27 posts tagged with "FAQ"

FAQ pages are one of the most visited sections of any documentation site. In Confluence, they serve a specific purpose: giving your team or customers quick answers to the questions they ask most often, without making them read through pages of documentation. A well-structured FAQ page reduces repetitive questions in Slack channels, shortens onboarding time for new team members, and deflects support tickets before they are created.

But Confluence does not have a built-in FAQ feature. Teams typically resort to manual workarounds — tables, toggle macros, or expand sections — that look cluttered and are hard to maintain. This guide shows you three methods to create professional FAQ pages in Confluence, from a quick manual setup to a fully featured FAQ macro.

Confluence is great for documentation, but it lacks built-in tools for Q&A sections. If you need FAQ pages, knowledge bases, or community-style Q&A in Confluence, NGPILOT offers two purpose-built apps.

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 is one of the most widely used knowledge management platforms in the enterprise world, but its built-in editor is strictly WYSIWYG. For developers, technical writers, and content teams who already live in Markdown -- writing README files, documentation repos, pull request descriptions, and API references in plain text -- the absence of native Markdown support in Confluence is a daily frustration. You end up copying content from your Markdown files and manually reformatting it through toolbar buttons and dialog boxes, losing time and introducing inconsistencies along the way.

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.