Blog Posts Macro

Is there any way to constrain the formating of the display for this macro? It's pretty messy if you've got it in a list. The title, for example is huge.

Hi,

This macro doesnt appear to be working correctly- it doesnt update with the latest posts, and sometimes skips some old ones too. It is very random in this behaviour. Any ideas?

Feature request: New parameter for specifying start (and stop) times, so it will be possible to list the most recent posts with excerpts and the older ones with just titles:

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7672

Hi,

is there a way to disable the link from the title of a news post when showing news with excerpts?

 Thanks,

Chris

Ditto on the request to be able to control formatting.  I'm trying to fit the last n blog posts in a smaller, righthand column and the title is way too large.

Perhaps you might like to log your suggestions in the Confluence project at http://jira.atlassian.com, and/or vote for the following issue? http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4740; -- Many thanks.

Can someone please tell me how to modify the format of news in 2.6.0?

 I see the \confluence\WEB-INF\classes\templates\macros\lastblogs.vm file in my older version of Confluence, but in the newest version, this is all that's in the \confluence\WEB-INF\classes directory:

-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 2326 Sep 26 21:04 atlassian-user.xml
drwxr-xr-x  3 lsnaphilly vuser 4096 Sep 26 21:04 com
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 1024 Oct 23 20:37 confluence-init.properties
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 2856 Sep 26 21:04 crowd-ehcache.xml
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser  344 Sep 26 21:04 crowd.properties
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 8833 Sep 26 21:04 log4j.properties
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 2741 Sep 26 21:04 osuser.xml
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser 1577 Sep 26 21:04 seraph-config.xml
-rw-r-r-  1 lsnaphilly vuser  165 Sep 26 21:04 seraph-paths.xml

I've looked everywhere and I'm completely stumped on how to do this now.

Thanks,
Mark

I am attempting to use the blog post macro to create a filtered view of posts by specific users. This way it will allow for 'departmental' blog views within our shared space.  The parameters shown allow for inclusion based on space name, or by a users personal space, but not by posts in the group space by a specific user. (or hopefully, by multiple usernames). Is there any way to filter the blog post macro by the username that created the post in the Spaces blog, not the individual's blog?

Thanks

I am currently using Confluence 2.5.5.  I would consider myself a fairly 'novice' user of confluence - and I am having trouble with the blog-posts macro. 

If I use {blog-posts:labels=label_name|match-labels=all}   the macro works fine, but the moment I change it to {blog-posts:content=titles:labels=label_name|match-labels=all} the labels and the match-labels filters do not seem to work, and it brings up all the blog posts.  What may I be doing wrong?  I need to display just a list of post titles based on labels alone. 

any assistance is greatly appreciated,

thanks!

Hi - is it possible to display only the titles of the blog-posts - hiding all the column titles, Author and Date Posted data?

Thanks,

Doods

Is there a way to make the time filter work on the published date vs. the edited date?

Is it possible to hide the author field?

Is there any way to create a tabbed (deck and cards) space with different blogs for different tabs?  For example, I'm trying to create a newsletter page with four cards, and I'd like three of the cards to have a news blog format.  Unfortunately, the same posts are showing up on all three cards.

Thanks.

We are having issues getting the match-labels=all option to work as expected. Has anyone seen this behavior?

For example I expected {blog-posts:time=30d|labels=label1,label2|match-labels=all} to output all news items modified in the last 30 days that have both label1 and label2 attached to them. If some had additional labels they would be included as long as they had both of the specified labels. It seems to work fine unless no entries match at least one of the labels. In that case it appears to include all entries that match one of the specified labels. In the case listed above if no News items match label2, but there are ones that match label1 then you appear to get all the entries that match label1 that meet the other criteria. If a single entry has label2, then the behavior appears to go back to expected and outputs "No news found" with no special formatting. Interestingly enough the message for the single label case with match-labels=all turned on is different and output "No content is labeled with label1" with a red background.

I guess one workaround is to add additional news items with the missing label until the issue is fixed.

Similar JIRA issue, but it is listed as resolved and unduplicatable

Is there any way to filter a certain space out? I'd like all the news to display, expect from a certain space, because its news is listed separately on the dashboard.

Or, is there a way to specify just the news in the 'main' or 'dashboard' space vs. all new news from all the spaces?

We use the news function as a kind of forum with the macro {blog-posts:content=titles}. All news are in a list with title, author, date.

Question: Is there a way to show also the amount of comments in an addionial column?

Kind regards, Alex

Hi Raphael,

Could you please further explain the goal you want to achieve here? It will be great if you can provide a scenario for a better understanding. Alternatively, you can raise a support ticket at https://support.atlassian.com for more queries.

Regards,
MG

This may be a simple question that I'm just not finding the answer to-- but is there any way to reduce the size of the headlines in this macro? The news headlines are HUGE!

Thanks,

Renee

Hi, 

is there any way to collect news (blog-posts) on a certain page and inform useres by E-Mail, that there is new news? What I try to realise is, that the news is brought to the user and not that he has to look after it . . .

Thanx

Josef

Hello!

Does somebody of you have also got major performance problems as we do?

 To run a page with 2 posts and the blogpost makro, it takes like 15 seconds to build up the page...

Anybody got any ideas or workarounds? I am only Content Owner so I have no power to upgrade the hardware.

Thank you

Hi,

Is there a way to "back-date" news items.   Our group provides a lot of presentation across our organization.  Previously, we have organized these presentations in a simple table.  I would like to try to place those older presnetation items as news items based on the date given and then limit the blog-posts macro so that we don't see the last 50 presos... only the last 5 or so?

Hey,

Is there a way to add navigation?  I'm using this kind of as a blog, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to access older posts without having them just all be on one page.

Thanks,

Danielle

How do you display the News Items in the list format? I´ve tried Flex Blog Posts Plugin but it does not work?

Hi All

I need to filter the Blog/News, But i dont want to use Label to filter. Do u have any other option to filter the same

Regards,

Kaustubh

I have tried to sort the blog news in title order, but I do not get the list sorted. It does not actually matter in which order I try to sort the lines. Did anyone have the same problem? We are working in Confluence 2.9.

Hi,

I want to list blog items from all personal spaces vs global spaces, but I also need to exclude blog items with a specific label. Following instructions, I tried this (note the minus sign in front of the label):

{blog-posts:max=10|labels=-foo|content=titles|spaces=@personal}

But I'm still getting blog items labeled "foo". I'm on Confluence 2.8.2. What am I missing?

Hi all,

I've seen someone already asked a navigationfeature for blog posts.

Is there any chance to see this feature implemented? Currently this macro it's not acting like a real blog because if I shows only 5 posts, I have no way to directly access to previous posts. I have to click on a post and then I have two arrows... Why you do not add paginations?

I saw there is another plugin (Flexi Blog Plugin) that implements many of the requests for the shipped blog macro but I really I do not understand Atlassian policy about development. Why I should get my Confluence instance bloated from thirdy party plugins to see corrections and improvements on shipped plugins?

I found a similar request on Jiira but it seems three years old and on the road map there no improvement on this plugin so I see no utility to raise further requests.

Again, a lot of people asks for reducing title font size since three years ago. Why was not implemented? It's seems a really trivial correction. Yes I see I could change it through css and other ways but would my modifications be retained when I upgrade Confluence?

Bye

Is it possible to remove the top 'date' bar from the post?

When using blog posts and designating content equal to title, I am getting three columns (title, author and date).  Is there a way to omit author?

I'd actually like to remove the top gray bar that includes "Title, Author, and Date Posted" altogether - how can that be done?  I ONLY want the list information, not the header row.

When I try to use the following markup, it fails:

It says:

blog-posts: Multiple values found: [user2, user1, user3]. Only one value supported.

The documentation supports the author field, but no examples cite its usage. I tried using spaces (instead of commas) with no success as well as removing the parameter name "author=" from the macro (and just inserting the values after the macro name). It works when I specify a SINGLE user. An alternatively acceptable solution would be if it would accept a group, which it does not.

Hi,

Is it possible to use this macro BUT in the results I don't want to display the date of the posting-
Tuesday, September 20, 2005.

We use it for upcoming events- to give a list of them and I want to display title and the date of the scheduled event (some date in future).

Thanks,

Patrick. 

We really like this macro, but would like to find a way that the icon shown to the left of each item (currently a default system news icon) could be a custom icon, derived from the space that the news is from (presumably the space logo).  We have a main intranet-like page that pulls news from throughout our wiki, but it's not obvious enough which news items are from which spaces.  Is this something we can modify the macro to do?

Is there a way to post news in the Confluence Welcome Screen? Am looking for something like that... Nothing found so far :-(.

Is it possible to schedule a blog post in Confluence 3.0.1? We see the post date selection when creating a news article, but we aren't able to select a date beyond the current day of the post (dates after the current date are greyed out). I don't see the calendar view in news postings in Confluence 3.0.1, and we'd like to be able to create news and post at a later date. Thanks.

Is there any way to get comments appearing underneath the blog posts? (Not when you're viewing the post individually after clicking it, but when you're viewing the list of them.)

Even if you have to edit a .vm file or something, I'm interested.

The macro does not seem to be rendering anything past 12/31/2009. At this point, I think it may be because of the new year. 

hello,

how is it possible to format the date/time output of blog-posts macro from english format into e.g. german date format ?

Is it a server side setting?

Thanxs for help

EDIT:
I just found out: its dependent on the JVM locale settings, which u can change with the following JAVA_OPTS

did it for me.

Is it possible to list only the posts between certain dates? For example, it would be great if I could just show posts made between 31Jan2010 and 6Feb2010.

Hello,

is there a way to restrict the number of characters in „content=excerpts“-view?

Hello,

Are there  „Back to the List“- Function in single view?

Cant get -BADSPACE to work, it seems that default is the current space and it is not possible to combine this parameter with the @all-parameter. Please correct me if my test went wrong!

So you have to specify every single space, e.g. you have 200 spaces and all but 2 (e.g. test and private) are interesting for news. Thats just one scenario which seems to be a blocker for the usage of this macro. Actually i just wanted to have some simple lists, but it seems i have to install the reporting plugin or modify another/this plugin for that.

Some other scenarios this macro nees some enhancements: presentation (e.g. without border), custom columns (e.g. add space, labels, ..), comments

Hello,

Is there any way to change the author of a blog post?

I've imported a number of blog post from a blog on a different application and have published them myself but I'm not the original author.

Thanks

Hi,

how can I change table-layout in a div-layout in view "content=titles". HTML and CSS is not a problem. I don't understand the algorithm.

Thanks for all Help. A link would be enough too.

Ganna

Hello all,  Novice confluence user here, but loving it wholeheartedly!

I would love to show news messages in excerpts, but the problem is that when I do, the blog titles are hideously huge AND the excerpts themselves are too big to be called that... 

Is there any way to further specify the look and feel of blog posts themselves (getting rid of those huge titles would be great) and is there a way to define the length of an excerpt?

Many thanks for any help the experts can provide.

Peter

Hello,

does anybody know if it is possible to interlace the blog-post macro ??

Hi,

We experienced an issue with the excepts parameters. One of our users used column tags in the blog post and and since one of these was within the first 400 chars it really messed up the blog post page.

Maybe you should consider stripping such input in the excerpt characters.

Also it would be cool with an option to include or exclude images?

br.

Toke

Try it that way. E.g. change the text size to 10pt.

Cheers,

Daniel

Hi,

Trying to achieve a typical blog view (of a certain label), l'm using {blog-posts:labels=my_label|content=excerpts|max=5} macro.

What's not typical, is that it doesn't provide a link to view older posts, so a page with this macro gives access only to the latest five items.

What's the best way to provide a link to older items? e.g. "watch the previous 5 items" in the same excerpts view?

Thanks

Oren

Hi,

By default blog-posts macro is not displaying authors picture, can somebody help achieving this. I have seen in most of the places picture is being displayed with blog entry, even in the top of this article "what you type" and "what you will get" image of Matt is displayed but i am not able to show picture. Is there any parameter i have to use, as of now i have modified the blog-posts.vm to achieve this

Thanks

Deepak

Hi,

I'm using the blog-post macro with the content:titles option. In FireFox it looks fine, however in IE and Chrome, each blog posts seems to have a bullet point at the end or begining. Any idea's why this might be happening?

thanks

I'm having trouble with the CSS on this one. I've tried adding .blogpost, .blogheading and .blogpost .blogheading to my global CSS yet seem unable to style the titles?

I am using this macro, however I'd like for it to ONLY show the title, not the author and date also.

Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

{blog-posts:content=titles|labels=NONE}

Meant to use noformat before, sorry.

Has anyone run into problems in the last few days where the time constraints aren't working? I had it set for only showing posts in the last week and it was working perfectly fine until a few days ago when it started to show the last month or so. I didn't change any of the coding for the macro.

Anyone know whats up with this? Thanks.

Hi,

Is see that the issue I want to address is displayed three posts up, that is, when I use the blog-posts macro and specify that it should display posts with a certain label (and no posts with that label has been added), Confluence displays the text "blog-posts:'label" is not an existing label" in a sort of pinkish colour. I would have expected Confluence to display the text "No blog posts found." instead. Am I missing something in the usage of the macro?

Regards,

Lars

The table above mentions the ability to set the Content Type for the Blog Post macro. In Confluence 4.0 I no longer see a field in the Edit Macro popup for Content Type. Is there a way to edit the parameters of the Blog Post Macro manually?

The time-stamp of all new blog-posts written with confluence 4 is set to 00:00, so the sorting order and timeframe-setting doesn't work correctly.

Version 4.0

I didn't like the size of the blog heading in my page so I added the following to the Custom HTML in the Admin page "End of Head"

<style type="text/css">
a.blogHeading
{
font:bold 30px arial,sans-serif;
}
</style>

Works!

There seems to be a bug with blog posts in "Advanced Macros 2.0.34". After upgrading to this plugin version today the macro displays the full blog even if I choose "titles" as content type. All other content types working correctly.

After viewing the blog content in storage format I noticed that the parameter "content" does not exists if I choose "titles" als content type.

Since upgrading the error :

Error rendering macro 'blog-posts' : com.atlassian.renderer.v2.macro.MacroException: com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.pages.BlogPost

is returned on multiple instances