The basic answer is that I posted some information that I thought was going to be more "temporal", that afterwards I felt should actually be in a "proper page" in my space.
In the end, I moved the contents of the blog post into a new page; and replaced the blog contents with a link to the new page (in case someone was arriving on my blog via a URL).
So, the reason I wanted it was due to a change of my mind in what kind of content it was.
To me you did the right thing...since I like the "historical trace" of the blog post to remain...and a "convert to page" would have removed the blog post.
If things at some time change and what you thought was a temporary blog post is now needed as a page and this feature existed (Blog to Page) then I would always say you should announce that also via a blog post (specially if it's removed)...so I guess I'm stuck with my opposition on the idea of converting blogs to pages (or stuck in the idea that the blog should be a historical overview =)
A "convert blog to page" feature would have been able to redirect my original blog URL to the page. So, that would not have been the issue you describe.
Anyway, as much as I'd like this feature, I'd rather Atlassian focus their efforts on the sucky table editor in Cloud; or allow me to put images inside a "Note" macro (or allow us to have a "Panel" macro like in on prem).
Ah...not I give you...given that the feature would keep the URL and redirect...that to me is still almost the same as replacing the blog with a link to the page ;) and I agree with you...there are many features that deserve more attention than this for now <3
Hi there, I'd love to have this feature. I post technical wiki page on internal wikisite. And would like to convert some of them to blogpost format and can be published on external sites. This way we can easily share knowledges w/ customers. Do we have a timeline for this feature?
I'm just sloppy and keep accidentally creating my blog posts as wiki pages. Would love this feature. Not finding it in Confluence Cloud though yet... ?
This was rolled out some time ago...strange if you don't see it already.
But there is also a new feature in the left side menu to create content with a + sign...right to the "Blog" there is the + sign to create a blog...a great addition that solves the issue of accidentally creating pages for me (but I do love the feature when I want to work on the pages somewhere and then covert to blog post...and not have them in draft mode while working on it =)
I have a Page, that was meant to be a Page, and was never meant to be a Blog. However, at some point it mysteriously became a Blog, and when the time limit was up it became invisible. Not sure who did it or when or why.
It was a very important Parent Report Page, and needs to be back where it belongs. But there is no Convert Blog to Page option, so I cannot revert the Page to a Page.
Now I have to create a new Page, copy and paste all the content onto the new Page, and go find all the link to the old Page/Blog, and fix them.
This is a lovely feature, but it needs a reverse command in case of errors.
I found this feature tricky because it seems to call a blog post a "blog". I think there's only one actual blog per space, and making a "blog" is actually creating a blog post under that space's blog.
@Kathy Hart the action when it "mysteriously became a Blog" is something that you can see in the History for the content, so you can see who/when it was changed.
The "when the time limit was up it became invisible" is more intriguing to me since I have no idea what time limit you are referring to and maybe you can help me understand this part.
I'm still on the side that the Blog to Page option should not be added since I regard the blogs to be a chronological announcements that shouldn't change afterwards :)
@G subramanyam I would think creating a bug to Atlassian (in their JIRA Cloud)...that's what I do and happy to say that (at least initial) response times have improved greatly <3
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