Let’s say you need to change a class on a specific input. Or, maybe you need to remove some extra divs in order to get that specific layout needed. Being the snazzy developer that you are—you think to yourself, simple enough! I’ll just adjust the form embeds with some JavaScript and call it a day… but your script isn’t working… ???? Since HubSpot form embeds are powered by React, you can’t simply wait for the… Read More
There are a million plugins out there that will do this for you – most of which are just using the Infinite Scroll JavaScript plugin under the hood. They are great because it keeps people reading without forcing them to load a new page. However, the problem with infinite scrolling is the fact that you can’t ever access the footer of the website. You probably don’t want to load an entire plugin just to add… Read More
HubSpot has a set of great APIs that offer a ton of flexibility in terms of getting the data you need out of your HubSpot portal. The issue is – at least for all the front-end developers out there that prefer to do things client-side – HubSpot blocks client-side cross-origin requests and doesn’t offer a way to make server-side requests with HubL. Argh! This leaves you with 1 option: use your own server. The… Read More
Development
Leah Hutcheon, the Founder of Appointedd, came to us for help re-platforming the entire company website with a tight deadline.
They needed 106 static pages and 200+ blog posts, all using 20 custom designed page templates, migrated from HubSpot to WordPress using the same design and all done within 30 days.
Knowing it was a tight deadline, we got started right away building the site locally rather than waiting on a web host to be chosen first. Knowing their developers were familiar with HubSpot, we decided to build the site using the twig templating language because it is very similar to HubSpot’s own HubL. The reason both languages have similar syntax styles is because they both came from the same Jinja inspired origins.
The HubSpot website had a lot of HubDB data stores which we rebuilt as WordPress Custom Post Types. This allowed us to create the same functionality across the site while maintaining the ability for them to edit the content in a single place.
With over 200 blog posts to be migrated and no way to export the blog posts out of HubSpot, we ended up building our own HubSpot blog export tool using a custom coded HubL blog template to generate a CSV with all the required data in it.
One of the unique features from their HubSpot website was geolocating “smart content” that would update their pricing page with the correct currency and pricing depending on the visitor’s location. We built this functionality into their theme using Advanced Custom Fields to make the content easily editable by non-developers.
We’ve been the victim of some shoddy web building in the past so we were extremely happy to get everything done on time and in-budget! Leah Hutcheon Founder
