Hi. I think the idea of hashtags in the new blog is great, but as far as I can see, it is not possible to link to search results from outside of the blog section of a Wix website. This is a major flaw (or am I missing something?).
Two common scenarios where the hashtag will fail.
Website author problem
1. On the homepage (or any other non blog page of a website) I would find it very useful to link to a hashtag, which clicks through to the blog and displays search results for all posts containing that hashtag. This is commonly used on competitor platforms such as Wordpress, but it fails on Wix.
Website visitor problem
2. Within the blog, I click on a hashtag and see all the posts containing that tag - great! Now I want to copy the URL and email to a colleague, or post to a forum or social media, etc. But the link will fail.
It seems to be the same issue as Wix anchor links, i.e. they do not work in the conventional way and fail when used outside of the page. Example hashtag path ("var" represents the variable hashtag term) /blog/search/posts%3Fquery%3D%2523var I have tried encoding the html, i.e. /blog/search/posts?query=%23var
or
/blog/search/posts?query=%#var
... but I can't get it to work. Has anyone else had any success? Sorry, I don't have a real live example at the moment because there are just to many Wix Blog flaws to overcome before I can publish my client's site.
Thanks
Hi All,
thank you all for the valuable comments. We are including the improvement of hashtags functionality in the features Wishlist.
Yes, in the new blog is the work with the Hashtag a big problem. I can´t get a structure
Wix have responded to my support ticket as follows: Thank you for contacting Wix. Â
Well, I confirm that too. It's impossible to connect even from your website (ex. linking with a button), like you said.