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Linking Hubspot Blog onto Your WordPress Website

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Hubspot blogs improve your content and lead generation.  However, if you have a website on the WordPress platform and wish to keep your blog link there, you will need to re-direct to an external (Hubspot) page.  While Hubspot easily allows you to redirect to both internal and external pages, WordPress requires you to download a plugin. 

The best plugin that I found for linking our Hubspot blog to our WordPress site was: Quick Page/Post Redirect DEV version 4.2.2 by Don Fischer.  This plugin allows you to maintain website best practices of opening links in a new tab (after installing the plugin, make sure you go to the Redirect Menu on the toolbar and check open links in a new tab.)  After installing the plugin, complete the following to make your Hubspot blog link from your website:

1. Create a new page.  Name it the same as your Hubspot blog.
2. Go to the redirect plugin that appears below the visual/html input section.
3. Check the following; make redirect active, open redirect link in a new window, show the redirect link below instead of the page URL (see image below.)
4. Copy the URL of your Hubspot blog and input that URL in the redirect URL field (see image below.)
5. Click publish and experience a seamless redirect to your Hubspot blog!

Note:  If you would like to add this page in your menu toolbar, go to Appearance, Menus: Under Pages, select the page you would like to add to your menu (name of your Hubspot blog.)  Then click add to menu and you can arrange the placement of your menu in the Main box to the right.

Important!  When making changes to any site, always have 3 browsers (Firefox, Safari and Chrome) open to check compatibility with the code/plugins, etc.  Not all web browsers react as quickly to your changes and you may notice that some could take a couple of hours to reflect the changes you have made.