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• Why Confluence Cloud turns your SVG into a flat image

  Confluence Cloud flattens attached SVG files, so links and interactivity inside them stop working. Here is why it happens, what you lose, what you can do for free, and when you need an app.

• Diagrams in Confluence: draw.io, Mermaid, PlantUML or an attached SVG

  Four ways to keep diagrams in Confluence, compared honestly: who edits them, what survives, what costs money, and which one fits the diagram you actually have.

• How to get a Confluence table into Excel

  Confluence has no built-in table export. Here are the free ways that actually work, where each one breaks, and the point at which copying by hand stops being reasonable.

• How to find the Confluence pages nobody maintains any more

  Every large wiki hides hundreds of pages nobody has touched in years. Here is how to find them in Confluence Cloud with search filters and CQL, what the built-in tools cannot do, and how to run an audit that stays useful.

• How to import Word documents into Confluence Cloud

  Confluence Cloud imports .docx out of the box. Here is exactly how, what survives the trip, what breaks, and at what point a document migration stops being a copy-paste job.

• What to check before installing a Confluence app

  Where your data goes, what the Marketplace badges actually mean, how to tell an abandoned app from a quiet one, and what happens when you uninstall. A checklist for Confluence admins.

Replacing an app that is going away

Atlassian is switching off Connect apps, and several well-used Confluence apps have stopped being maintained. These cover the specific cases.

• Connect app end of life

  Atlassian is retiring the Connect platform. What the deadlines mean, how to find which of your Confluence apps are affected, and how to tell an abandoned app from one that is migrating.

• Mermaid for Confluence alternative

  Several Mermaid apps for Confluence were abandoned in 2024 and run on the retiring Connect platform. What your options are, including the free ones, and when a paid app is actually worth it.

• PlantUML for Confluence alternative

  PlantUML apps for Confluence abandoned since 2022 run on the retiring Connect platform. What your options are, including free ones, and what a Forge app reads today.

• SVG out alternative for Confluence Cloud

  SVG out for Confluence has not been updated since February 2023 and runs on the retiring Connect platform. What breaks, what your options are, and how to move your diagrams without losing links.