👋 Hello everyone,

I'm excited to share some great news with you all! My name is Ben, and I'm part of the team working on enhancing the Confluence Data Center experience. We have been listening to your feedback and are thrilled to announce the ability to use templates in blog posts, starting in Confluence 9.3. Similar to how this works in Confluence Cloud, you’ll be able to create Confluence pages using templates, and convert these pages to blog posts.

How to use a template in your blog posts:

1. Create a new page using your desired template.
2. Once your page is published, use the "Convert to blog post" option to turn your page into a blog post with your desired template.

We will close this ticket for now, as we believe the workaround provided will unblock your workflow, and we are pleased with the overall experience it offers.

We appreciate your patience and continued feedback as we work to improve Confluence Data Center. Please keep your suggestions coming!

Thanks!

Ben

Our App "Editor Templates" may help to work around this issue. Check it out:

Editor Templates for Atlassian Confluence
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1232674

Demo Video on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@brutscher-it

See all Apps 
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1219050/it-beratung-dirk-brutscher

Any suggestions? Feel free to give us advice to help us provide better apps.

Surely this needs to be changed to a bug? Your own blog says this is possible: Use Confluence for blogging and outline your blog process (atlassian.com)

Now let’s go to Step 2 – Draft your blog. When our blog authors are ready to get their Hemingway on, they click the button “Create public blog post from template.”

Why would you have this page if you don't provide the feature and don't even consider it? https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/confluence-for-blogging

This is disappointing. The product would have been so much better with this function.

I see this has been moved to "not being considered", and yet I also see a blog post from an Atlassian employee from November 2018...

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/confluence-for-blogging

and wondering how the following is possible:

Use a page template to get blog authors started and ensure consistency

Now let’s go to Step 2 – Draft your blog. When our blog authors are ready to get their Hemingway on, they click the button “Create public blog post from template.”

Templates: Confluence lets you create page templates that can be used again and again. By standardizing with a page template, you’ll establish a level of consistency for all your blog posts. Learn more about Creating a template in Confluence.

@Martin: "You must never forget for whom you are doing it, for the customer not for the shareholders."

Oooh no, sorry, but the first loyalty of any profit-making company is to its shareholders.

Customers are merely a means to that end.

I'm not just being cynical here, this is literally how capitalism works.

15 year anniversary incoming...

I'd also be interested in this feature which I consider to be rather basic.

Atlassian products are heavy on the budget already, throw us a bone here please.

You must never forget for whom you are doing it, for the customer not for the shareholders.