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How to turn text links into real links on #squarespace

I ran into this issue:

We upload videos to Tubemogul, they distribute our video to blip.tv, and they finally convert it and then cross post to our squarespace site. Crazy workflow but it works and the nice thing is I need to upload it only once to get it to numerous video platforms with a single click.

The drawback is that Tubemogul doesn’t allow for adding HTML, because all the sites other than blip.tv don’t allow HTML. So I just add in required links as text and deploy the video. Blip.tv now takes the text 1:1 and hands it over to Squarespace. Now we have shownotes with un-clickable links and this is bad. Well, just as long until I realized that Squarespace lets you insert javascript.

All you need to do is downloading the javascript from: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/10958 (don’t install it into Greasemonkey, just save the .js file). Without any modification, upload it to you Squarespace File-manager and then switch to structure editing mode. Now scroll down to the bottom and select “edit website footer”. Into the HTML box, enter the following line at the very beginning:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://YOURDOMAIN/storage/PATH/SCRIPTFILENAME.js”></script>

Of course you need to change the path to the .js file you uploaded, that can be found using the file manager.

Click save. That’s it. Amazing!