# Publishing

Publishing is deliberately two-stage, and every Confluence edit needs both stages again. Nothing publishes automatically.

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## In this section

[Update and promoteThe two-stage publish, what each stage touches, and why the live site never changes by surprise.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/update-and-promote.html)[Exporting instead of publishingThe same build, handed to you as a zip.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/exporting-instead-of-publishing.html)[Taking a site downDiscard a preview, take the live site offline, or delete the site entirely. Three different things.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/taking-a-site-down.html)[Export to ZIP](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/export-to-zip.html)

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## Related

[Limits and quotasThe hourly cap.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/limits-and-quotas.html)

[TroubleshootingWhen the live site looks stale.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/troubleshooting.html)

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_Update builds. Promote publishes. Neither happens by itself._