Blogs

Blog spaces let you present blog posts in a clean, reader-friendly way. You can add them to a dedicated blog site or any of your other Refined sites.

Blog site

The purpose of a blog site is to group all blogs together. The blog site’s main layout page consolidates blogs from all the blog spaces that you added. This provides users with one central location to see blogs from different spaces. It’s also possible to see the blogs per space.

You can create special themes for your blog site in the theme editor.

Users can access your blog site through: (your domain).com/blog

Edit a blog site

1. Go to Refined Administration.

2. Click the Site Builder tab.

3. The blog site is in the list of sites. It can’t be removed, but you can enable or disable it. Additionally, you can:

• Add the Blog Site Name 

• Theme your Blog Site 

• Organise your blog spaces into the Blog Site 

• Click to view the blog. 

Create a blog space on a blog site

1. Go to the Site:

   • By going to (your domain).com/blog

   • Or by clicking View in the Site Builder tab of your Refined Administration.

2. Click All blogs in the top left of the page > Create blog

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Create a blog post on a blog site

1. Go to the Site:

   • By going to (your domain).com/blog

   • Or by clicking View in the Site Builder tab of your Refined Administration.

2. Click the Plus icon in the top right of the site.

3. Select to which blog space you want to add a blog post.

Blogs on a global or additional site site

To create a site that contains Confluence spaces as well as blog spaces, add blog spaces to a global or additional site. On these sites, blog spaces follow your site’s theme. If you prefer a special look for your blogs, consider creating a blog site with a dedicated blog theme instead.

Create a blog space on a global or additional site

1. Go to the Site:

   • By going to (your domain).com/blog

   • Or by clicking View in the Site Builder tab of your Refined Administration.

2. Click the Plus icon in the top right of the page > Create space > Blog.

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Create a blog post on a global or additional site

1. Go to the blog space on your Site.

2. Click the Plus icon in the top right of the page > Create blog post.

Control News module/macro content using the News System

If you are looking to show blog posts on a site home or category home, use the News module. To show blog posts on pages, user dashboards, and space layouts, use the News macro.

When you don’t want to include every blog in a News module or News macro, you can use the News System to easily control which blogs will show up.

1. a. Configure your News module to only show blogs with the Confluence label visible_on_dashboard.
   b. Configure your News macro to Type = News.

2. Go to Refined Administration > Configuration.

3. Under Theme configuration, go to General > News system > select Enable.

4. Your blogs now have a new button. Clicking it adds the label visible_on_dashboard to a blog, making it show up in the News module/macro that your configured earlier.