Working with Page Templates

When you add a new page, you don't have to start from scratch. Instead, you can base your new page on a template – a Confluence page with predefined content. Some templates are provided by blueprints or add-ons, and you can even create your own templates.

Some examples of useful templates are:

• The meeting notes template will help you and your team collaborate on notes and follow-up tasks 
• The requirements template allows you to capture your software/hardware product requirements, and create related JIRA issues from the page

Global templates and space templates

In Confluence, there are two categories of page templates:

• Space templates: These page templates are available in a specific space only. If you have space administrator permission, you can define templates via the space administration screen.
• Global templates: These page templates are available in every space on your site. If you have Confluence Administrator permission, you can define global templates via the Confluence Administration Console.

If you're a system administrator, you can also download predefined templates.

Create a template

You can write your template using the Confluence editor. You can also add special variables to the page, if you want to include fields that the author will complete when adding the page. See Create a Template for more information.

Use a template

Page templates are used only when adding a page. It is not possible to apply a template to an already-existing page. Once a page has been added using a template, the template is no longer linked to the page. All further editing is performed as if the template was never used. Some plugins provide enhanced template functionality. You can search the Atlassian Marketplace for template add-ons.

 See Create a Page from a Template for more information.

Templates provided by blueprints

A blueprint is a page template with added functionality to help you create, manage and organize content in Confluence, and there's a collection of predefined ones that ship with Confluence. You can also download additional blueprints from the Atlassian Marketplace. You can customize the blueprint templates to suit your individual needs, disable particular blueprints or even develop your own blueprints.

Promote templates in the Create dialog

If you're a space administrator, you can choose to promote specific templates and blueprints in the Create dialog. Promoting items can help ensure consistency in a space by encouraging users to create particular types of content, instead of blank pages.

The promoted templates or blueprints will appear at the top, with all other content types, including Blank Page and Blog Post collapsed under them. To view the other types of content available choose the Show more link.

1. Show more: see more templates and blueprints.

To promote a template or blueprint:

1. Go to Space Tools > Content Tools
2. Choose Promote next to the templates or blueprints you want to appear in the Create dialog. You can only promote templates created in this space. 

Remember, by promoting a blueprint or template you'll be hiding all other items, including blank page and blog post, under the Show more link. 

If you use the Show more link in the create dialog more than three times in a single space, the dialog will show you all templates by default from then on. 

System templates

Confluence also provides 'system templates' containing content like the site welcome message and default space content. See Administering Site Templates.