5 essential Confluence plugins to make pages even better

Best for: Making engaging, easy-to-navigate Confluence pages

Are you struggling with dull and unengaging Confluence pages? Join the thousands of Content Formatting Macros users and transform your bland Confluence pages. This comprehensive macro toolkit helps you design modern, professional-looking pages worthy of a website. Whether you're working on a wiki, intranet, project space, or documentation, designing user-friendly Confluence content is quick and simple. There’s no need to install multiple plugins.

💡 Example use case: A product team is developing documentation for their app. They want the documentation to look and feel like a consumer-facing website with interactive elements, company branding, straightforward navigation, and a clean layout. Content Formatting Macros for Confluence helps them achieve all of this quickly and with just one Confluence plugin.

Best for: Quickly and securely gathering feedback in Confluence with surveys and polls

Whether you want to create an in-depth survey, cast a quick vote on a product feature, or add a suggestion box to your intranet, Forms for Confluence lets you do it with ease, all in your Confluence instance.

💡 Example use case: An HR team wants to conduct an employee engagement survey. With Forms for Confluence, they can embed a survey in the company’s Confluence intranet, giving it maximum visibility. They use conditional fields to show a comment box when employees rate their happiness as 1 out of 5. They can pull the visualisations into a new Confluence page or export the charts to present key findings to decision-makers.

Best for: Drawing diagrams and flowcharts inside Confluence.

Described as "the most popular cloud diagramming and drawing app on the Atlassian marketplace", Gliffy creates highly visual diagrams in Confluence. Users love its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, which lets team members of all levels draw diagrams quickly and easily. Gliffy diagrams support fully searchable text and linked diagrams, which means teams can treat their Confluence diagrams as an always-up-to-date single source of truth.

💡 Example use case: A team of non-technical users who regularly use their company's Confluence wiki to share project updates, brainstorm ideas, and report on progress. Gliffy helps them add and edit diagrams and charts to illustrate their content without needing to upload external screenshots or images.

Best for: Allowing administrators to extend Confluence's capabilities and automate critical tasks.

ScriptRunner is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and popular Confluence add-ons. Also available for Jira and Bitbucket, ScriptRunner is the leading app for automating work and extending software capabilities.

💡 Example use case: A Confluence administrator is overseeing several large spaces throughout their organisation. ScriptRunner's flexibility and automation features mean they can reduce manual effort (and therefore time spent) managing and updating spaces. They can control content in bulk and automate repetitive tasks by running scripts on schedule, on demand, or when triggered by events.

Best for: Managing data and tables, including building charts and graphs

Boasting more than 15,000 installations to date, Table Filter and Charts for Confluence is one of the leading Confluence add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace. This app does what it says on the tin: it lets you build table filters and charts in Confluence. While it sounds simple, it’s far more powerful than what you can do with out-of-the-box Confluence, including building Gantt and pie charts and filtering data within tables. It's a handy analytical tool that will make you wonder why Confluence doesn't include these features as standard.

💡 Example use case: A marketing team is reporting on the success of a campaign. They want stakeholders to quickly access the information they're looking for within tables and visualise top-level statistics in graphs and charts. Table Filter and Charts for Confluence lets these users build more sophisticated, flexible tables and present data in ways that standard Confluence functionality doesn't allow.