Preview Blog Author Page?

[Stephanie-OG]

I’ve realised that I’m not actually sure how to preview the blog author page on a blog template, is there a way to do so?

On the “Live preview with display options” you can toggle between Post View and Listing View:

And on the “Preview without display options” you can update the URL parameters. For example:

• Blog Listings: https://preview.hs-sites.com/_hcms/preview/template/multi?blog_listing=true&content_group_id=null&is_buffered_template_layout=true&portalId=12345&tc_deviceCategory=undefined&template_layout_id=123456789&updated=1551284796492
• Blog Posts: https://preview.hs-sites.com/_hcms/preview/template/multi?blog_listing=false&content_group_id=null&is_buffered_template_layout=true&portalId=12345&tc_deviceCategory=undefined&template_layout_id=123456789&updated=1551284796492

But how do you preview blog author pages? Is there a parameter I can add to the listings template like “blog_author=true”? Clients would like to see what it looks like before swapping out the templates.

Thanks!

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Stephanie O’Gay Garcia

HubSpot Design / Development

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[lscanlan]

Hi Stephanie,

There’s no way to do this currently so far as I know. We’re creating an issue for it in our GitHub instance, so hopefully they’ll add either a way to do this through the UI or through using a query parameter like you were fooling around with.

I didn’t see an idea post about this, so I’d encourage you to create one. The more visibility it gets, the better, and then we can push the GH issue a bit more.

- Leland

[Stephanie-OG]

Thank you! I went ahead and submitted the idea here: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Add-a-preview-for-for-Blog-Author-Page/idi-p/264212