Add a news to the news slider ("Top stories slider" macro)
Create a new blog post
Click on the "Create" button
Choose "Blog post"
Make sure you create the blog post in the correct space
Add content
Add a title, picture, text
Add content in the excerpt macro to define what text appears in the slider: Define what text of a page or a blog post appears on the dashboard
Add a label to the news post
Usually, the "Top stories macro" is configured to search for news posts with the label "topnews". But you can define your own label if needed:
In the "Top Stories Slider" configuration, you can define if a news post needs to have a specific label for its content to be displayed. Just add a different label in the field “Restrict to these Labels”.
If you have more than one picture attached to a news post, use the following guide to configure what picture is displayed: Define what picture of a blog post will be used on the dashboard
View on the dashboard
Your new news is listed on the dashboard (after Confluence has indexed the content)