Basically, you currently can’t have multiple page folders, and if it’s a dynamic page, then it will have the unique id as part of the URL, which makes a ton of sense functionally.
Yet there are strong opinions that the more human-readable the URL is, the better Google treats it, and we have been in multiple discussions with people about the pros and cons of the out-of-the-box approach.
There are some great plugins like Sudsy and our own free Navigator plugin which kind of solve this by providing the end-user the clean URLs, yet it can be tricky to set up.
What we wanted to ask about, is that it looks like Bubble’s own Blog (running apparently on Bubble), has some cool way to handle multiple URL folders and “nice” URLs in its structure.
So we were wondering if you could share your experience with building a blog with these features and if this is something that you can do with “generic” bubble builder capabilities.
Look: You CAN build blog-type functionality with Bubble, but is that the BEST solution for that?
Well… no.
So, just go build your blog projects another way. Like, a headless CMS (Contentful perhaps?), plus Gatsby plus React (static JAMstack, right?). Or do like Bubble and build on Ghost. Same difference, really.
I agree, though the point is to have the blog run exactly on the same domain as your main (Bubble) application. Meaning, app.io/blog/ vs. blog.app.io
There are strong suggestions that having your content and direct links to it on the main domain is better SEO-wise than running a blog on a subdomain with a different cms/blog framework , which is what you are suggesting if I’m getting this all right.
To explain - I do not have an understanding of how to build a blog on ghost with all the right and pretty URLs within a Bubble app, as Bubble team did, hence the question
Was this resolved at all? I am wanting to integrate too a blog into my bubble application, and wondering what is generally considered the best 3rd party blogging CMS tool to use alongside bubble?
Based on your research - do you have a view on this?
We’re using Medium for our own publications at Zeroqode Blog.
But not sure how good of an advice that is since medium chopped off their custom domain feature (we still made it while it was available) and now putting some content behind the paywall too.
If you’re running the blog on a subdomain like we do, then Ghost and good ol’ Wordpress both seem to do the job very nicely.
What I would hesitate to advise on is how exactly to run a blog within your main domain (that is, app.io/blog), which I’m trying to figure out in this thread
That would be a game changers for a lot of apps running on Bubble.
P.S. Now that I’m thinking of it - I’ll go add that as an idea to my Bubble Wishlist project
Update: Here’s the link to the item to see if enough people think it’s a good idea!
Not right now - this would be a pretty decently-sized new feature for us to build. (It was non-trivial for us to do it for Bubble.) Feature request is definitely noted though!
It would be beautiful if we could deploy Ghost CMS to myapp.io/blog from within Bubble somehow. Content and SEO is essential and the only place Bubble is currently lacking.
I created a new post to promote interest in solving this problem. The goal is to produce a clear and concise guide to solve this. Please like or comment on this post to show your interest. I’m putting a group together to solve this problem. @allenyang
