Old image and title when republishing blog article

[EZachariassen]

Hi,

When I schedule an existing blog article for republishing, I also prepare and shedule a new social post - in this case Linkedin - using the Social tool in Hubspot. 

I paste the url for the blog article, and naturally, the existing title and photo appear in the preview.

As the scheduled time for the social post is 30 minutes after the scheduled time for the blog article, I would expect Hubspot to pick up the title and photo for the new/revised version of the blog article.

However, the old items are published.😣

Yes, normally I can do this manually, but there are situations where I'm busy performing other tasks or away on holiday... And most important, the schedule function gives my customers more bang for the bucks 😁

Grateful for any tip to solve this. 

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

@EZachariassen I can confirm that the social posts are pulling in the content from the blog at the time you create the social post, and even if you schedule it after your post is scheduled to be republished it isn't "smart" enough to check back to see if the content has changed.

The only way around this would be to update the blog post before you officially share the update via the scheduled post.

[PamCotton]

Hey @EZachariassen, Happy Friday!

Have you tried going to your blog post settings making minor changes to the metadata (like the title or description) and saving it? This often triggers a refresh of the cached data.

To our top experts, @Jnix284, and @Bruno_Teixeira any recommendations for @EZachariassen?

Thank you,

Pam

[EZachariassen]

Hi @PamCotton 

Thank you for your tip.

I've made several changes in this article, both meta description, tags, photo, H1 and H2.

Espen Z.

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

@EZachariassen I can confirm that the social posts are pulling in the content from the blog at the time you create the social post, and even if you schedule it after your post is scheduled to be republished it isn't "smart" enough to check back to see if the content has changed.

The only way around this would be to update the blog post before you officially share the update via the scheduled post.

[EZachariassen]

Hi Jennifer,

Thank you for your contribution.

Your answer concludes that there is no solution for this issue, so it's not quite correct to label this as "solved". Let's keep it open,

to motivate the Hubspot development team to fix a solution that makes it possible for the social post to pull in the content from the blog after republishing. 🙂

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

@EZachariassen you're welcome, I see your point about it not being "solved" and think more broadly that solved shows that there is an answer to the question - if you want to reach the product team, you need to share your feedback in the ideas discussion, they aren't directly monitoring every post across the community and this is the dedicated space for requesting product features and improvements. I would start by searching to make sure there isn't an existing idea you can add to and upvote, if there isn't then I recommend creating one - you can even come back and link it to this thread so others with the same question can find it easier and upvote (I'll upvote it too)