Homepage Feed

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:

Lively Blogs feed on the Confluence dashboard

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

Image/video position	Discover layout options under Image Positions to customize how your thumbnails are displayed.
Image/video fit	Choose whether you want your thumbnail image or video to be cropped, displayed in full or stretched.
Video preview	Decide if you want video previews to be played when you hover over thumbnails.
Restrict to these spaces	Insert space keys if you only want to display blogs or pages from a certain space.
Restrict to these labels	Insert labels if you only want to display blogs or pages with a certain label.
Restrict to these authors	Insert authors if you only want to display blogs or pages with a certain author.
Content type	Choose whether you’d like to display blogs or pages. See Page Feeds for details.
Parent pages	Add the IDs of the parent pages, separated by commas. (Find the ID in the page URL.) (This option applies only if "Content Type" is set to "Page.") See Page Feeds for details.
Level of descendants	Choose between: Direct children: Display only immediate child pages. All levels: Include nested child pages as well. (This applies only if parent pages are specified.) See Page Feeds for details.
Time frame	Specify how far back to display (regular) blogs or pages. Example: 12h (12 hours), 2d (2 days) or 1w (1 week).
Number of blogs/pages per page	Adjust the quantity of blogs or pages visible per page.
Label for pinning important blogs/pages	Blogs/pages with this label will be highlighted and remain at the top. Default: important. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details.
Time frame for pinned blogs/pages	Set a specific time frame for filtering and highlighting important blogs/pages. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details.
Maximum number of pinned blogs/pages	Maximum number of important blogs/pages at the top. Between 0 and 25, default is 2. See Pinned Blog Posts and Pages for details.
	Choose the elements to be displayed for each blog/page in your feed.
Sort by Created/Modified	Choose to sort blogs/pages based on creation or modification date.