Fix The Numbering Problem Confluence Never Solved with Macro Pack's Latest Feature
Confluence has helped teams create structured documentation for more than twenty years, yet one deceptively simple feature has remained difficult to solve properly: numbered headings. It is not a new request. “Numbered Headings” has been one of the long-standing Confluence feature requests for years, especially for teams working with specifications, legal documents, procedures, audits, and other structured content where section numbers are not optional. And there is a reason the problem is harder than it looks.
Write better and streamline your technical documentation with Macro Pack
Confluence is a powerful platform, but when it comes to technical documentation, its native formatting often feels restrictive. Architecture diagrams, API specifications, structured data, and technical markup quickly exceed what basic macros can handle. As a result, teams rely on screenshots, external links, or multiple apps that are difficult to maintain and keep in sync. If your documentation struggles to keep up with your needs, the problem might be your tooling.
9 Essential Actions for Teams in Confluence
Confluence has become the backbone of collaboration for thousands of teams worldwide. Yet, according to Atlassian’s State of Teams 2025 report , workers still spend nearly 25% of their time just searching for information. And as Atlassian’s AI Rovo or other AI tools reshape how we work, structured and accessible documentation has never been more essential. Here are nine research and data-backed steps every team should take before 2026 to get the most out of Confluence.
Easy Insights, Anywhere: eazyBI with External Share for Confluence
If you use eazyBI for Jira and Confluence, you already know how powerful it can be. eazyBI is a general-purpose Business Intelligence (BI), analytics, and reporting tool supporting many data sources — including tightly integrated dedicated apps for Atlassian Jira and Confluence. It enables teams to build rich reports, dashboards, visualizations, and custom analyses directly inside the Atlassian ecosystem. Why External Sharing Can Still Be Tricky While eazyBI is not a real-time analysis tool, this is an intentional design choice that ensures performance and reliability across large datasets.
When “Peak Billing” Comes Knocking: How to Manage Atlassian’s New Pricing with Smarter Sharing
If you are not living under a stone, you must have heard about Atlassian’s new pricing model. This October, they introduced the “maximum quantity billing” (MQB) - a major shift in how customers are billed. This change is intended to provide more predictable costs and simpler tracking for budgeting and planning. But, at the same time, customers will need to manage user licenses carefully to optimize costs, especially if user counts fluctuate frequently within a month.
Build, Brand, and Publish a Confluence Knowledge Base: Comparing External Share and Scroll Viewport
When you need to share Confluence content beyond your internal team, the right app can transform how you work. A particular case is when your Confluence content needs to double as a public knowledge base - the right add-on determines how polished, secure, and easy to maintain the final site can be. In this article, we want to introduce two of the most popular solutions: Warsaw Dynamics’ External Share for Confluence and K15t’s Scroll Viewport for Confluence .
Macro Pack: Now We're Moving to a Paid Model
Macro Pack (PlantUML, Swagger, Open API, Markdown, HTML, Latex, AsciiDoc) is a Confluence app that extends the platform with a wide range of powerful macros. It supports a wide variety of input sources such as URLs, attachments, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, and text, and works seamlessly with formats like HTML, JSON, CSV, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Mermaid, OpenAPI/Swagger, PlantUML, Draw.io, and LaTeX. Until now, Macro Pack has been completely free. Starting October 2025, we’ll be transitioning to a paid model.
From Design to Sharing: Karma Page Builder and External Share for Confluence
Sharing Confluence content with people outside your organization often comes with limitations. With External Share for Confluence, you can securely define what to share and with whom. (If you’d like to read a comparison between using Confluence guest accounts and our app, click here. ) When you combine Karma Page Builder for Confluence with External Share for Confluence,you can achieve a whole new way of working. Now, you can design stunning Confluence pages with Karma and safely share them with external partners and customers using External Share.
Beyond Confluence’s Limitations: What’s the Best Way to Collaborate Externally?
In today’s connected world, collaboration doesn’t stop at your company’s firewall. Teams often need to work closely with clients, contractors, vendors, auditors, or partners - people who aren’t part of their internal Confluence instance. This raises a challenge: how can you securely share relevant content while protecting everything else? Atlassian offers a built-in option: Guest accounts. But there’s also a more flexible solution - a marketplace app: External Share for Confluence.
'Adoption is the Most Important Part of Implementing the Tool' - Envorso Customer Success Story
We had the pleasure of sitting down with William and Filip from Envorso , an Atlassian Gold Solution Partner and consulting firm specializing in enterprise agility, digital transformation, and operational excellence. During the interview, they shared insights into how Approval Path for Confluence helped one of their clients solve critical challenges during a large-scale documentation migration to Confluence. Watch the full interview here: For those who prefer reading or are unable to watch the video at this time, we have prepared an interview summary below.