To remove layouts one at a time
The following steps show how to walk through the customizations to Confluence and remove them one by one to determine if one is causing the issue. After removing a piece of customization, retest the issue at hand to see if it has been affected.
Before removing any customizations, copy it to a text file so it can be easily restored if needed
- Remove any custom HTML by navigating to
Confluence Admin > Custom HTML - Remove any custom CSS by navigating to
Confluence Admin > Custom Stylesheet - Remove any Layout customizations by navigating to
Confluence Admin > Layouts and change any non-default section to default
You may need to clear your browser cache to see the above changes
To remove all layouts at once
The following steps will remove all layout changes to the site. This is a good option to determine immediately if customizations are indeed causing a problem.
Create a full backup of the database before executing the following
- Shutdown Confluence
- (optional) Create a backup of the 'DECORATOR' table
Run the following SQL which will delete all layouts applied to the site
DELETE from DECORATOR;
- Start Confluence