If you are a HubSpot customer, you have probably used their forum as a source of information and a way to network with fellow HubSpot clients. You also may have noticed that some clients have forum signatures with links. Further investigation will reveal that for some clients, the links actually work! For most people, however, they do not.
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As of this writing, HubSpot’s forum software does not support any type of automated markup language. If you know html, it’s easy to get around this. If not, you’ve probably been frustrated by this lack of feature.
If you are not a HubSpot customer, no need to read further. You will be unable to access their forum.
Start by accessing your profile. On any regular forum page, click “My Profile” (about two inches down on the right) and then click “Edit Profile” on the next page.
From here, it does get a little more complicated. This is where you will need to type a very small amount of html. There are just a few things you’ll want to identify, then you’re ready to go.
- If desired, the text you want to appear around your link (either before or after the link itself)
- The URL or Web address to which you want to link
- What words you want to appear that comprise the link (the words that people click)
- a Title for your link is optional. This is what shows up on the page when users hover their mouse over your link.
For example, if I want to link to my Twitter account, I might want @jronaldlee to show up in my signature. I might want the title for that link to be “James on Twitter. The URL for that word is http://twitter.com/jronaldlee. In other words, the user sees “@jronaldlee,” sees “James on Twitter” when the mouse is over the link, and is taken to my Twitter page when the link is clicked. Last, I might want a few words before the link, such as, “Find me on Twitter.”
To do this, I enter the following in the signature box:
Find me on Twitter: <a title=”James on Twitter” href=”http://twitter.com/jronaldlee”>@jronaldlee</a>
The output of that code looks like this:
Find me on Twitter: @jronaldlee
Once complete, simply click the Update Profile link at the bottom of the page, and your signature will be updated. Head on over to your latest forum to verify your work, and edit if necessary.
Word of caution: The syntax of a link in html is very specific. Be sure to follow the example exactly, including the http:// section of the URL and all quote marks. If you do not wish to include a title, you can omit the title=”name of title” section.
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