Extending Confluence

If the fundamental features of Confluence do not meet your needs, don’t worry – you still have options. First, you can enhance Confluence by adding extra functionalities by installing apps from the Atlassian Marketplace. Alternatively, you can either develop your applications or commission them to be built by others. Now, let’s delve deeper and explore how these strategies work.

Installing applications via the Atlassian Marketplace

The Atlassian Marketplace offers many applications for Confluence that you can review, try, and purchase. Similar to Confluence licenses, you can easily access these applications through a monthly or yearly subscription. In the following screenshot, you can see the welcome screen of the Atlassian Marketplace, which you can access from https://marketplace.atlassian.com:

Figure 13.2 – The Atlassian Marketplace

As you can see, there is a search bar at the very top of the screen...