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Hi all,   in this moment we are trying to make some changes to our blog post template so we have created a new template to test.  The problem is that the only way to test our new blog post template is to apply it to all the articles published on our blog.    I think that it will be very useful to have the possibility to change the template on a single blog post as it is for Landing Pages.    Thanks for your help ...read more

Managing XML sitemaps in HubSpot can be really time-consuming for large websites.   Given that XML sitemaps are so important in ensuring a page is crawled and indexed quickly, here are a couple of suggested ways to help us manage these more efficiently.    Suggestion 1 We often find clients don't add a landing page to the XML sitemap after launch, because they don't realise it's not automatic like with blogs and website pages. So their content doesn't get indexed on Google quickly. However, making this automatic is also not ideal as thank you pages shouldn't be on the sitemap, because we don't want people being able to Google our downloadable content and bypass the forms.    So a selection box when creating new content in the landing pages tool, that specifies clearly if it is a LP or a thank you page would be a good workaround. Typically, LP's get added to the XML sitemap automatically, TYPs don't.   Suggestion 2 The ability to remove pages from the XML sitemap in bulk based on them living in a specific subfolder or on a subdomain. That way if there is a section of the site not intended for search engines, we don't have to manually go and remove each page from the sitemap after it is published.  ...read more

Currently, if a customer comments on a blog post, other readers or blog managers in HubSpot can reply to that comment. When doing so, however, the original poster does not receive a notification email letting them know that their comment has been responded to. As a result, community managers, blog editors, and other marketing folks working with the blog either have to hope that the original poster decides to come back, or take the additional step of emailing that contact to let them know that their comment has received a response.    When commenting on a blog post, ideally the commenter would be able to check a box indicating that they want to be notified of responses to their comment. ...read more

PLEASE give us the option to re-send blog notification emails for updated/republished posts. We've been blogging for over 8 years, so much of our content strategy is updating and re-publishing (in many cases this is a significant rewrite) of existing articles. Currently the automated Blog Subscriber Notification Emails and social notifications won't consistently go out for these updated articles, even if we Unpublish the article, make changes, and reschedule for a future publish date. HubSpot support has told multiple members of our agency team that these notifications won't go out since the post was previously published. However, we've found that not to be true (they go out sometimes; sometimes not), which further complicates the issue. We have to wait 15 min after every blog we publish to see if the notification goes out and manually schedule an email and social posts if it didn't. This is SUPER frustrating.   Please just give us an option when we hit publish that's a Yes/No to "Do you want to resend notification email and social notifications?" The current inconsistencies introduce SO MUCH RISK for us and our clients to look bad and miss out on lead conversions.  ...read more

We would love to see Instagram get added to the author bio section in the blogs for Hubspot.  Additionally, it would be great if it would tell us what text size we are using if we hightlight a certain area.  It can make formatting difficult when you have to just guess.      ...read more

Currently when you develop a blog template you can toggle between previews for the blog listings and posts, either in the "Live preview with display options" upper right hand corner or using the  "Preview without display options" and toggling the "blog_listing" parameter in the URL, e.g.:    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 However, because the blog author page is styled within the blog listings template, there's no way of previwing what the blog author page will look like until the blog is live.   It would be great if we could preview this, for example by adding a parameter like &blog_author=true   Sample use case: I developed a blog template for a client, but they wanted to see what the blog author page looks like before going live (they were reluctant to publish with unknowns).    As a workaround I published the template on a Test Blog on my portal to show them, but this isn't ideal!   Stephanie O'Gay Garcia HubSpot Design / Development Website | Contact ...read more

It is pretty cool how you check out an knowledge base artikel if somebody else edits it and that you can comment on it.   However, many people are nowadays used from Google Docs that they can work in the same document at the same time. Such an experience would be super nice in your editor too!   Why should you care? Well this one would be a true differentiator vs. Wordpress for collaborative teams!   Not sure if there are frameworks for this out there. I found https://www.codox.io/    ...read more

There has been a lot of chatter regarding using reporting services like SEMRush and Moz which will give you site audits. Usually, these reports give back information such as errors and issues One of the major errors I've seen reported on a lot of HubSpot sites are the Duplication errors for things such as:   Duplicate content: This is usually caused by the /page/1 not being properly redirected from the start. You have to create three directs total to fix that. Another cause for duplicate content is that listing pages do not have the ability to have a self-referencing canonical (which is fixed with some quick HubL in the blog template header). Duplicate Titles: Caused by all the paginated pages showing the same title. Duplicate Meta Descriptions: Same cause as above The first bullet, as mentioned, can be fixed with using URL mapping tool and HubL, the last two, however, we have zero control over. I know we can use JS to change the titles and meta's for the listing and Google's searching should be ok with checking those differences on the page. This can be tedious to do and a much better way would be to allow us to have a "Page Title Builder" in the SEO & Crawlers Tab. This can let us fi page titles and have them render server side rather than relying on JS to fix things and hoping they will be picked up during the next Google crawl.      I have created a mockup below for this (based on Yoast's SEO WP Plugin) to better explain a possible solution:     Also, I think it would be awesome to have Description fields added to the blog topic's so we can create custom Meta Descriptions based on those topics and not have to rely on just the default blog meta description or one that Google pulls automatically (which is usually the post excerpt of the most recent post for that page).  ...read more

Many news services require image credit captions on all images in their feeds, and we can't currently caption images in Hubspot Blog posts. ...read more