# What Capable Sites is

Capable Sites turns Confluence spaces into a static website. You pick the spaces, theme it, decide who can see it, and publish. Each site gets an address of its own, and you can put a custom domain on top.

The thing to understand first is that publishing is two-stage on purpose. Nothing you write in Confluence reaches the public site until you say so, twice.

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## Update, then Promote

![A deployment panel with Export and Update buttons, a staging row with a Promote button, and a production row marked live.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/1daefa41-c4d9-411f-a6c8-e510edd3a7a7.webp)

Update rebuilds the staging preview, Promote copies it to production, and Export takes the same build away as a ZIP.

![Site overview panel for Capable Help Center with a Live badge and the address help.gocapable.com, a Deployment card with Export and Update buttons, a staging row with a Promote button, a live producti](https://help.gocapable.com/images/20332f6a-dc5e-4148-920c-1adb6a25c962.webp)

Staging and production are listed separately, so the live site changes only when you promote.

| **Stage**   | **What it does**                                                                                            |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Update**  | Builds the whole site into a private staging preview you can open and share. The live address is untouched. |
| **Promote** | Copies that exact build onto the live address, and clears the CDN cache.                                    |

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**Nothing publishes automatically.** Every Confluence edit needs a new Update and a new Promote. There is no auto-publish, no scheduled rebuild, and no way to turn one on.

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## What a published site is

![Published documentation site called Capable Help Center, with a blue header and search box, a row of space tabs, a left page tree, an article titled Welcome to Capable, and an On this page list on the](https://help.gocapable.com/images/f2d7343a-058b-4bf7-8ef2-2f7c263c0b9a.webp)

A live site with the space tab bar, the page tree and the on this page list all generated from the Confluence content.

* HTML pages, built from your Confluence content.
* A Markdown twin of every page, plus per-page JSON.
* A title-only search box.
* Sitemaps, and files aimed at AI tools: llms.txt, llms-full.txt and mcp.json.

It is a snapshot. The site does not query Confluence when somebody visits it, which is why it stays up and fast regardless of what your Confluence instance is doing.

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## The limits worth knowing now

![Macro Stats screen in the Sites panel headed Results from the last successful build, listing supported macros such as Excerpt, Button, Diagrams, details and Children Display with their vendor and a co](https://help.gocapable.com/images/363f2e4d-8750-4d96-b2a3-8289dfd5b237.webp)

The Macros screen reports every macro the last successful build processed, and how many times each one appeared.

| **Limit**                   | **Value**                      |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Sites per tenant            | 3 on Standard, 10 on Advanced  |
| Spaces per site             | 100                            |
| Published files per site    | 1 GB                           |
| Publish operations per hour | 12 per site, and 12 per tenant |
| Custom domains per site     | 1                              |

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## A few things worth knowing

* A staging preview lasts 90 days and then 404s. Promote before it expires, or rebuild.
* Every deploy rebuilds the whole site. The incremental option in settings is permanently disabled.
* Uninstalling the app destroys every published site in the tenant.

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## Related

[Your first siteBuild one.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/your-first-site.html)

[PublishingUpdate, promote, export.](https://help.gocapable.com/sites/publishing.html)

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_Update builds it. Promote publishes it._