Hide Children Display Macro in Footer for Blogpost in Confluence

[john]

I created a space and modified the Space Layout to contain a custom footer. In the custom footer, I placed the "children display macro" with the intent of making sure that child pages are always visible if they exist for a page. I have also hidden the left column in the layout to maximize the content.

This works well everywhere except for blog entries. The same footer is applied for a blogpost. The macro provides an error "Unable to Render {children}. Can only find children for a page, this is a blogpost."

The ideal case for me would be that the macro should render nothing since it was able to identify the page as a blogpost. The error message is messy.

Is there a way to hide this message when the footer is on a blogpost?

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

You could most likely use CSS to hide it.  You would just need to identify an html hierarchy that would only apply it to blog posts.

[john]

That is the path I was pursing. I did just arrive at a solution, but it is a bit of a "nuclear" effect since it affects all pages in the space and I am not certain about the potential side effects. The challenge, in this case, is that the div is dynamically generated by the macro, so I ended up with the following:

div.blogpost div.error[data-macro-name="children"] {
visibility: hidden;
}

Perhaps this is a bug in the "Children Display Macro"?

This CSS does do what I need. Any thoughts on possible negative consequences?

Thanks.