# Publish several Confluence spaces as one site

To publish several Confluence spaces as one site, open the site's **Settings** in Capable Sites, choose **Spaces & URLs** and select **Add space**. Drag the spaces into order and pick a home space. Then choose a navigation **Style** under **Navigation**, optionally group spaces into categories, and run Update and Promote.

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## Before you start

| **You need**            | **Why**                                                                                                                                                   |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| A Confluence admin      | Only admins can add spaces, reorder them, or change slugs, public names and the home space. Collaborators can change the navigation style and categories. |
| An existing site        | To start from scratch, add all the spaces in the **Scope** step of the create wizard instead.                                                             |
| At most 100 spaces      | That is the limit per site, though navigation gets crowded long before it.                                                                                |
| Spaces you have checked | Confluence page restrictions do not carry over. Every page in an added space is published unless it has the capable-sites-exclude label.                  |

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## Steps

1. Open Capable and choose **Sites**. Expand your site in the sidebar and select **Settings**.
2. Select **Spaces & URLs**, then **Add space**, and choose the spaces to publish.
3. Drag the rows into the order visitors should see. This is the navigation order.
4. Optionally change a space's **Public name** or **URL slug**. Select the house button on the space the site should open on.
5. Select **Save changes**, then **Settings** to go back.
6. Select **Navigation** and pick a **Style**: **Switcher**, **Tabs** or **Sidebar picker**. Turn on **Space avatars** to show each space's icon.
7. Optionally select **Add category**, name it, and drag spaces into it. Then select **Save changes**.
8. On the site's **Overview**, select **Update**. Check the staging preview, then select **Promote** and **Promote to production**.

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## Which navigation style to choose

| **Style**          | **Best for**                                                                       |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Switcher**       | A handful of spaces. A space menu sits in the site header.                         |
| **Tabs**           | When every space should be visible at once. A bar of spaces sits under the header. |
| **Sidebar picker** | Lots of spaces. A space card above the page tree opens a searchable list.          |

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## What happens next

After you promote, each space lives under its own slug, such as `/docs/`, and the navigation lists the spaces in your order. Spaces outside any category come first, then each category under its heading. Categories are headings only: they have no page of their own and never nest. Without a home space, the site opens on a generated page with a card for each space.

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## A few things that catch people out

* A category with no name is not published.
* Changing a space's slug moves every page in it. Add [redirects](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/redirects.html) from the old addresses if people link to them.
* Removing a space takes its pages off the live site when you next promote.
* If the preview does not match the style you chose, see [Appearance preview does not match the navigation style I chose](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/appearance-preview-does-not-match-the-navigation-style-i-chose.html).

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## Related

### [Spaces, URLs and navigation](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/spaces-urls-and-navigation.html)

Order, slugs and the home space.

### [Unified product portal](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/unified-product-portal.html)

One site for every product space.

### [Add your logo and brand colours to a Confluence site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/add-your-logo-and-brand-colours-to-a-confluence-site.html)

Make it look like yours.

### [Redirects](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/redirects.html)

Keep old links working after a slug change.

### [Designing your site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/designing-your-site.html)

All design guides.

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_Many spaces. One site. One navigation._