How can I disable adding Blog Posts?

[ket.pjwstk]

How can I disable adding Blog Posts for confluence instance?

[David at David Simpson Apps · Accepted solution]

To get rid of the Add Blog Post links on the Dashboard and in spaces, use a little Javascript:

<script>
  AJS.toInit(function(){
    AJS.$('#createBlogpostLink').parent().hide();
    AJS.$('#addBlogLink').parent().hide();
  });
</script> 

You could add by browsing to...

Confluence Admin | Look and Feel | Custom HTML

...then paste into the At end of the HEAD section.

It'll prevent the menus from appearing in the UI and might just be enough.

[Manivannan Santharam]

I tried the same and it didnt work.

[MatthewC]

You can do it on a space by space basis, simply restrict the permission to create blog posts. Could be over-ridden by a space admin but it depends how many rights you give your users. Use a standard template space and the Copy Space plugin to save having to do it for every.

To keep an eye anyone been given the permission you can run a SQL report

select spaces.spacekey, spaces.spacename, spacepermissions.*
from SPACEPERMISSIONS, spaces 
where spacepermissions.spaceid=spaces.spaceid
and 
SPACEPERMISSIONS.permtype = 'EDITBLOG' 
order by spaces.spacename

[Ian]

@MatthewC Thanks for the suggestion above but now in my case we have 1000+ users hence going space by space to disable blogs on personal spaces is not ideal.What can you suggest the approach we should take?

And also how can we prevent blogs being created in personal spaces in future?