# Spaces, URLs and navigation

A site publishes whole spaces. The order you put them in is the navigation order, each gets a URL slug, and one of them is the homepage.

That is most of the information architecture decided in one step.

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## What you control

![Published site homepage titled Capable Partner Portal, with a search box in the header and four cards for the spaces Partner Portal, Migration, Diagram Library and Vitafleet Public, each showing a pag](https://help.gocapable.com/images/ed50978b-f9f3-4edb-8ec1-44d60207d473.webp)

A site homepage built from the space card grid, with one card and a page count for each published space.

![A published site homepage with a search box and four cards named Partner Portal, Migration, Diagram Library and Vitafleet Public, each with a page count.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/dbfc77f8-8406-427d-8aa1-e1d193d82b51.webp)

With no home space set, the site opens on a generated grid of cards, one per space, each showing its page count.

![Site settings listing Confluence spaces in a table with editable URL slug fields, page counts, a home icon and reorder arrows.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/a167b824-cb52-40a8-9773-b58ffbd6446b.webp)

Every published space gets a row, with the slug that becomes its URL path and the number of pages it will contribute.

| **Control**          | **What it does**                                                   |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Space order          | Drag, or use the up and down buttons. This is the navigation order |
| URL slug             | The path each space publishes under. Two spaces cannot share one   |
| Homepage             | One space is the site root, chosen with the house button           |
| Published at preview | Shows the resulting URL live as you type                           |

Up to 100 spaces per site, though the navigation becomes unwieldy long before that.

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**A slug collision blocks you from continuing.** The message names both spaces: "X and Y both want the /slug URL".

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## Page order within a space

Page order follows the Confluence page tree. Reorder pages in Confluence and the site follows on the next publish.

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## A few things worth knowing

* Changing scope or order is a settings change, so it needs an Update and a Promote like any other change.
* Removing a space from a site removes its pages on the next publish, and the promote deletes the old files.
* The space picker greys out further options at 100.

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## Related

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

[What gets publishedWhat becomes a page.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/what-gets-published.html)

[Update and promoteMaking it live.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/update-and-promote.html)

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_Order the spaces. That is your navigation._