How to use a Blog template?
Blogs on the HubSpot CMS are made up of blog listing pages, and individual blog posts. All blog posts within a blog render using a single blog post template, and the various blog listing pages (main listing, author listing, tag listing) render using a single blog listing template.
In this KB following points have been covered.
- How to use a Blog template?
- How to Create new blogs in Hubspot?
- How to set Blog Listing Page?
- How to set a Blog post Page?
- How to change blogs' date formats?
- How to Create the new blog post?
The Blog Tool:-
Hubspot blog tool provides you all the settings, related to blogs like blog listing template, blog details page, Subscription details, language settings, social sharing by Hubspot and other SEO features.
Use this path for Hubspot blog settings:-
- Open your HubSpot Account
- Now click on the setting icons from the right top
- Please scroll down and select a blog from the website dropdown
- Here is the Full view of the HubSpot blog tool
How to Create new blogs in Hubspot?
To create a new blog in Hubspot, please follow these steps:-
- Open the blog settings
- Now click on the right top corner "Create new blog" button
- In this step, you have to add the details of your blog like
Blog Name
Blog Language
Blog Url (here you can add another domain also and please update slug according to your blog name)
- Click to next and save
- Now you can view your newly created blog from this Dropdown section
How to set Blog Listing Page?
The listing template display all the blog listing cards. in HubSpot, you can set a different template for listing and blog details. But you can just add two templates like one is for blog listing and the other is blog detail page.
Here are the steps to set the blog listing template.
- Open your Blog Settings
- Now select your blog, In which you want to change the blog template
- Here you can select the same template for the blog listing page or select a different template
For the Same Template:-
Please select the same template in both dropdown options.
For Different Listing Template
Please tick on the given checkbox and select the other template for listing only.
- Save the changes
How to set a Blog post Page?
When we click on any listing blogs it will redirect to blog post, where all the content is available of that particular listing. In HubSpot, we assign the template for the post.
Please follow these steps to add the blogs post:-
- Open the Settings
- Select the blogs, in which you want to change the blog post template
- Select your template
- Save the changes
How to change blogs' date formats?
In hubspot, we can change the date formats according to our template design and other need.
Here is the steps for template date format change.
- Open the blog settings from setting icons
- Select the blogs, in which you want to change the blog post template
- Click on the Date formate tab
- If you want to customize the date.
please refer to this link:- http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns
How to Create the new blog post?
After setting your template and other settings, your blogs ready to use. Now you have to just add the posts and they will add to your listing pages automatically.
Please follow these steps to create a new blog post:-
Follow the path to open the blog post dashboard
Marketing > Website > Blog
- Now select the blogs in which you create the blog post
- Click on the right top button and select the blog post
- Add your blog title
- Add the blog content
- Please click on the top setting button, and they will display the blog setting like blog title name, post description, select author name, and other advance options.
- Please Update the Feature Images of the post(this also reflects on listing cards).
- Publish the post