Filtering Blog listing on standard tags

Developer Support CMS Development
1

Is it even possible to filter on standard tags within hubspot?
So I added text standard tags to my blog_post template

{% text "project_region" label="Enter region here", value="" %}

So in my blog I can now add text there and add a region to the blog.
On my blog lising page i can get this by doing

 {% for content in contents %}
 {{ content.widgets.project_region.body.value }}
 {% endfor %}

This will show the value’s.
So now I made a select with the input but I really don’t know how to filter this. With hubdb I would use a parameter query but how does this work with blog listings?
Option 2: Is it possible to create a hubdb row when a blog in this blog listing is created? this will give me alot of more options but here I dont even know where to start and if this is possible.

2

Hi, @BBecker1 :waving_hand: Thanks for the great question. I have a few questions to help our community better understand how they can assist you.

  • Are you trying to create a dynamic filtering mechanism on the blog listing page? When a user selects a specific region, only the blogs tagged with that region are displayed?
  • With the second option you’re considering, can you tell us more about why are you looking to create a HubDB row when a blog post is created? What additional functionality are you hoping to achieve?
  • Have you explored using HubSpot’s built-in blog topic tags for categorizing your blog posts? Or ruled them out?

Thank you! — Jaycee

3

Hello @Jaycee_Lewis,

  • Yes, I want to be able to filter by region and other tags that I have added in the same way. So when the user selects values from the dropdown, it should only display the blogs that have these tags.
  • Initially, I implemented this using only HubDB, and it worked great. However, I don’t want a content manager to fill 30 columns in a HubDB row just to create a blog. That’s why I created a new blog_listing. Now I’m wondering how I can achieve the same thing. Currently, I can only filter based on one tag instead of five.
  • Yes, I have tried using tags for categorizing, but I have multiple tags that I want to filter on, such as region, size, and solution. For each of these items, I want to have a dropdown. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get this to work using only blog tags.

Thanks for your response!