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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 Blog 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, publish, and update a page
Understand the lifecycle of content and how to manage content versioning.
Format a page or blog with a template
Use templates to create pages that come pre-populated with useful content.
Use Atlassian Intelligence to help write or edit content
Learn how to use Atlassian Intelligence to help write or edit your pages, comments, and blogs.
Format your page
Use formatting to add emphasis to your content in Confluence.
Smart Links in Confluence
Learn how to use Smart Links and insert anchors into a Confluence page.
What data is sent and received when pasting a Smart Link?
Learn about the security and privacy implications of pasting a Smart Link in Atlassian Cloud products.
Bring all your work into Confluence
Learn how to bring work from other products into Confluence by using Smart Links in the content tree.
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.
Use symbols, emojis, and special characters
Learn how to use symbols, emojis, and special characters in Confluence.
Make your page and its title more memorable
Add emojis and images to make your pages and blog posts stand out.
Add a status to your page or blog
Learn about this space admin-managed feature and how you can use it to let others know the state of your content
View a page
Get the details about the information shown at the top of a published page
Keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete
Review Confluence keyboard shortcuts and learn about markdown and autocomplete.
Available markdown commands
See a list of markdown commands you can use to quickly format text in the editor.
Import external documents
Learn how to import content into Confluence from external sources or from other Confluence sites.
Transfer ownership of your page to another person
Understand what it means to be a page owner and how to transfer ownership of a page to another person.
What is the new and improved publishing experience?
Learn more about the new and improved publishing experience
Convert pages to the cloud editor
Learn how to convert a page from using the legacy editor to using the cloud editor.
Get started with Smart Links in the content tree
Learn how to bring work from other products into Confluence by using Smart Links in the content tree.
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