topic Internal private blog - what's the best way? in Blog, Website & Page Publishing

Internal private blog - what's the best way?

SWeller — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:55:00 GMT

I'm looking to create a Hubspot blog for internal use only, to share company news on a weekly basis.

I know I can hide the blog from the SERPs, however, is there a way to add password protection to it?

I believe you can do this on landing pages but I've read about not being able to do it on a blog, and it seems that other links (if doing it on a landing page) would still be accessible without password protection. I don't want external parties to access this information and so the ideal scenario would be a login...

Any solutions/alternative ideas that could work for this are much appreciated!

Re: Internal private blog - what's the best way?

alyssamwilie — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:56:29 GMT

Hey @SWeller

If you have CMS Hub Enterprise you can control audience access for blogs from Settings > Website > Blog using Memberships. If you do not have Enterprise you could do something like :

1. Create a List for the people you want to have access to the blog

2. Create a Login page using a plain ol Hubspot form that redirects to the blog

3. On the blog template add an if statement to only show the content if the current user is in that particular list.

{% if XXXX in request_contact.list_memberships %} Your Blog Content {% else %} You do not have access to this content. {% endif %}

Re: Internal private blog - what's the best way?

JessAtCNC — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:54:34 GMT

@alyssamwilie

We do not have CMS Hub Enterprise, so I am attempting to restrict access to a blog per your recommendation.

I have created a list for the people who should have access

I have created a page with a Hubspot that redirects to my blog when a use clicks the submit button

I have also added the IF statement to my blog template as the first lines of code, before {% set template_css

Unfortunately, this is not restricting access to the blog. Have I added the IF statement in the wrong spot?