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Display title, excerpt & date

{blog-list:count=3|postedby=date|permalink=}

Which gives:

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Builder 3.3.6 released
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Posted by Alain Moran on Dec 11, 2009 15:49

Only display titles

{blog-list:count=3|postedby=false|excerpt=false|permalink=}

Which gives:

Theme Builder 4.1.3 & 4.0.4 Released
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Builder 3.3.6 released

Just remove the permalink

{blog-list:count=3|permalink=}

Which gives:

Theme Builder 4.1.3 & 4.0.4 Released
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Builder 4.1.1 Released
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Builder 3.3.6 released
Builder 3.3.6 has been released and is available here: Downloads

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Show the date the post was made

{blog-list:count=3|date=true}

Which gives:

Aug 18, 2010 09:36
Theme Builder 4.1.3 & 4.0.4 Released
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Jul 14, 2010 00:17
Builder 4.1.1 Released
The Builder 4.1.1 release is now available for download. This release fixes a bug with viewing the manage layouts and builder admin interface in Confluence 3.3.
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Dec 11, 2009 15:49
Builder 3.3.6 released
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CSS Customisation

The standard output follows this structure

<div class="bloglist default">

    <div class="post">
        <div class="date"><span>Jun 01, 2009 23:30</span></div>
        <div class="permalink"><a href="$bloglisthelper.getTinyURL($post)">Permalink</a></div>
        <div class="title">
            <a href="http://www.mysite.com/x/Goy9Ag">This is the blogpost title</a>
        </div>
        <div class="excerpt"><span>The excerpt of the blogpost will be shown here</span></div>
        <div class="postedby">Posted by Test User on Jun 01, 2009 23:30 </div>
        <div class="commentcount">Comments (5)</div>
    </div>

</div>

Hints and Tips

When excepts are enabled, the macro will output a block of content taken from the top of your blog posts. If you need more control over the excerpts, consider using the excerpt macro.

Frequently Asked Questions

None at present.

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*As I mentioned recently about HipChat, developers love their Keyboard shortcuts. JIRA has its own fair share too to speed up the routine tasks within JIRA. Here's the ten JIRA keyboard shortc...

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Display blog posts for just global spaces (whole site, no personal spaces)

To display blogs for global spaces set the display mode to multispace (so that the space the blog originated in is displayed), and set the spaces parameter to @global

{blog-list:multispace|space=@global}

Which gives:

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blog-list macro

{blog-list} Macro

Description

The blog-list macro is used to display a list of blog posts and excerpts....

Usage

{blog-list}

Parameters

The "Ver" column shows which version of Theme Builder the parameter became available in.

Property Required Default Notes Theme Panels Only Ver
default singlespace Display mode. (singlespace/multispace)   3.2
space @current The space (or list of spaces) whose posts should be listed (SPACEKEY/@all/@current/@favourite/@global/@personal/@children) NB: the @all parameter must be used on it's own, other macro parameters may be used in a list.   3.2
label n/a A list of team labels that can be used to filter the list of blog posts   3.3.5
author n/a A comma separated list of usernames/group names/@self/@creator/@owner   3.3
sort creation The order that the posts should be listed in (creation/modified/recent)   3.2
reverse false List the blogposts in reverse order   3.2
count 9 The number of posts that should be displayed.   3.2
start 0 Offset from the start for listing the posts.   3.2
dateFormat defined by confluence settings Format that dates should be displayed in   3.2
date false Show the Date of the blogpost.   3.2
title true Show the Title of the blogpost.   3.2
linktitle true Link the title to the blogpost   3.2
excerpt true Display the excerpt of the blogpost (true/false/full)   3.2
postedby true Display the date that the post was created (true/false/date).   3.2
permalink n/a Text to use for posted by   3.2
postedByCaption n/a Text to use for posted by.   3.2
none n/a Text to display when no posts have been found   3.2

Examples

Basic Use

Add the {blog-list} macro to a page or panel where you want to display a list of blog posts

{blog-list}

Which gives:

Theme Builder 4.1.3 & 4.0.4 Released
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See [Them...

Posted by Mark Gibson
Builder 4.1.1 Released
The Builder 4.1.1 release is now available for download. This release fixes a bug with viewing the manage layouts and builder admin interface in Confluence 3.3.
Posted by Shannon Krebs
Builder 3.3.6 released
Builder 3.3.6 has been released and is available here: Downloads

More information can be found on the Builder 3.3.6 release notes paqe.

Posted by Alain Moran

Display blog posts for the whole site (including personal spaces)

To display blogs for all spaces set the display mode to multispace (so that the space the blog originated in is displayed), and set the spaces parameter to @all

{blog-list:multispace|space=@all}

Which gives:

8 Ways to Improve Information Discoverability and Boost Collaboration in Confluence
Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal and sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus achieve it. Confluence helps with this as it makes creating rich, informative content easy. However, just creating content isn't enough on its own, in order to improve collaboration this content must be available to the right people at the right time. In short, it must be discoverable. Confluence has a number of ways in which it helps you with this and here are a few tips on how to make the most of them for you and your users.
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