Symptoms

Getting the following errors on the dashboard, spaces, pages and user profile although the related plugin is enabled and no customization is applied onto Confluence:

1. Error formatting macro: recently-updated: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/advanced/recentupdate/Theme
2. Error rendering macro 'recently-updated' : com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/advanced/recentupdate/Theme
3. Error rendering macro 'favpages' : com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/advanced/FavouritePagesMacro$1

Resolution

Clear the content inside <confluence-installation-directory>/temp folder and restart Confluence

Make a backup of <confluence-installation-directory>/temp just in case