Manage your blog settings

Before you start creating and sharing content on your blog, you'll need to configure your settings. You can customize your blog's root URL, date format, comments options, subscription email settings and more.

• In your HubSpot account, click the settings icon settings in the main navigation bar.
• In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Website > Blog.
• Use the Select a blog to modify dropdown menu to choose the blog you want to customize, or click Create new blog.

• You'll see the following tabs for each of your blog settings:

General

You can create a new blog, delete a blog, or manage your basic settings for your blog. You'll fill in these settings before you start blogging and sharing your content.

• Blog name: the name of your blog. This is an internal name only, for your reference, in the event you have more than one blog in HubSpot.
• Blog header: the blog header appears in your blog templates if they use the public title tag.
• Page title: the title appears in the browser tab and in search engine results. It is recommended to keep the title below 70 characters.
• Meta description: the summary that likely appears in search engine results for your blog. Google, for example, may not use the meta description.
• Blog root URL: click the Blog root URL dropdown menu to select a domain for your blog to be hosted on (Marketing Hub Enterprise only). To add a subdirectory (e.g. /blog or /news), enter the subdirectory you want in the text field. This URL will be the URL of your blog listing page and the root URL of your blog posts.

Please note: if you change the Blog root URL, redirects will automatically be set up to forward any existing published blog content to their corresponding new URL. If there is no existing published blog content, redirects will not be created automatically.

Templates

In your blog's Templates settings, choose the template applied to your blog and blog listing page. You can also customize how your blog posts render on the listing page and add any customization to the HTML and CSS here.

• Use the Current template dropdown menu to choose the template applied to your blog posts and blog listing page.
• To use a different template for your blog listing page, click the Use custom template for blog listing page hyperlink. The text should now display Use same template for blog listing page.
• Check the Show summaries on listing page checkbox if you'd like your blog listing page to feature the content of your blog post up to the read more separator.
• Check the Use featured images in listing summaries to include the featured image of each blog post on your blog listing page.
• You can also customize the header or footer HTML of your blog or apply stylesheets here.

Learn more about how to customize your template settings.

Subscriptions

Your blog Subscriptions settings is where you can enable and edit your blog notification emails.

• Switch the Enable blog subscriber notification emails toggle on to enable blog email notifications.
• Use the toggle switch for each blog notification Frequency to enable or disable each email type. Keep in mind that your blog subscription form should reflect the same frequency options you enable in your blog subscriptions settings.

• Enter the number of blog posts features in each blog notification email.
• Use the checkboxes to indicate whether to feature summaries of your blog posts in the RSS feed or in your blog notification emails.

Learn more about how to manage your blog subscription form, emails, and settings.

Language

• Click the Language tab.

• Use the Language for dates dropdown menu or the search bar to choose the language for your blog date format.

Please note: the language you select in the Language for dates dropdown menu will override your domain's language. Once this is set, any blog posts created in that domain will contain the selected language's hreflang tag. This tag specifies to search engines the post's language and geographical targeting.