External Confluence sharing

Share Confluence pages externally

Share selected Confluence content with customers, partners and prospects without copying it into another CMS or making people navigate your internal workspace.

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Customers

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Prospects

Stakeholders

They visit the published website — not your Confluence workspace.

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How should you share your Confluence content?

Answer four quick questions to find the best way to share Confluence pages with customers, partners, employees, or the public.

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We will compare public links, anonymous access, guest access, manual sharing, and publishing as a simple website.

The short answer

Yes — there are several ways to share Confluence externally.

You can give people Confluence access, use Confluence's public sharing options, export the content, or publish it through a separate external website.

The right option depends on whether the reader needs to collaborate in Confluence or simply needs to read the information.

If they only need the content, publishing selected pages separately can give them a cleaner experience while your team continues maintaining the source in Confluence.

Ways to share

Four ways to share Confluence pages externally

Each approach solves a slightly different problem.

1. Give the reader Confluence access

This makes sense when an external person genuinely needs to collaborate, comment or work inside Confluence.

Best for: collaborators who need workspace functionality.

2. Use Confluence public sharing

Confluence offers ways to make content available without normal workspace access. This can be enough when the Confluence-hosted experience suits your use case.

Compare public links and anonymous access

3. Export or copy the content

PDFs and copied documents are simple for one-off sharing, but they create another version that can become outdated when the source changes.

See an alternative to PDF exports

4. Publish selected pages with Satori Cloud

Keep the source in Confluence and publish the selected pages as a separate, customer-facing website.

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With Satori Cloud

Share externally without moving the source content

Your team keeps working in Confluence. Satori handles the external version.

01

Connect Confluence

Connect the workspace containing your source content.

02

Choose pages

Select the pages you want external readers to see.

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Preview

Sync the latest content and check the draft before publishing.

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Publish

Publish the external site when you're ready for readers to see it.

External audiences

What are you trying to share?

Customer help content

Publish support articles and reusable answers as a public knowledge base.

Public knowledge base →

Customer onboarding

Share implementation steps, setup guidance and onboarding resources.

Customer onboarding hub →

Prospects

Share technical, product and implementation information during sales conversations.

Prospect resources →

Developers and partners

Publish external API documentation and implementation guidance.

External API docs →

Security reviewers

Share approved security, privacy and compliance information.

Create a trust center →

Product users

Turn product guides and technical documentation into a customer-facing site.

Product documentation →

When Satori fits

Use Confluence internally. Publish externally.

Satori is designed for the gap between an internal Confluence workspace and the people who only need to read some of its content.

Your team already maintains the source content in Confluence.

External readers do not need to collaborate inside Confluence.

You want to choose exactly which pages become external.

You want changes reviewed before they replace the published version.

No-login sharing

Want to share pages without giving people Confluence access?

Read the main guide to publishing selected Confluence pages for people who should not need a workspace account.

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FAQ

Sharing Confluence pages externally

Can I share Confluence pages with external users?

Yes. Options include giving external users Confluence access, using public sharing features, exporting the content, or publishing selected pages separately.

Do external users need a Confluence account?

Not necessarily. With Satori Cloud, readers visit the published website rather than logging into your Confluence workspace.

Can I choose which Confluence pages are shared?

Yes. Satori lets you select the pages that should appear on the published site rather than automatically publishing an entire space.

What happens when the Confluence page changes?

You can sync the latest source content into a Satori draft, preview the changes and then publish when you are ready.

Is publishing different from Confluence anonymous access?

Yes. Anonymous access makes content available through Confluence itself. Satori publishes selected content as a separate external website. Read more in our alternative to Confluence anonymous access .

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Public knowledge base from Confluence

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Share selected Confluence content with customers, partners, prospects, and external stakeholders.

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Publish selected pages without inviting readers into your Confluence workspace.

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Reduce stale public docs by keeping Confluence as the source.

Publish product docs from Confluence

Publish setup guides, reference pages, and how-to content from Confluence.

Publish release notes from Confluence

Keep release notes in Confluence and publish a cleaner version for users.

Publish partner resources from Confluence

Share selected guidance with partners and prospects.

Share the page. Not the workspace.

Keep your content in Confluence and publish the selected pages your external audience needs.

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