Set up Confluence Cloud
Get the high-level details you need to set up your Confluence Cloud site in order to meet your team's needs.
In Confluence, you create content as pages in a space or as blog posts in a space. Both of these documents are conceptually the same; they are both created by clicking the create action in the global navigation. You choose Blog post to create a blog, and any other templates create a page.
Page templates are pre-formatted and feature relevant macros and instructions to help you create retros, meeting minutes, how-to-articles, decisions, and more. You can edit any of these templates to suit your own needs, or you can create your own templates from scratch.
Just like other documents you've used, you can fill pages and blog posts with text and tables, and format them to look pretty, funny, or professional. Confluence also lets you use macros and embed files so that you can have dynamic content in your documents, like videos, Jira issues, roadmaps, and automated reports.
The differences between pages and blogs include the following:
Published blogs are available in the Blogs section of your space and are grouped chronologically. This means that they have a sense of timeliness and are more suited to announcements, news, and updates.
Published pages are accessed from the Pages section of the space sidebar. Pages live in a page tree and can be nested and organized hierarchically, so you can have pages under pages (under pages). This lets you give your content structure and highlight relationships between pages, such as when you have a parent page about cats, and then child pages under that about different breeds of cats.
Every Confluence space, including your personal space, allows you to create pages in it, and has its own blog in which you can create posts.
Create, edit, and publish a page
Understand the lifecycle of content and how to manage content versioning.
Format your page
Use formatting to add emphasis to your content in Confluence.
Insert elements into a page
Get familiar with the page elements you can add to a page in Confluence to help you organize and present information your way.
Make your page and its title more memorable
Add emojis and images to make your pages and blog posts stand out.
Insert links
Learn how to insert links and anchors into a Confluence page.
View a page
Get the details about the information shown at the top of a published page
Use symbols, emojis, and special characters
Learn how to use symbols, emojis, and special characters in Confluence.
Keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete
Review Confluence keyboard shortcuts and learn about markdown and autocomplete.
Create a custom report
Combine templates and macros to create custom reports in Confluence.
Confluence Cloud editor roadmap
Stay up-to-date on improvements to the Confluence editor.
Convert pages to the new editor
Learn how to convert a page from using the legacy editor to using the new editor.
Available markdown commands
See a list of markdown commands you can use to quickly format text in the editor.
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