How to make links more engaging with Confluence buttons

How to create buttons in Confluence

• Buttons for Confluence: an app that lets you create buttons on your Confluence pages. The Buttons Group macro is bundled with it to let you display multiple buttons inline.
  
  
• Content Formatting Macros for Confluence: an all-in-one macro toolkit that includes the Buttons macro, Buttons Group macro, and many more macros to create pages that engage users. Other macros include Tabs, Cards, and Progress Bars.
  
  
  

• Try Buttons for Confluence
  
  
• Try Content Formatting Macros
  
  

Create a single button

1. Navigate to your chosen Confluence page and press “E” on your keyboard to start editing.
   
2. On your page, type “/button” and choose the Button macro from the dropdown menu. This will bring up the Button editor.
   
3. Add your button text, choose a destination for your button to link to, and customise your button’s appearance.
   
4. Click “Save” in the editor.
   
5. Select “Publish” (or “Update”) on the Confluence page to see your new button.

Create a group of buttons

1. Create your buttons as usual, following steps 1-4 above for every button.
2. Next, “type “/button group” where you’d like to add the button group. Click the Button Group macro from the dropdown menu.
3. In the Button Group editor, choose the button group direction and its alignment on the page.
4. Press “Save”. You should be able to see the Button Group macro placeholder on the page.
5. Finally, cut and paste each Button macro and paste them inside the Button Group macro placeholder. Press “Publish” (or “Update”) to view your new group of buttons.

Button customisation options

• The button icon: Optional but helpful for creating engaging buttons, the icons library comes with Atlassian’s icons and emojis, plus icons from FontAwesome and Material Design.
  
  
• Button alignment: Align your button left, centre, or right on your Confluence page.
  
  
• Background colour and text colour: Choose from recently used colours, colours from your brand palette (set by an admin), colours used in your Confluence space, or default colours set by the macro.
  
  
• Button style preset: The Subtle and Primary types override the background and text colours, but you can still choose a button icon.

Why use buttons in Confluence? Popular use cases

• To boost page navigation: Link to other Confluence pages in a visually striking way, helping users to easily navigate between related content.
  
  
• To provide clear Calls to Actions (CTAs): Want your users to take a specific action on the page? A button is a surefire way to encourage clicks on forms submissions, starting guides, and more.
  
  
• To boost engagement: The visual, interactive element helps to draw users’ attention and keep them engaged with the page content in a way that plain links simply can’t.
  
  
• To improve brand consistency: Creating buttons in your organisation’s colours is a great way to inject some extra brand styling, making your Confluence pages look more professional.