Finding the best Confluence plugins which are useful to you and your team can be quite difficult given the multiple number of plugins amount available.
For agile teams in 2023, these are 7 of the top recommended Atlassian Confluence plugins to improve processes. These plugins are listed on the Atlassian Marketplace and this post features a quick overview of each these plugins with use cases.
Advanced Microsoft Teams Confluence Connector by Move Work Forward
This is one is a team favourite and not just because it is recommended by the team that created it, but because this plug-in solves a real-life problem every agile team faces - staying on top of the many daily moving parts.
If your business has a remote team that uses confluence for documenting, you need this plugin. It helps to get regular updates on changes made to confluence pages directly on your Microsoft team channels so your team spends less time trying to find new changes and easily follow updates on confluence docs.
Use Case: For a product/ project manager that manages multiple products and teams. She can now get updates directly in her Microsoft Teams to product requirement documents and any comments.
This plug-in is available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence
GitHub Links for Confluence by Move Work Forward
Another great product created by the team at Move Work Forward for helping agile teams. This product particularly connects GitHub repositories to Atlassian Confluence so teams can display gists and source files from private and public repositories directly on Confluence pages with just a link.
Use Case: At the end of a development sprint, dev teams can use this plug-in to display release information by simply copying a link into confluence. You can learn more about integrating GitHub Links for Atlassian Confluence here
This plug-in is available for only cloud versions of Atlassian Confluence
Scroll Viewport for Confluence by K15t
K15t has a suite of apps for confluence - this suite is the Scroll Apps For Confluence. The plugin scroll viewport is under this suite of apps with the unique functionality of helping teams create help centres directly from confluence pages.
Teams are able to write text in the Atlassian Confluence spaces and publish the spaces as a help centre
Use-case: Using Scroll Viewport to transform your documentation in Confluence as a searchable, easy-to-navigate help centre that can be restricted or available publicly to users makes it easy for teams with customer service/ customer experience responsibilities to easily create help centres.
This plug-in is available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence.
Script runner for confluence by Adaptavist
The script runner for Atlassian Confluence provides powerful content management capabilities. With this plug-in, your team can
• Identify content that needs to be reworked or deleted using advanced searches; analyse it, then action it automatically.
• Save time by deleting trash, comments, attachments or old page versions in bulk, or remove all inactive users in one swoop.
This plug-in is available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence.
Draw.io Diagrams & Whiteboards by Draw.io
From whiteboards to diagrams, visualize everything, this integration is as simple as its name and it helps teams to create collaborative whiteboards and a wide variety of helpful diagrams.
It is very helpful for creating process flows, system architecture diagrams and more.
This plug-in is available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence.
Roadmaps for confluence by Aha
Next up is this awesome integration that helps you build Roadmaps and share them as a live view on any Confluence page. Roadmaps for confluence helps your team create great visual plans
Use Case: Product Teams can use this integration to define your product direction. Capture your vision, business model, and value proposition. Then set goals and initiatives and link them to actual work to see how everything ties together.
This plug-in is available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence.
Security & Encryption for Confluence by Appfire
Finally, the security & encryption plugin by Appfire helps your team personalize content by selectively displaying or hiding specific sections of Atlassian confluences pages depending on the audience
Your team can customize the content by designing sections that dynamically appear or disappear based on the specific viewer or contextual factors of the page.
This plug-in is also available for cloud and data centre versions of Atlassian Confluence.
What was the criteria for this list?
As a tech company and agile team, we work a lot with Atlassian products
We are both Atlassian app creators and users (we are the team behind GitHub Links for Confluence and Microsoft Teams Confluence Connector)
Some of the apps here are ones we subscribe to and use on a daily basis
We love apps that improve transparency, efficiency, and collaboration.
We hope you find these plug-ins helpful.
