HubSpot Ideas

Anton

Drag & Drop functionality for Blog Posts

As all of you might know the current blog post is just a simple rich-text which is fine for general posting. But many of our customers want a flexible solution. Like multi-column grids with different content-types like images, text, accordions/toogles ... 

 

The only way to achive this right now is a custom module with all possible content types and pre-defined layouts and a repeater function. 

 

It would be awesome if the blog post would get the drag&drop functionality so that every customer/user could design each blog post to his needs. 

HubSpot Updates
Delivered
March 13, 2023 08:09 AM

Hello Community. 

 

Thank you for your feedback and incredible patience here. The team is happy to announce that this feature is now available to all. We will continue to make improvements to this feature over the next few months but if you have any questions or would like to provide feedback please send me a message. 

 

Thanks,

 

Yaisah

In Beta
November 21, 2022 10:24 AM

Hello Community. 

 

Thank you for your feedback and incredible patience here. A bit of an update here, we are currently in a small private BETA. The team is happy to announce that we will be ready for a public BETA soon for drag-and-drop functionality in the blog post editor. If you are interested in trying this out today or have any questions, feel free to send me a message.

 

We also want to make it clear that this beta does not currently allow reordering modules, resizing modules, or adding modules outside the rich-text area. Thanks for your patience as we work to make this feature awesome. We are looking forward to giving you all access soon.

 

Thanks,

 

Yaisah

In Planning
April 30, 2021 10:23 AM

Thank you for filing this idea!

 

Lot's of good comments in this thread. There are a few notable features we are either actively working on or thinking about now that will make the blog experience more friendly and flexible for content creators. 

 

For blog posts, we are working on making it possible to insert modules into the blog post body. While this will not allow full layout customization per post, it will allow a more complex post body with any default or custom modules. 

 

We are additionally working on making both the blog listing template (in development) and blog post template (in planning) editable within the content editor, which will make it easier for content creators to modify their blog post and listing templates (drag and drop modules, edit modules fields, etc.). 

 

I will report back when we have any public betas on these features!

 

Thanks

 

Will

40 Replies
danielrnorris
Contributor | Elite Partner

YES!! So glad you posted this as I was about to. Though I would also add the Blog Listing Page as for some reason it is the same where it is quite locked into the theme you are using. Unlike the rest of your Main Website pages. Hoping this can be a change that comes sooner than later as the blog is easily my least favorite element of my own website and the CMS as a whole. Would make a world of difference to have this updated.

KCiliberto
Participant

I want to second what everyone else has said. Not having a drag/drop editor for blogs is a HUGE miss. 

SMetcalf
Participant

100% agree - furthermore, I think the idea of the 'blog' should really be repackaged as 'collections'. As it can be used for so many things beyond a blog. 

For example, the site I'm creating wanted a listing page of the 5 core services and then a separate page for each service. Each service has language and an image that should be consistent wherever listed in the entire site. If I were to just make separate pages I would have to manually add that language and image, whereas if I use the 'blog' and make each service a 'post', I can create the listing page, create a 'post' page, and then if I ever list them anywhere else in the site, I can use a loop to cycle through the posts and grab the language and image. 

The same is true for work 'case studies'. The only problem I'm running into there is that unlike the 'services' example above where I could get away with a static template for each service,  case study 'posts' can be wildly different from one another, some might use 2 column image rows, others might use videos, etc. Not having the ability to drag and drop really complicates things. I'm now having to code a really complex module (MOAM, mother of all modules) that can handle all types of content. Feels extremely dirty. 

NPeters
Contributor

Can we fast track this already.

 

As SMetcalf suggested we can start by loosing the 'blog' label, and call it 'collections'. I have a very similar use case. Our content layouts across a content type varies. It makes for a more engaging website experience.

 

Pages are fine for a few top level pages, but is a really cumbersome way to manage content in a so called CMS. Personally I think this approach that is loosely based on Wordpress seems like a good familar approach, but even wordpress has Switched to a drag and drop system for its posts.

In a world where current CMS's are building with highly flexible layout options, HubSpot CMS is dated.

My points of reference are October CMS, Expression Engine & Directus Headless CMS

CatBHubspot
Participant

It would equally be nice to choose between two or three "types" of Blog Templates dedicated to certain types of contents...
Video
Infographie
Event presentation
Product launching....


Instead of being required to select a single template for the entire Blog

wspiro
HubSpot Product Team

Thank you for filing this idea!

 

Lot's of good comments in this thread. There are a few notable features we are either actively working on or thinking about now that will make the blog experience more friendly and flexible for content creators. 

 

For blog posts, we are working on making it possible to insert modules into the blog post body. While this will not allow full layout customization per post, it will allow a more complex post body with any default or custom modules. 

 

We are additionally working on making both the blog listing template (in development) and blog post template (in planning) editable within the content editor, which will make it easier for content creators to modify their blog post and listing templates (drag and drop modules, edit modules fields, etc.). 

 

I will report back when we have any public betas on these features!

 

Thanks

 

Will

GWaw
Participant

I actually got confused this was already a feature since you can create a template that allows its user to drag n drop modules. But it wasn't immediately obvious that it's for landing pages only.

I would definitely love to use modules, templates, and themes at the blog.

NPeters
Contributor

I would also like to add, keep the API docs updated as you implement please 🙂

LRobinson6
Member

I want to second what everyone else has said. I'm specifically looking for an image gallery function I can use in my blog without requiring coding. Not having a drag/drop editor for blogs isn't as user friendly as you would expect with Hubspot.

 
 
 
CALLIEVI
Member

hello @wspiro any news about this ? 🙂 

Pingo
Contributor | Partner

Would be great to get the possibility for non-developers to add sections and modules on a blog page.

Cheers,

Stefan

 

lindahl
Contributor | Diamond Partner

Up on this, would definitely help non developers in every way.

KKiesl
Member

Hey, is there an update on this task? Since the last one was a year a go?!
Not having the editing option in the blog post is really not customer friendly!
I hope you guys are still working on that problem?

Best regards

Katrin

FoodNotify-DK
Member

much needed 👆

jrstaton
Participant

Has there been any progress on this topic yet?

Jnix284
Most Valuable Member | Diamond Partner

ability to add modules from the theme to the blog post template would allow marketers to have the most flexibility with designing their own blog post layouts.

JCStevens
Member

Just being able to place images outside of the inline text box would be a vast improvement! Please consider prioritizing this functionality, it's commonplace for any other blogging platform.

STaylor30
Member

Please create at least some module editing in the blog! It's crazy you can't add a form to collect emails in a blog post or have any basic customization in each post without code.

DKR91
Participant

Need this! Especially for clients who are doing there own content and marketing. 

teecee2
Member

Has there been any more update on this? The ability to use custom modules within the blog post copy is so necessary.