topic Re: Related pages in Blog, Website & Page Publishing

Babak — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:27:41 GMT

Hello,

So basically we used "Website pages" as blog posts (the previous developer did it), so now we have lots of Website pages in which they act as separate pages like (home page, contact us, etc.) and blog posts too, but the blog posts have different URL slug, the content creator manually but /blog/ before each URL.

So now we need a related posts section below each post,

I saw this article

https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/cms/guides/creating-a-related-post-listing

and functions page too

https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/cms/hubl/functions

But it seems there is no straight way to solve this problem since the page doesn't support Tag too.

Can you please suggest me a solution? even if we can't figure out the "related post" it's ok to show recent posts ( I guess with following URL /blog/ it's possible but don't know how)

Re: Related pages

Josh — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:39:24 GMT

Hi @Babak,

It sounds like you are planning on keeping the current setup of the blog posts as pages vs moving them to the blog post structure. If this is the path you are going I do believe that you will have struggles accomplishing what you are trying to do.

I would highly recommend moving this content into the blog hosting functionality within HubSpot for a variety of reasons:

Use of tags to serve related content
Use of tags to improve user experience
Archiving of blog posts (automatically)
Search Engine Optimization
- With the appropriate structured markup on the templates, Google will understand that these are articles/blogs vs website pages
Reporting
- The reporting tools in HubSpot will allow you to see what visitors/contacts/customers were derived from blog post visits vs website pages
  - This will be unclear if the blogs aren't using the blog functionality

Josh

Re: Related pages

Babak — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:53:10 GMT

Thank you for the quick response, so it seems there is no easy way to keep moving forward like this, and do you have any suggestions on how we can change the type of pages to the posts? Because in WP we have a kind of "Type switcher" or something like this, do you have something like that so we can automate it or should we do it manually one by one?

Re: Related pages

Josh — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:06:14 GMT

Hi @Babak,

I am not aware of a way to automate it, but you may be able to export and then import.

https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account/export-your-content-and-data

You may lose some of the formatting and structure in this fashion depending on the structure of your pages vs your blog post template.

Josh

Re: Related pages

Babak — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:08:34 GMT

Thank you and have a great week Josh!

Re: Related pages

SCrooks — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:08:07 GMT

Thats really good.