What is the new navigation in Confluence?
The new navigation is centred around customization capabilities and ease-of-use improvements. With a design familiar to anyone who uses software products, we’re creating a new navigation that’ll eventually fit all Atlassian products.
See your brand or product, and switch Atlassian sites or apps
Access essentials like For you, Recent, Starred, Spaces and Apps across projects and products
Find More navigation items and Customize sidebar
Quickly access Starred spaces when no spaces are open
Explore the contents of a space when it’s open
Browse available Spaces
Search across all products on your site, and Create content
Use AI Chatand find utility items like Notifications, Settings, and Account
Key features
Navigation starts from the sidebar
Work across multiple spaces straight from the sidebar.
For you: A personalized hub with your recently viewed pages alongside popular content, all curated for easy discovery
Recent: Pages, blogs, and whiteboards, and other content you’ve visited.
Starred: Essential items you’ve marked with a star.
Customize your sidebar
Show, reorder, and hide navigation items by going to More () > Customize sidebar.
Customize your sidebar
Drag the line to customize
Drag the item or check the checkbox to show, reorder, or hide
Show items: To add items to your sidebar, simply drag them above the Hide from sidebar line.
Hide items: To remove items from your sidebar, drag them below the Hide from sidebar line. Alternatively, drag the Hide from sidebar line above the items you want to hide.
Reorder items: To rearrange the order of items in your sidebar, drag them to your preferred positions.
Use (up and down arrow keys) from your keyboard to reorder items in your sidebar.
Show or hide sidebar
If the sidebar takes up too much space, you can either resize or collapse it. You’ll always be able to expand the sidebar when you need to navigate again.
Tip: Press ] to expand and [ to collapse the sidebar. If you’re editing a page, press Ctrl/Cmd + ] and Ctrl/Cmd + [.
Space settings
As an admin, you’ll find space settings by selecting More actions () next to a space’s name.
Apps
Access both your system and Marketplace apps from the sidebar. Admins can select More actions () next to Apps to find and manage apps.
Manage your rollout (admin only)
This feature is only available when the new navigation reaches your Confluence site but before it’s automatically turned on. Admins will be notified with a banner when this feature becomes available.
When a large change is introduced to your team, proper planning can go a long way. To help your team adapt comfortable to the new navigation, we’ve added a way for admins to control the team’s rollout. Before we turn the new navigation on automatically, admins can:
Turn on the new navigation only for themselves
Turn on the new navigation for everyone on the Confluence site
Your Confluence site will automatically switch to the new navigation a few weeks after it becomes available to admins, even if no admin has manually turned it on.
To manage your rollout as an admin:
From the top right corner, select Settings () > Configuration.
Go to New features and find New navigation.
Under Turn on just for you, select Turn on.
Test the new navigation yourself and prepare your team.
When you’re ready for your entire team to use the new navigation, select Turn on for everyone.
Frequently asked questions
Question | Answer/Response |
|---|---|
Why don’t I have the new navigation? | We’re cautiously rolling out the new navigation for General Availability (GA) in waves from March 2025 onwards. We’ll notify you and your admins when the new navigation is enabled for your site a few weeks prior. |
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