The blog posts content type is great when you want to present a curated collection of blogs for:

• company announcements

• new team member introductions

• point-in-time project updates

• change management communications.  

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Configuring the blog posts views

While in the start screen of the Content Viz macro choose Blog posts. You will be forwarded to the macro configuration specifically designed for blog posts. The sidebar on the left enables you to apply filters/select blog posts. Based on your configuration you will be receiving a live preview.

Views

The blog posts content type supports three views:

News Grid

This view type is specifically designed to gain your audiences' attention. It is suited best for your Confluence or space dashboard. All blog posts will be displayed in a card layout and be sorted chronologically.

Each card contains metadata about the blog post:

• Image (header image of the blog post)

• Title

• Date (of creation)

• Author

• Space

• Label

List

This view promotes the visibility of your blog posts without taking too much space.

Compact list

This view type is best suited to present many blog posts in small spaces on your Confluence pages.

Depending on the view type you select the left sidebar offers you more or less options.

Layout

There are several column layouts available. After choosing a layout, you can easily switch between the options.

Dynamic and manual selection

Depending on your use case you can choose to display content dynamically or manually. By default the Dynamic option is selected so all available blog posts on your Confluence site are displayed in a chronological order, unless you apply filters. The main advantage of the dynamic view is that the rendered blog posts are automatically updated when you either change the filter or new blog posts that match your filter are created.

The Manual option allows you to cherry-pick from a list of already existing blog posts.

Options for dynamic configuration

Filters

To narrow the results you can use a combination of filters.

• Spaces – Return blog posts from a particular space or list of spaces.

• Contributors – Find content that's been modified (created, edited, or commented on) by a particular person or people in any space, including their personal space. When adding multiple contributors to your filter, the operator used between the people is OR. The ability to use the AND operator between people is not supported.

• Last modified – Choose or enter a date range to only show results that were updated within a particular period of time.

• Labels – See content that contains the specific label or labels. When adding multiple labels to your filter, the operator used between the labels is OR. The ability to use the AND operator between labels is not supported.

• Pages under – Return content that exists in pages under the selected page; this is helpful if know generally where the content exists in the page tree but you don't know the exact page name. 

Pagination

To further limit the displayed results when using the Dynamic option you can specify how many blog posts should be displayed in the macro.

Additionally, you can choose to paginate the results in three ways:

• Load more button: A button that enables users to load more content is displayed below your blog posts.

• Disabled: Users cannot load older blog posts.