# 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.

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## Common tasks

| **You want to**                                | **Go to**                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Create your first public documentation site    | [Publish Confluence pages as a public documentation site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publish-confluence-pages-as-a-public-documentation-site.html)           |
| Make one space public without anonymous access | [Make a Confluence space public without anonymous access](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/make-a-confluence-space-public-without-anonymous-access.html)           |
| Get Confluence edits onto the live site        | [Update a published Confluence site after editing pages](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/update-a-published-confluence-site-after-editing-pages.html)             |
| Leave a page out of the site                   | [Keep a Confluence page off a published site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/keep-a-confluence-page-off-a-published-site.html)                                   |
| Find a page or image that is not on the site   | [Fix a page or image missing from a published Confluence site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/fix-a-page-or-image-missing-from-a-published-confluence-site.html) |
| Understand the two-stage publish               | [Update and promote](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/update-and-promote.html)                                                                                     |
| Check what is and is not published             | [What becomes a page](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/what-becomes-a-page.html)                                                                                   |
| Walk through the create wizard                 | [Your first site](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/your-first-site.html)                                                                                           |

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## 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.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publish-confluence-pages-as-a-public-documentation-site.html)[Update a published Confluence site after editing pagesGet your Confluence edits onto the live site with Update, then Promote.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/update-a-published-confluence-site-after-editing-pages.html)[Keep a Confluence page off a published siteLeave a single Confluence page out of a published site with one label.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/keep-a-confluence-page-off-a-published-site.html)[Make a Confluence space public without anonymous accessPut a Confluence space on the public web without turning on anonymous access in Confluence.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/make-a-confluence-space-public-without-anonymous-access.html)[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.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/fix-a-page-or-image-missing-from-a-published-confluence-site.html)

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## Related

### [Publishing](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publishing.html)

Update, promote and export.

### [Publishing problems](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publishing-problems.html)

When a publish goes wrong.

### [Frequently asked questions](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/frequently-asked-questions.html)

Quick answers.

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_Update builds it. Promote publishes it._