Embed Latest Blog Post on Third-Party Site

[Travis Laine]

Is there a way to embed the latest blog post on a third party site? I have a dashboard for users that I'd like to show the latest post on. I see how to export the link but I don't see anything like, for example, Twitter embedded timelines that would allow me to embed Confluence Blog Posts.

[Diego]

Hello @Travis Laine !

You should be able to achieve this via the RSS Feed feature in Confluence. With this, you should be able to relay the desired information into your dashboard.

Here is how I did it:

1. Click the question mark icon in the top right corner of Confluence
2. Select “Feed Builder”
3. Deselect everything under “Type of Content”, except for “Blog Posts”
4. Select “All Spaces” or the desired spaces under “From Space”
5. Click “Advanced Options”
6. Under “Feed Name” you can define the name of the feed
7. You can also get finer results by defining labels under “With these labels”
8. Under “Sorted by” select “Created Date”
9. In “Limit to” type 1 item (this will limit the feed to show only the latest post)
10. Under “Within the last” field, type the number of days the feed should look for new posts. This number should take into consideration how often you publish blog posts.
11. Click “Create RSS Feed”
12. Right click on the link created by Confluence and copy it
13. The link can now be used within the RSS Feed

Here is how my blog post looks like:

And here is how this blog post looks like in my browser’s RSS feed reader:

For more information on RSS feed and Confluence, you can look here:

• [Atlassian Support] What is a Confluence RSS feed?
• [Atlassian Support] Build an RSS feed

Now that we have an RSS Feed from Confluence, we can embed this very feed within your dashboard using a RSS Reader.

Let us hear from you!