# Keep a Confluence page off a published site

To keep a Confluence page off a site published with Capable Sites, add the label `capable-sites-exclude` to the page in Confluence, then run Update and Promote. The page disappears from the site, its search and its sitemap. Page restrictions do not do this, and child pages need the label too.

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## Before you start

* You need permission to add labels to the page in Confluence.
* To publish the site, you need to be a Confluence admin or a collaborator on it.
* To hide a whole space, remove it from the site in **Settings** \> **Spaces & URLs** instead.

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## Steps

1. Open the page in Confluence.
2. Add the label `capable-sites-exclude`.
3. Add the same label to each child page you also want left out.
4. In Capable Sites, open your site and select **Update** on its **Overview**.
5. Check the staging preview no longer has the page, then select **Promote**.

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## If it does not work

* **The page is still live.** The label only takes effect on the next Update, and the live site only changes when you promote.
* **Its children are still there.** Child pages are not excluded with their parent. Label each one.
* **You used your own label.** Only `capable-sites-exclude` and `scroll-help-center-exclude-page` work.

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## Related

### [Excluding pages](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/excluding-pages.html)

The two labels and what they do.

### [Page I restricted in Confluence is visible on my public site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/page-i-restricted-in-confluence-is-visible-on-my-public-site.html)

Why restrictions are not enough.

### [Hide a page from search engines](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/hide-a-page-from-search-engines.html)

Keep it on the site, out of search.

### [Publishing and updating your site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publishing-and-updating-your-site.html)

More publishing guides.

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_Labels only. Restrictions are not exclusion._