Tips and limitations when sharing your content to social platforms.

Use the built-in share option to push new content to your preferred social media profiles as you publish it to your site. This is a great shortcut, cutting down the time of manually opening your social profiles and copying and pasting links.

Note: This isn't an automatic sync between Squarespace and your social networks. Repeat the steps to publish and share your content for every post you want to publish.

Before you begin

• To share content, you have to connect your accounts and select a push target if necessary first. It's not possible to share content without connected accounts.
• To ensure you connect your site to the correct account, log out of your social accounts before you begin. If you're logged in, the connection will default to that account.

What content you can share and where

You can push the following Squarespace collection items to these social media platforms:

	Facebook	LinkedIn	Pinterest	Tumblr
Blog Posts	✓	✓	✓	✓
Events	✓	✓	✓	✓
Products	✓	✓	✓	✓
Album tracks*	✓	✓	✕	✓
Gallery pages*	✓	✓	✓	✕

* Album pages and gallery pages are only available for Squarespace version 7.0.

To share content to a different platform, or re-share after pushing, manually share the URL.

Tip: Create professional quality content with the Marketing Kit in the iOS Squarespace app. Then export it and share on your site or on your social media platforms.

Limitations

Platform	Limitations
Facebook	Facebook doesn't allow third-party tools like Squarespace to share content with personal Facebook Profiles on someone's behalf. You can still push Squarespace content to a connected Facebook Page (typically used for businesses), or you can share links manually in a Facebook post.  To learn about the difference between Profiles and Pages, visit Facebook's documentation.
LinkedIn	We currently support pushing content to personal LinkedIn profiles only. To share your site's content on your company's LinkedIn page or business account, you can post the link directly in LinkedIn.
Pinterest	Blog posts and products must have featured images to display on Pinterest.
Tumblr	Image blocks and video blocks don't display in the dashboard view on Tumblr. Image blocks appear as an External Image button in the dashboard view, and video blocks appear as rectangular icons. Both types of blocks display in full on the public view of a Tumblr blog. The following content from blog posts will display on Tumblr: Text blocks Image blocks Markdown blocks Quote blocks Video blocks To display multiple images in a blog post, use multiple image blocks.

Connect your accounts

Before you can push content to your social media accounts from Squarespace, you'll need to connect your accounts:

1. Open the Connected accounts panel.
2. In the Connected Accounts menu, select the account you'd like to add.
   Log in with your account name and password, and then click Authorize. This step varies by service. For more help, visit the guide on the specific service.
3. For Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, ensure Show Push Option is checked.
4. For Tumblr, select a Primary Blog from the drop-down menu.
5. For Facebook and Pinterest, select a push target.
6. Create a default post format to customize the text of the post.
7. Click Save.
8. Repeat these steps for each account you want to connect. 

Select a push target (Facebook and Pinterest)

For Facebook and Pinterest, select a Push Target from the drop-down menu in each connected account's settings. This tells us where to post if you have multiple Facebook Pages or Pinterest boards.

For Facebook, select a Facebook Page (for example, your business or store's official page). For Pinterest, select a board. You can only set one Page or board for pushing content on each account.

If you don't choose a Page or board, your content won't push to the account. For Facebook, the Push Target drop-down is limited to 25 accounts.

Create a default post format

You can customize what appears in all posts to a social profile in its Default Posting Format field. Some text always displays by default in post previews. Customizing your default post format adds text in addition to the post preview.

This helps keep your posts consistent, but you can also customize each post individually when pushing to add more details. Repeat this step to customize each social profile where you publish your content.

Use a combination of custom text and the variables below to format your posts:

• %t - The title of the item you're sharing
• %a - The author of the item you're sharing
• %u - The URL of the item you're sharing

You must leave at least one variable in the field to push your post to most services, even if you choose not to customize the format. If you're using multiple variables, add spaces between them so the posts format correctly.

Here's how the formatting "%t %a %u" will appear on Facebook:

• Red - Title (%t)
• Yellow - Author (%a)
• Green - URL (%u)

Pinterest best practices

When sharing with Pinterest, you don't need to include the %u variable because the post's URL pushes automatically.

Publish and share your content

After connecting your accounts and customizing your default posting formats, you're ready to start sharing your content as you publish it. How you push content to social media depends on the type of collection item you're sharing:

To share an item again on the same social network, manually share its URL. It isn't possible to post the same item multiple times using the push method. To learn what displays when you manually share a URL, visit How content displays in social posts.

To learn more about editing content, visit our guides on blog posts, products, events pages, gallery pages, and album pages.

Troubleshooting

Content is pushing to the wrong account

If you connected your site to the wrong account, click on the account in the Connected Accounts panel, then click Disconnect. In a separate tab, log out of your social account, then follow the steps in this section reconnect it.

Content is wrong on Facebook

If you're seeing the wrong featured images or descriptions in Facebook posts from Squarespace, there's a chance Facebook doesn't have the most updated information. For help, visit Troubleshooting Facebook sharing issues.

Content isn't posting to Pinterest

Blog posts and products must have featured images to display on Pinterest.

Content isn't appearing on Tumblr

Certain block content, such as gallery blocks, won't display in blog posts pushed to Tumblr. Image blocks and video blocks won't display in the dashboard view of Tumblr. For more details on how content appears when shared on Tumblr, visit Using Tumblr with Squarespace.

More social sharing options

To explore different ways you can use social media with your site, visit Understanding social sharing with Squarespace.

Just a few of the options are: 

• Add Pinterest Save buttons over products and other content.
• Add icons that link to your social profiles.
• Add a like button to pages using code provided by Facebook.