Site content and structure

Refined sites are containers for categories and spaces. In other words, with Refined you add another level of organisation on top.

One Confluence instance can have several sites, and each site can work as an independent part of your Confluence with its own top menu, theme, and structure.

Site Builder

The Site Builder is the tool you use to create and manage your Refined sites:

• Build a site’s structure and navigation.

• Organise your spaces into categories.

• Apply themes.

To access the Site Builder, go to the Refined Administration and click the Site Builder tab.

Global site

By default, you will have one global site. You can activate Refined as the global theme to change the look and feel of your Confluence instance. Alternatively, you can keep the native Confluence look and feel and only apply Refined to specific spaces.

Global settings made in the Refined Administration apply to all sites, unless specific settings are applied on a site-level. 

Full sites and single space sites

When you add a site to your Refined setup, you can make it a Full Site or a Single Space site. 

A full site is a whole site with spaces, categories, and theming:

• It has its own site home. 

• It has its own URL

• If you hide the Site Switcher in the top left corner, you can create an independent Site within your Confluence. For instance, this lets you create a collaboration area for your technical documentation.

A single space site holds just one space:

• Instead of a category menu, the site has its navigation in the side bar.

• Instead of a site home, the site has the space home as its landing page. 

• You can set a theme on just this one space, and keep the default Confluence look and feel for the rest of your Confluence instance. 

• You can remove theming from this site.

Site navigation settings

Read more about customising the navigation experience for your users.

Site settings