When Lively Blogs is installed, a blog stream is automatically added to the right-hand side of the Confluence Dashboard. By default Lively Blogs is displaying regular Confluence blogs, so you may already find blogs on your Dashboard.
Switch between feeds
Use the dropdown at the top of the Homepage Feed to switch between three views without leaving the Confluence dashboard:
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Company Feed shows the team-wide stream configured by your admin (see Homepage Feed settings below).
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My Feed shows blog posts and pages that match your personal subscription rules. See My Feed & Personal Settings for details.
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Read Later shows the blog posts and pages you saved for later. See Read Later List for details.
My Feed and Read Later are personal to you. What you see depends on your own rules and saved items, not on the Homepage Feed settings below.
Homepage Feed settings
As an admin, you can customize what kind of blogs or pages are displayed on the Homepage feed by going to the Lively Blogs settings page. First go the Confluence settings:
Then go to Apps → Lively Blogs:
Customization Options
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General |
Content type |
Choose whether you’d like to display blogs or pages. See Page Feeds for details. |
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Display |
Choose the elements to be displayed for each blog/page in your feed. |
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Video preview |
Decide if you want video previews to be played when you hover over thumbnails. |
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Layout |
Image/video position |
Discover layout options under Image Positions to customize how your thumbnails are displayed. |
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Image/video fit |
Choose whether you want your thumbnail image or video to be cropped, displayed in full or stretched. |
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Restrictions |
Restrict to these spaces |
Insert space keys if you only want to display blogs or pages from a certain space. |
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Restrict to these labels |
Insert labels if you only want to display blogs or pages with a certain label. |
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Restrict to these authors |
Insert authors if you only want to display blogs or pages with a certain author. |
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Pinned content |
Time frame for pinned content |
Set a specific time frame for filtering and highlighting important blogs/pages. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details. |
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Maximum number of pinned items |
Maximum number of important blogs/pages at the top. Between 0 and 25, default is 2. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details. |
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Label for pinned content |
Blogs/pages with this label will be highlighted and remain at the top. Default: important. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details. |
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Feed settings |
Time frame |
Specify how far back to display (regular) blogs or pages. Example: 12h (12 hours), 2d (2 days) or 1w (1 week). |
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Number of items per page |
Adjust the quantity of blogs or pages visible per page. |
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Parent pages |
Add the IDs of the parent pages, separated by commas. (Find the ID in the page URL.)
See Page Feeds for details. |
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Sort by |
Choose to sort blogs/pages based on creation or modification date. |