Metadata is information that describes a page on your Refined site, but is not actually visible on the page itself. It lets you control the preview text and image that show up when you post a link on another platform, for example on Twitter, Facebook or Slack. Modules such as A preview appears when you share a link to a publicly available page on social media, Slack, and other platforms. If you use Refined for Confluence Cloud, the Pages module and the News module can also use metadata to show a the preview text or image. If a page has no metadata, the link’s preview text and image are taken from the on-page image and text of Confluence pages. When the preview image and description aren’t set up, the preview is based on the page’s content.
You can add metadata to these types of pages:
The site’s home page
Confluence pages and blog posts
Confluence space landing pages
Jira Software project landing pages
JSM project landing pages
The home page
Add metadata
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Add a preview image and text to a page
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Click the … Three dots button > Add Preview image & text.
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Image guidelines
To optimize the preview images for the pages and news modules, follow these guidelines. While it is possible to upload an image in a different ratio, keep in mind that the module will crop it to fit the format.
Module | Image format | Recommended image size |
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4:3 |
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portrait (vertical) format | 800x600 pixels | |
4:3 landscape (horizontal) | 600x800 pixels |