• We collect Confluence feedback from various sources, and we evaluate what we've collected when planning our product roadmap. To understand how this piece of feedback will be reviewed, see our Implementation of New Features Policy.

      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      As previously announced, in order to better focus our development efforts on a single theme, we plan to remove the Documentation theme from Confluence.

      We know that many of you use the Documentation theme because you like to have a page tree in the space sidebar. The default theme's sidebar has had a page tree for some time now, plus other great features like sidebar shortcuts, JIRA links, and sticky table headers.

      To help you switch to the more modern default theme, we've added some of your favourite documentation theme features, including the ability to add:

      • a header and footer
      • custom content to the sidebar.

      These new additions to the default theme are available now for Cloud customers, and will be available in Confluence 5.9 for Server customers.

      If you'd like to read more about this change see the:

      If you have questions or concerns about this change, please comment on this issue.

      Update 27 April: The documentation theme has been removed from Confluence Cloud.
      See our frequently asked questions page for answers to all your questions about the default theme and migration process in Confluence Cloud.

      For Confluence Server customers, the documentation theme will be removed in Confluence 6.0. We'll provide plenty of information well in advance to help you prepare for the change.

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            [CONFSERVER-38256] Plans to remove the documentation theme

            Utterly sick of behaviour like this. Stick with what you recommend.

            Florian Heigl added a comment - Utterly sick of behaviour like this. Stick with what you recommend.

            @Rachel Robins 

            On 16/Feb/2016, you have told me, that you have passed my wish, that i'd like to see the source code of the space-jump macro, to the team.

            OK.
            And what has the team decided? Can i get the code or not?

            I try to develop something similar myself, anyway i still would love to see how it was implemented in the documentation-theme.

            Christoph Meier added a comment - @Rachel Robins  On 16/Feb/2016, you have told me, that you have passed my wish, that i'd like to see the source code of the space-jump macro, to the team. OK. And what has the team decided? Can i get the code or not? I try to develop something similar myself, anyway i still would love to see how it was implemented in the documentation-theme.

            Why does Atlassian not listen to the customers who frequently stated that they want to stay with the Documentation theme?

            For us this is a show stopper for any upgrade to 6.x.

            Hans-Peter Geier added a comment - Why does Atlassian not listen to the customers who frequently stated that they want to stay with the Documentation theme? For us this is a show stopper for any upgrade to 6.x.

            Bren Lane added a comment -

            When I setup our KB, it said to use the Documentation theme?  What happens to these spaces?  Do they need to be changed?

            Bren Lane added a comment - When I setup our KB, it said to use the Documentation theme?  What happens to these spaces?  Do they need to be changed?

            The easiest way is to disable it via space tools - configure sidebar and add the pagetree via space tools - look and feel - sidebar, header and footer. Just add {pagetree:sort=natural} to the Sidebar-Section, the Pagetree is shown without  the text an is customisable, too (like here sorted and so on, for other options look  at https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-tree-macro-163414255.html

            Dominik Greiwe added a comment - The easiest way is to disable it via space tools - configure sidebar and add the pagetree via space tools - look and feel - sidebar, header and footer. Just add {pagetree:sort=natural} to the Sidebar-Section, the Pagetree is shown without  the text an is customisable, too (like here sorted and so on, for other options look  at https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-tree-macro-163414255.html

             If you are using Confluence server (not the Cloud version), then you can add the following CSS to Confluence Admin > Custom HTML:

            <style type="text/css">h5.page-tree {display:none;}</style>

            Here is some additional reading.

            Jonathan Hult added a comment -  If you are using Confluence server (not the Cloud version), then you can add the following CSS to Confluence Admin > Custom HTML: <style type= "text/css" >h5.page-tree {display:none;}</style> Here is some additional reading.

            Did anyone find a way to remove the text "PAGE TREE" from the sidebar? For people who're not Confluence experts this makes no sense at all, so I'd like to change it to something more helpful. Any ideas?

            Felicity Chapman added a comment - Did anyone find a way to remove the text "PAGE TREE" from the sidebar? For people who're not Confluence experts this makes no sense at all, so I'd like to change it to something more helpful. Any ideas?

            To find out which spaces are currently using the Documentation theme, you can run the following SQL:

            SELECT bandanacontext FROM BANDANA WHERE bandanavalue LIKE '%com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme:documentation%';
            

            Robert Chang added a comment - To find out which spaces are currently using the Documentation theme, you can run the following SQL: SELECT bandanacontext FROM BANDANA WHERE bandanavalue LIKE '%com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme:documentation%' ;

            For all the folks who want the space-restricted search scope in the default theme... maybe it will help to vote for this issue: CONF-5338

            Tim Colson (Cisco) added a comment - For all the folks who want the space-restricted search scope in the default theme... maybe it will help to vote for this issue: CONF-5338

            Rachel, thanks, maybe that was my misunderstanding though.

            Mick Davidson added a comment - Rachel, thanks, maybe that was my misunderstanding though.

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