Markdown in Confluence Cloud

[Jesse DeRose]

What's the easiest way to use Markdown in Confluence Cloud? (Or at the very least, a better editor than the built-in WYSIWYG editor.) I know Atlassian discontinued built-in support but now we're left with nothing - not even the Source Editor plugin since that's only available for Confluence Server not Confluence Cloud.

[Robert Massaioli (Atlassian) · Accepted solution]

There is the Render Markdown add-on for Confluence Cloud. Does that match what you want?

[Jesse DeRose]

This is definitely one step in the right direction! Is this plugin configurable? For example, I'd like to move it onto the Confluence editor toolbar (rather than under Insert > Other Macros). AND I'd like to set the default Highlighting Style to "github" rather than "default".

[Robert Massaioli (Atlassian)]

I don't know. I think it's free and open source though. So why not just try it and see?

[Jesse DeRose]

That's why I was asking - it came pre-installed with our Cloud instance and I don't see any buttons/options to tweak it.

[Mohammed Davoodi]

Our organization has written a plugin, Markdown Render Macro for Confluence for rendering markdown in confluence cloud. You can check it out here. Here's a list of features:

• Loading markdown from a url
• Writing your own markdown
• Loading markdown from private Github repositories
• Loading markdown from private Bitbucket repositories