by-step instructions:

Psst… want to embed podcasts on a different platform? Here are the instructions for Medium, Wordpress, and all other publishing platforms.

1 First, if you haven’t already done so, get the embed player code for the show or episode you want to add to your post.

2 Next, while you’re in Edit mode in Squarespace, click to insert a block and select the Embed block from the “basic” menu.

3 Once the Embed dialog appears, click on the </> icon.

Clicking on the </> switches you into the code view.

4 A window labelled “Embed Data” should appear. Paste the embed player code here, then click “Set.”

5 Click “Apply” on the Embed dialog, if it’s still floating around, and the podcast player should appear in your page.

6 Once you’re finished editing your page, click “Save,” and you’re good to go.

That’s it! You’re now a podcast embedding wizard. Pretty sure I can hear your readers applauding from here.

I mean, I assume Morgan Freeman reads your stuff.

If you run into any problems, drop us a line at help@radiopublic.com and we’ll do our best to help you out.