Documentation Theme Broken and Side Navigation Bar Missing Post-Confluence Upgrade
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Problem
The Documentation theme is broken, and the left navigation bar is missing post-Confluence upgrade
Cause
The wrong documentation theme plugin is loaded (instead of the one bundled with Confluence)
Resolution
Take a backup of the Confluence Database. Then run this query to remove the wrong plugin:
DELETE FROM PLUGINDATA WHERE PLUGINKEY LIKE '%com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme%';After that, shutdown Confluence, remove the plugin caches from the Confluence Home Directory:
- bundled-plugins
- plugins-cache
- plugins-osgi-cache
- plugins-temp
Then startup Confluence