Publishing and updating your site

Capable Sites publishes in two steps. Update builds a private staging preview. Promote puts that preview on the live address. Nothing you change in Confluence reaches the live site until you do both, so you always see it before your readers do.

#Common tasks

You want to	Go to
Create your first public documentation site	Publish Confluence pages as a public documentation site
Make one space public without anonymous access	Make a Confluence space public without anonymous access
Get Confluence edits onto the live site	Update a published Confluence site after editing pages
Leave a page out of the site	Keep a Confluence page off a published site
Find a page or image that is not on the site	Fix a page or image missing from a published Confluence site
Understand the two-stage publish	Update and promote
Check what is and is not published	What becomes a page
Walk through the create wizard	Your first site

#Guides in this section

Publish Confluence pages as a public documentation siteTurn one or more Confluence spaces into a public documentation website in a few minutes.Update a published Confluence site after editing pagesGet your Confluence edits onto the live site with Update, then Promote.Keep a Confluence page off a published siteLeave a single Confluence page out of a published site with one label.Make a Confluence space public without anonymous accessPut a Confluence space on the public web without turning on anonymous access in Confluence.Fix a page or image missing from a published Confluence siteFind out why a Confluence page, image or attachment is not showing on your published site, and fix it.

Publishing

Update, promote and export.

Publishing problems

When a publish goes wrong.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers.

Update builds it. Promote publishes it.