Blog posts
Blog posts are an easy way to share announcements, journal entries or status reports. Blog posts are also sorted by publication date and do not appear in the page hierarchy. This means that they are best suited for timely information. Others can join in by commenting on or liking your blog post and, if you get enough of either, your post might make it to the popular feed on the dashboard!
Each space in Confluence, including your personal space, has its own blog. To view a space's blog, go to a space and select Blog in the sidebar. You'll see a list of the latest blog posts. To see earlier posts, use the navigation area in the sidebar.
Prerequisites
To create blog posts, you need the 'Add Blog' permission. See Space Permissions.
To move blog posts, you need the 'Delete blog' permission in the space the post is in, and 'Add blog' permission in the destination space.
Create a blog post
To create a blog post, you can either use the Blog post template from the Create templates for your blog posts.
menu, or create a page and convert it to a blog post after it’s published. The second option gives you the flexibility to useTemplates are only available for pages, so to use one for a blog post, first create a page from a template and then convert it to a blog post.
To create a blog post from the Create menu:
- Go to the space where you want to create your blog post.
- Select More optionsnext to the Create button in the Confluence header. From the available templates, select Blog post.
- Add your content and select Publish.
You can create blog posts from the Dashboard, but you'll need to make sure you choose the space it's going to appear in in the create dialog.
To convert a page to a blog post:
You can only convert published pages.
- Create a Confluence page. You can create a blank page or use any template available under the More optionsmenu in the Confluence header.
- Add your content and select Publish.
- After the page is published, go to the More optionsmenu and select Convert to blog post.
When you convert a page with children into a blog post, child pages move to the parent’s original position in the structure. Any restrictions the child pages inherited from the parent page are removed once the parent is converted.
Blog posts can be attractive and engaging in the same way a page can be, so go ahead and add images, YouTube clips, and tables to your post to really grab your audience’s attention.
Move a blog post
If you create a blog post in the wrong space, or want to reorganize your spaces, you can move an individual blog post to another space.
To move a blog post:
- Go to the post and select More options More options> Move.
- Select the new destination space.
Restrict a blog post
You can restrict a blog post so that it is only available to specific users or groups. Blog post restrictions work in the same way as page restrictions.
To restrict a blog post prior to publishing it, select the Unrestricted
button in the page tools and apply your restrictions.To restrict a blog post after publishing, select More options
Notes:
- Notifications are sent at the point a blog post is created - removing restrictions does not trigger a new notification.
- As a blog post has no parent, restrictions aren't inherited.
Delete a blog post
To delete a blog post, select More optionsdeleting a page.
> Delete. Deleting a blog post follows the same rules asExport a blog post
You can export individual blog posts to PDF. This is useful, for example, if you want to email an internal blog post to people outside your organization.
See Export Content to Word, PDF, HTML and XML for more information on exporting blog posts to PDF.