Confluence pages are powerful containers for knowledge, documentation, and team collaboration. But when it comes to displaying visual content -- product screenshots, event photos, marketing banners, or process walkthroughs -- the standard page layout falls short. Images stacked vertically create long, scroll-heavy pages that are difficult to scan, and Confluence's built-in gallery macro only offers a static thumbnail grid with no interactive slideshow behavior.

Widget Carousel for Confluence solves this by adding a fully interactive image carousel macro that you can embed on any Confluence page. You select images from page attachments or upload new ones directly, then display them in a customizable slider with configurable width options. The result is a polished, professional-looking carousel that transforms how visual content is presented in your Confluence workspace.

This FAQ covers the most common questions teams have about Widget Carousel for Confluence -- from basic setup and content types to advanced configuration, responsive design, and how it compares to Confluence's native gallery macro. Whether you are building a company dashboard, a project landing page, or a team portal, this guide will help you get the most out of the carousel.

When teams need to add diagrams to Confluence, two tools come up again and again: Excalidraw and draw.io (also known as diagrams.net). Both are popular Confluence diagram apps on the Atlassian Marketplace, but they take fundamentally different approaches to visual communication — and picking the wrong one wastes time and licensing budget.

The short version: for live whiteboarding, brainstorming, and freeform sketching, Excalidraw wins. For formal, finalized diagrams (UML, network topology, BPMN), draw.io is the better fit. Most teams end up needing both — and the rest of this post is the honest, feature-by-feature comparison so you can make the right call for your workflow.

Graphviz has been the backbone of automated graph visualization for over three decades. Originally developed at AT&T Labs, it powers dependency graphs in build systems, call graphs in profilers, and database schemas in ORMs -- anywhere that diagrams need to be generated from structured data rather than drawn by hand. Graphviz Charts for Confluence brings that same engine directly into your Confluence pages, letting you write DOT language descriptions and get polished, auto-laid-out diagrams without leaving your wiki.

Mermaid supports 30 diagram types — from flowcharts and sequence diagrams to C4 architecture, swimlanes, Gantt charts, ER diagrams, git graphs, and more. With Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence, all 30 render from plain text inside a single macro. This page is the complete reference: every type, its keyword, its category, when to use it, and worked examples for the ones a software team reaches for most.

If you are deciding which diagram type fits your use case, jump to When to use each Mermaid diagram type. For the quick reference table, see below. For installation and the macro basics, see Create Mermaid diagrams in Confluence.

Mermaid is the most popular text-based diagramming language for technical documentation. One line of code generates a flowchart. A few more produce a sequence diagram, ER diagram, or Gantt chart. Teams using Confluence can embed Mermaid diagrams directly on their pages, keeping diagrams alongside the documentation they illustrate.

Custom fonts in Confluence let you apply brand typography to your documentation. This guide covers Google Fonts for Confluence — 1,942+ font families, live preview, dark mode support, and customization options.

Google Fonts for Confluence gives you access to over 1,942 Google Fonts directly inside your Confluence pages. You can customize font family, weight, size, color, and alignment with a live preview that shows exactly how your text will look before you save. This step-by-step tutorial walks through everything: installing the app, configuring fonts, applying them across spaces, and maintaining a consistent typographic system that respects accessibility and brand standards.