Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places Widgets for Squarespace

A few weeks ago, Squarspace founder and president Anthony Casalena announced some planned enhancements to the web's best publishing and blogging platform. Since then they've quietly rolled out their new Locations social widget, giving you the ability to integrate your Foursquare, Gowalla and/or Facebook Places stream into your Squarespace blog or website. Today we'll take a look the new Squarespace Locations widget and how to install it.

Installing the Foursquare/Gowalla/Facebook Places Squarespace Widget

Installing the new Locations widget on your Squarespace couldn't be easier. As with all Squarespace functionality, there's an intuitive setup process followed by a comprehensive set of configuration options. To add a Foursquare, Gowalla or Facebook Places widget on your site, simply follow these five easy steps:

1. Log in to you Squarespace website and enter the Structure Editing modeAccess the Structure mode from the right side of the control panel ribbon.
2. Select Add widget from a new or existing sidebar sectionAdd a new widget to your sidebar.
3. Navigate to the Social Widgets tab and then select the Location widgetThe Location widget is within the Social Widgets tab of the Add Widget interface.
4. Configure your location service by selecting your app and then signing in through Squarespace's APIClick on the icon to sign in via API to your location service.
5. Use the dead-simple Squarespace controls to configure and customize your location widget. Once done, save and enable your new widget. That's it. You're all done.Explore all the configuration options to suit your liking.

Adding Location Based Services to Your Squarespace Website

Intuitive, versatile and awesome. The new Squarespace Location widget passes the test for all new Squarespace functionality. Take a few minutes to install Foursquare, Gowalla and/or Facebook Places on your blog or website and then come back and tell me what you thought about the process in the comments below. 

Comments

[Jeffrey Herr]

Hmm... Backwards for me. I work with companies that use SquareSpace. What they want to do is have a stream showing who checked in at their location. Anything like that in the works?

[Josh Braaten]

Ooh good question, Jeffrey. I agree that yours is a very common use case and I hope Squarespace allows us to do that with the location widget. I can't currently get the locations widget to do what you're proposing though, nor do I know if Squarespace plans to build that feature into the widget. Great idea.