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Confluence Cloud Best Practices

Learn proven strategies for organizing, managing, and collaborating in Confluence. These tips and tricks will help you unlock the full potential of your content and teams.

Confluence is a powerful collaboration tool, but many teams barely scratch the surface of its full potential. We’ve put together proven best practices to get the most out of Confluence and keep your projects running smoothly.

Our collection is built on decades of working with Confluence, supporting thousands of users, and solving the same challenges your team faces every day. This guide is designed for teams already familiar with Confluence. If you’re new to the platform, start with our tutorial guide for a step-by-step introduction. You’ll find proven tips and tricks and practical guidance on creating clear, engaging pages, managing content with templates, and keeping permissions simple and secure.

We’ll walk you through how to make the most of Confluence’s powerful features, from macros and automation to databases and whiteboards, and show you how they can transform the way your team collaborates.

These best practices focus on Confluence Cloud only. If you are using Confluence Data Center, some features we’re mentioning might not be available, but the tips in general are still true for Data Center.

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Give your Confluence pages a makeover and create pages with better readability with this guide to building beautiful pages.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Learn how Confluence templates can save your team time, keep things consistent, and make starting new work a whole lot easier.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

If a new team member doesn't create a Confluence page in their first 3 weeks, they likely won't ever create one. Onboarding them to Confluence is incredibly important and our guide will show you how.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

With so many ways to get your team's attention in Confluence, which method should you use and when? This article outlines the best ways to involve and engage your team in Confluence.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Comments are one of the most popular collaboration tools in Confluence. Learn how to use feedback features effectively so your team can communicate clearly and work better together.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Learn how to use Confluence mobile to browse, create, and edit pages on the go. This video shows key features and best practices for the Confluence app.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Discover best practices for managing your Confluence pages effectively.

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Patricia Modispacher Patricia Modispacher

Learning when to use restrictions and how to implement permissions are key tools to enabling your organization to make the most out of Confluence.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Master Atlassian Rovo with practical tips for search, chat, agents, and Studio. Make your Confluence workflows faster, clearer, and more efficient.

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Patricia Modispacher Patricia Modispacher

Discover how Confluence automations can save your team time by handling reminders, updates, and recurring tasks for you.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

In this article, we’ll explore best practices for using whiteboards in Confluence to collaborate effectively, whether your team works side by side, across time zones, or asynchronously.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Confluence Analytics are a great way to take a look on what's going on in your Confluence Cloud instance. There are a lot of metrics you can look at and in this Confluence Best Practice video we're taking a deep dive into the Confluence Analytics feature and we'll tell you what the actual value of the data is.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Your Confluence content can quickly grow out of control. Avoid a cataclysm by building the Confluence with your contributors at the forefront of your plans.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

"Sorry, what was the name of that page again?" Here are some tips to help make sure your Confluence pages are found quickly and navigated in the right way.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Learn how labels in Confluence can improve the usability of your team's documentation for those who manage it, and those who search for it.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

If your team uses Confluence, you’re probably creating really great content together. And you know what people do with good content, right? They copy it! While it’s important to put valuable information where people need it, Confluence provides a much better way of spreading great content than the simple “copy and paste”. In this video, we explore how to reuse your content throughout your pages and spaces so your team always has the most up to date information, everywhere.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Tables in Confluence can hold a lot of information, but without structure they become hard to use. Discover best practices for creating clear, readable, and effective tables.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Confluence Cloud is a perfect place to create great tables. To understand what you’re looking at, your team can use data visualization and charts to draw out valuable data insights.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Discover best practices for building overview pages in Confluence, using content properties, labels, and databases to keep your team’s content organized and accessible.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Publishing content in Confluence isn’t enough to rank in search. Learn how Confluence SEO works and how to optimize your pages for better visibility.

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Steffen Burzlaff Steffen Burzlaff

Turn Confluence into a scalable image library. Learn how to create, format, and manage screenshots that stay consistent, accurate, and easy to maintain.

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Kristian Klima Kristian Klima