See above the ticket...

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will do it, although the created links are forever somehow other than "naturally" linked pages.

Please reconsider re-implementing this feature. Just consider the time effort here. 

In the past... type clickety type add '[' typedytype add ']'. Publish, click, edit    2 seconds additional effort to link to a new page. Never mind being able to continue authoring the article/page you are currently working on without losing the flow. 

Today: typedi type. curse!. Save current page. Create new page. Add title. save. Go back, edit, find link, publish. 

At least 3 additional steps, probably adds at least 20 seconds to the process. Never mind the frustration every time you consider a link. This is basically taking all the benefits of hyper text out of hyper text. 

this seems like such a core function of creating a wiki

Write text
Select text 
Create link to text to a new page that automatically has the name of the selected text

DONE

Now I can keep going on my current page and know that my new blank page is there waiting to remind me to fill it. 

Why you can't pick - Undefined Page from the Cmd-K menu is beyond me.... yet again another strange  Atlassian decision.

Come on @atlassian, we can do better than this! 

I tried using the work-around and it takes longer to use than the alternative: create a new page, name it and go back to the parent and add the the link to your newly created placeholder page. The work-around also doesn't adopt the link name as the default page title.

My guess is the workaround provided at the bottom of the page IS the fix.  Still seems like a "workaround" to me and not a "fix".  I hope there will be a more intuitive built-in "fix" in the future.

Has this feature been abandoned?  Its a shame if so.  It was an essential feature.  The work around just gives me an error.

Eh.. is this issue really "Fixed" if the solution is to use the rather cumbersome workaround? Is there an issue tracking fixing it in a user-friendly way?

EDIT: the workaround doesn't  actually provide the functionality of future-page-link. If I have multiple such "workaround" links, they will NOT automatically link to the page if it's created in the future. (not even the one I clicked..)

The "workaround" seems to be to link to the create new page?! That does not qualify as a workaround for this feature IMO..

Hi Everyone,

This is Mike from the Confluence team.
Great news – we have now released links to undefined placeholder pages!

Here are some documents for reference:

• Community post: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Link-to-undefined-placeholder-pages/ba-p/1412785
• Support documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-links-and-anchors/#InsertLinksandAnchors-Linktoanundefinedplaceholderpageundefinedpages
• Our cloud blog for future updates

Just noticed it is finally working in our Confluence instance. So roll-out has indeed started. Hope you all get it soon as well!