How to Move Your Podcast Website from Squarespace

Before you start: find out where your audio lives

• Your audio is at a podcast host and Squarespace only shows the episodes. Then your RSS feed comes from that host, and the move is simple.
• Squarespace stores your audio and makes your feed from a blog page. That feed address is usually the blog page's address with ?format=rss at the end. Your audio and your feed then depend on your Squarespace site.

Step by step: move from Squarespace

1. Find your RSS feed address: in your host's dashboard, or the Squarespace blog page address with ?format=rss at the end.
2. Create your OnPodium site. Start a free trial at dashboard.onpodium.com and paste the feed. OnPodium imports every episode.
3. Pick a template and add your logo, colours and fonts.
4. Copy what you wrote by hand: your About text, contact details and other pages. Custom pages and the blog are on the Pro and Pro+ plans.
5. Check the site on its free onpodium.com address.
6. Point your domain to OnPodium. In the OnPodium dashboard, add your domain. The dashboard shows the DNS records to set at your domain registrar and checks them for you. When they are in place, OnPodium sets up https. DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to reach everyone.

If Squarespace stores your audio

Keep your Squarespace site running while it stores your audio and makes your feed. If you cancel it, the podcast apps cannot get your episodes. When you are ready to leave Squarespace completely, move your hosting: on the Pro+ plan, import your show into OnPodium, which copies your audio, and redirect your old feed to your new OnPodium feed address. If Squarespace has no redirect setting for your feed, give the new feed address to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the other apps you are listed in.

Keep Squarespace for the rest of your site

If your Squarespace site sells products or presents your business, you can keep it and run the podcast website on a subdomain, such as podcast.yourdomain.com.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will my podcast stop in the apps when I switch?

No, as long as the feed the apps use keeps working. That is why you keep Squarespace running while it stores your audio.

Will my old page addresses still work?

Not by themselves. OnPodium does not redirect old Squarespace addresses, so update your most important links.

Can I try OnPodium first?

Yes. Your site works on a free onpodium.com address during the 14-day free trial.