News module

The News module shows the most recent Confluence blog posts from one or more spaces. You can use this module on a help site to show a product’s latest features, as we have done on the Refined Sites for Cloud landing page on this our site.

Add this module to a page

Go to a landing page on your site.
Click the Edit page button.
Hover your mouse over the desired location on the page and click the + Add module button that appears.
Click News in the left-hand menu.
Select the News module.

Edit the title

Simply click the module’s title (heading), to edit it. There are various formatting options, including paragraph/heading styles. Tip: use text variables to make the text dynamic, for example to display the user’s first name.

Edit the settings

Click the module to open its settings menu, which appears on its right-hand side.
Edit the settings, which are divided over multiple tabs:

Module tab

Setting	Description

Setting

Description

Background

Add an Image, Color, or Gradient as background – or turn off the background by selecting None.

There are multiple ways to pick a color:

Select the shade and hue at the top of the popup.
Enter an RGB, RGBA, or hex code.
Click the eyedropper icon to select a color from anywhere on the page (available in the browsers Firefox and Edge).
Click one of the recently used colors.

Use the vertical slider in the middle of the popup to control the color’s opacity.

Fixed height

By default, all modules adjust their size to their content. To set a fixed height instead, fill in the desired height in pixels.

News tab

Setting	Description

Setting	Description
Display style	Image feed shows the blog posts' image, title and publishing date. Card shows the blog posts' image, title, description and publishing date. List shows the blog posts' publishing date and title. Slideshow shows the blog posts one by one. It includes the blog posts' image, title and publishing date.
Avatars	Show or hide the blog authors' avatars (profile pictures). Users set up their avatars in their Atlassian account.
Number of items	Enter the amount of blog posts you want to show by default. Users can always click a button to load more, except when the Display style is set to Slideshow.
Filter	Filters let you narrow down which blog posts from your site's Confluence spaces to show. Simple lets you filter by label, space and author. Select Advanced to filter with CQL.
Filter by label Available when Filter is set to Basic.	Enter a label to include only the blog posts that have that label in Confluence. Add a dash ( - ) in front of a label to exclude its blog posts. Separate multiple labels with commas.
Filter by space Available when Filter is set to Basic.	To show blog posts from all Confluence spaces on your site, leave this field empty. To show blog posts from one or more other spaces, add space keys separated with commas. Exclude a space key by adding a dash ( - ) in front of it. To show dynamic content, enter a text variable:
Filter by author Available when Filter is set to Basic.	Enter a creator’s Account ID to include their blog posts. A user’s Account ID can be found in the URL of their Atlassian profile. For example, in a URL ending with wiki/people/62f636d425abc07e51c8b330, the bold string of letters and numbers is the user’s Account ID. Add a dash ( - ) in front of a Account ID to exclude that user’s activity. Separate multiple IDs with commas. To show only blog posts created by the user viewing the page, enter $userid.
Filter with CQL Available when Filter is set to Advanced.	Use CQL to show specific blog posts. Use "type = blogpost". Make the filter dynamic with text variables. For example, show blog posts that the user added: `type = blogpost AND creator = $username ORDER BY created DESC`

Images

By default, the module shows an image from the blog post (if available) You can also set a custom preview image instead. Images are shown in a 4:3 portrait (vertical) format. We recommend using images that are at least 800x600 pixels.

Description

By default, the module shows the blog post’s first 250 characters. To set a custom description, add a preview text to the blog post.