Tutorials and guides

The tutorials and guides listed on this page are for Confluence Server and/or Data Center.

Developing for Cloud? Check out the tutorials and guides for Confluence Cloud.

Beginner tutorials

• Confluence blueprints
• Write a simple Confluence space blueprint
• Adding Confluence keyboard shortcuts
• Create a Confluence 'Hello World' macro
• Write a simple Confluence blueprint plugin
• Writing a Confluence theme
• Extending autoconvert

Intermediate tutorials

• Extending the highlight actions panel
• Adding new Confluence to Hipchat notifications
• Adding items to the info banner
• Extending the Confluence insert link dialog
• Extending the image properties dialog
• Write an intermediate blueprint plugin
• Writing a macro using JSON
• Posting notifications in Confluence
• Adding a custom action to Confluence
• Unit testing plugins

Advanced tutorials

• Using the v2 Search API
• Create a search decorator
• Add a field to CQL
• Create a search extractor
• Create an attachment text extractor
• Write an advanced blueprint plugin
• Defining a pluggable service in a Confluence plugin
• Creating an admin Configuration form
• Creating a Wikipedia macro

SDK tutorials

Looking for other products and for the cross-product frameworks? Start with the Atlassian SDK tutorials page.

Guides

See all developer guides

Legacy tutorials

These tutorials apply to Confluence versions that have reached end of life. 

• Adding an option to the editor insert menu
• Preventing XSS issues with macros in Confluence 4.0
• Writing Soy templates in your plugin
• Upgrading and migrating an existing Confluence macro to 4.0
• Providing an image as a macro placeholder in the editor
• Extending the macro property panel
• Sending emails in a plugin
• Writing macros for pre-4.0 Versions of Confluence
• Adding menu items to Confluence