Themes

By applying a theme to a Confluence space, you personalize the look of all pages (except the space overview, which you can fully customize using the page builder). You can choose a ready-made theme or create your own.

Before applying a theme to a space for the first time, you need to activate Refined Toolkit.

Who can manage themes?

As a Confluence administrator, you can create global themes that become available to all space administrators in your Confluence instance. Whenever you make changes to this theme, those changes apply to all spaces that use the theme. Furthermore, Confluence administrators can:

Set the default theme, which is used when theming is applied to a space for the first time.
See which Confluence spaces are themed.
Export and import themes.
Decide if space administrators are allowed to create their own themes.

As a space administrator, you can create a local theme (only available to your space) or use one of the global themes created by a Confluence administrator.

Create and apply a theme (space administrators)

As a space administrator, you can create a local theme:

Click the Space settings in the left-hand menu.
In the Theming section, select Configure Refined Toolkit.
Click the Change theme button > Create a theme for this space.

You can make changes to the theme later by clicking the Edit button.

Space administrators can only create themes if the Confluence administrator allows this (read more below).

Create and manage themes (Confluence administrators)

Confluence administrators can manage all themes in their Confluence instance.

In Confluence, click on the Cogwheel in the top-right corner.
In the left-hand Settings menu, locate Refined Toolkit and click Configuration.
Adjust settings in the Configuration tab or the Themes tab.

Configuration tab

Here, you can:

Set the default theme, which is used when theming is applied to a space for the first time.
Decide if space administrators are allowed to create their own themes.

Themes tab

Here, you can manage all themes that are used in your Confluence instance:

Click the Create Theme button to make a new global theme.
Promote a local theme to a global theme, to make it accessible to everyone in your Confluence instance. Create a copy of the local theme (the new theme you created is a global one), remove the local theme (the original theme), and apply the newly created global team to the space that used to have the local theme.
Rename themes.
Export and import themes. If you’d like to use a theme on multiple Confluence Cloud instances, simply export and import it.
1. Go to the Themes tab of the instance where the theme is located.
2. Click the theme’s Cogwheel button > Export.
3. Go to the Themes tab of the other instance and click the Import button (at the bottom of the page).

Deactivate theming on a space

The space overview experience overrides the default homepage of a space. To retrieve the content from the default homepage, just disable Refined Toolkit for that space.

Navigate to a space.
Go to Space settings in the left-hand menu.
Under Global look and feel, click Theming.
Select Global look and feel and confirm.