How to do ghost writing on Confluence Cloud Blogs

[Abby Anetsberger]

Hello, 

Our company has a use-case where we need the ability for a ghost-writer to author a page or blog and then publish it as a different Confluence User (e.g. Executive communications). 

We used to use a ghost-writing plugin in Data Center, but I've been unable to find an alternative for Cloud. 

I ran some tests of the "change owner" feature in Cloud, but the limitation is that we can only "change owner" on a Page - not on a Blog. Our biggest use case for ghost writing is going to be for Exec Blog content so we need the ability to "change owner" or ghost write on Blogs. I also tried the option to create a page, then do "change owner" on the page, then update the page and use the "Publish as Blog" feature, but when I do that it reverts the owner back to me.. 

Does anyone have a workaround or suggestion for how to ghost-write Blogs in Confluence Cloud? 

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @Abby Anetsberger , welcome to the Atlassian Community and thanks for your question.

You should be able to do this with Refined - https://help.refined.com/space/CLOUDDOCS/5152309288/Authors+on+Confluence+pages+and+blog+posts 

I appreciate there is a cost to using an app for this, and not the standard functionality. You can reach out to the vendor directly if you have any other questions about what is possible - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221322/refined-sites-for-confluence-intranets-documentation-kbs?hosting=cloud&tab=support 

Best wishes

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Abby Anetsberger 

Blog shows the creator, not the owner, if I'm not mistaken.

So even if you change the owner, the blog will display the creator.

A workaround would be get the exec to create a bunch of empty blogs (or pages as the page can be converted to a blog). If they have their own space, which they probably do, it should be fairly straightforward.

Other than that, you can work with an app that puts a skin over your Confluence (Refined, Spacecraft, Aura, Mantra) or create a website from Confluence content (Scroll Viewport, Instant Websites).

Support for blogs may vary across these apps but they're chaning constantly. Also, a blog is a page with fewer options so nothing stops you from creating a section, calling it Blog and use regular pages.