@ShaluPandey can you provide any details of broadly what theming will be supported?
Hi @james.dellow , I will have more definition once we start the design work in Q1. I can update this thread at that time.
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Any updates on when theming would be ready for Confluence Cloud?
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Hi @ShaluPandey
any updates on this topic? We have the same issues as @anon21166111.
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Any Updates? @ShaluPandey would really like to get an answer!
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Hi @ShaluPandey
Our organization has been postponing the migration to cloud in part awaiting resolution of the “theme problem”. Like others on this thread we rely on themes to conceal controls and format anonymous facing help content and outreach. We’d like to keep using Confluence but we really need your guidance on if / how you will support the theme functionality we rely on in the server environment. Thanks in advance for your update.
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It seems that Atlassian has abandoned the ability of theming Confluence? Or could someone please give an update?
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Hello-- any update on this from Atlassian? I see two timelines from different PMs above, but I’m stumbling on this in late 2023. The API docs are still misleading and cloud theme customization is not available. Marketplace solutions like Refined and Karma are not desirable for large teams… it gets quite expensive for something that should be doable out of the box. Is there a near-future plan to allow cloud theme customization? Thinking if no, may need to export docs from confluence, convert with pandoc to markdown, then use a static-site generator for free and abandon confluence. Thanks for any insight
After Atlassian’s latest announcement, it seems that theming isn’t a priority at the moment. Instead, they are focusing on offering formatting macros:
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hi guys. I’m from 2025. I’ve created a theme using this guide
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/getting-started-with-connect/
and seems like confluence doesn’t load a theme at all.
Also I tried to create a custom macro, but seems like Conflunce is just blocking all external CSS.
So are there any recommendation for custom styling our confluence pages?
Oh hey, I’m also from 2025. Could not even install npm due to failed dependencies trying to follow the same instructions you did. So yeah, doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to create a custom theme.
When we were on-prem we used Midori’s Better Content Archiving, and one of their enhancements was a custom them that put a sepia-toned background color on Archived spaces, along with a nice ARCHIVED watermark, which provided users with a nice and clear visual indicator that a page was no longer “current”:
When we migrated to Cloud, since page-level archiving was a built-in feature, we opted to not continue with a license for Midori’s app. Reading the docs for their Cloud edition, it doesn’t appear that they’ve been able to provide watermark feature there, so yeah, they’re probably as stuck as we are.
Bummer.
In case Google finds this, I came up with a not fully satisfying workaround.
I decided to mirror the default Page archiving banner, which looks like this:
I used a Page Header:
To achieve this I put this into Space settings → Look and feel → Layout → Header:
{panel:title=Space Archived|titleBGColor=#000000|titleColor=white|bgColor=#000000|color=white}
{color:white}This space has been archived.{color}
{panel}
(I’m trying to get the logo in there.)