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 the Pages module and the News module also use metadata to show a preview text or image. If a page has no metadata, the link’s preview text and image are taken from the on-page A page’s featured image and text can appear in various places:
The Pages module shows a Confluence page’s featured image.
The News module shows a Confluence blog’s featured image.
When a user searches on your site, they’ll see the page’s featured image and text.
When you share a link to a publicly available page, a link preview shows the featured image and text. This works on social media and Slack, for example.
When Google shows the page as a search result, it shows the featured text.
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If you don’t set a custom image and text, the image and text are based on the page’s content. |
You can add metadata to these types of pages:a featured image and text to:
A site’s home page
Confluence pages and blog posts
Confluence space landing pages
JSM project landing pages
Refined PagesThe home page
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a featured image and text to a page
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Click the arrow next to the “Edit page” button in the top-right
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Guidelines for feature image
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of the page.
Click Edit featured image and text (called Metadata on tablet and mobile).
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Image guidelines
To optimize the images to fit the Pages module and News module, 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 module’s format.
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4:3 |
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portrait (vertical) format | 800x600 pixels | |
4:3 landscape (horizontal) | 600x800 pixels |