120 posts tagged with "confluence"

Confluence stores every page as XML in a format called "Confluence storage format." Most users never see it. But if you have ever tried to fix a broken macro, remove hidden formatting artifacts, or bulk-edit repetitive markup, you know the rich text editor alone is not enough. You need direct access to the underlying source.

At NGPILOT, we built two apps for exactly this purpose: Raw Storage Source Editor for Confluence (free) and Raw Storage Source Editor Pro for Confluence (paid). Both let you open, view, and edit the raw XML behind any Confluence page. This post compares them feature by feature so you can pick the right one for your team.

Dark mode has moved from a developer preference to an expectation across every tool in the modern workspace. Confluence Cloud introduced a native dark mode toggle, which is a welcome step, but the reality of implementing a fully dark-themed Confluence experience is more nuanced than flipping a single switch.

Confluence's built-in editor is strictly WYSIWYG — there is no native Markdown editor. For teams who already write in Markdown (README files, docs repos, pull request descriptions), that means manually reformatting every doc through toolbar buttons, losing time and introducing inconsistencies. Enhanced Markdown for Confluence solves this by embedding a full Markdown editor with live split preview directly inside Confluence — and it renders Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX/LaTeX math, and 190+ code-highlighted languages, all in one macro.

This FAQ answers the questions teams ask most often about writing Markdown in Confluence.

Sequence diagrams are one of the most widely used diagram types in software documentation. They show exactly how participants -- users, services, databases, external APIs -- exchange messages over time. For Confluence teams, embedding sequence diagrams directly on wiki pages means architecture docs, API specifications, and incident post-mortems stay in one place instead of scattered across external tools.

Mermaid's text-based syntax makes sequence diagrams fast to write and easy to update, but the syntax has its own set of rules that can trip you up. This FAQ answers the questions Confluence users ask most often about building sequence diagrams with Mermaid, with expanded explanations, working code examples, and copy-paste templates you can drop straight into a Mermaid Plus macro.

Page navigation is one of those things that nobody notices when it works well and everyone complains about when it does not. In Confluence, where pages routinely grow to thousands of words — technical specifications, onboarding guides, compliance documentation, project charters — helping readers find the right section quickly is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between a knowledge base that people use and one that people ignore.

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.