Manually controlling when your content is published is sometimes critical in ensuring the consistency and integrity of your website.
By default, Super automatically syncs your content from Notion to your live site. However, in some cases you may need more control over when updates go live.
Super’s Manual Publishing feature allows you to control when your content is published to your server, while still previewing the latest Notion updates inside the Dashboard. This allows you to write, organize, design, and review changes before making them live.
What’s New: Publish Specific Pages (Page-Level Publishing)
Super now lets you publish individual pages rather than rebuilding your entire site every time you make a change. This feature gives you more control and flexibility, allowing you to update specific content quickly and efficiently without waiting for a full-site rebuild.
This means:
- You don’t need to publish the entire site just to update one page.
- Publishing is faster and more streamlined.
- Teams can work more efficiently, focusing on specific sections of a site.
- The scope of CDN clearing is reduced, minimizing potential delays for other pages.
Page-Level Publishing is especially helpful for:
- Blogs with frequent updates
- Large documentation sites
- Multi-page marketing websites
- Teams working on different sections of a site
When using Page-Level Publishing, only the selected page will be rebuilt and pushed live to your custom domain, saving time and resources while keeping your workflow flexible.
What is different when Manual Publishing is turned on?
When Manual Publishing is turned on, your Super Dashboard will continue to work as it always has and will preview the current Notion content and customizations. Any changes to the content in Notion and customizations (like code and SEO settings) will not be published to the live site on the connected domain until you publish them.
What happens when Manual Publishing is turned back off?
If you turn Manual Publishing off after it has been on, then the live site on the connected domain will start requesting updates from Notion and Super and your live site will start updating again automatically.
How to enable Manual Publishing
1. Ensure you have a Pro tier site
In order to activate manual publishing you will first need to upgrade your site on to a Pro tier plan. In order to do this you can click the ‘Upgrade now’ button on your site dashboard.
2. Connect a custom domain
Next, in order for manual publishing to work you must connect a domain. To add a domain to your site, head into your site dashboard and click into the Domains page, then click the Add a custom domain button.
See How to connect a custom domain to your website for more details.
Note that a Custom Domain MUST be connected to the site for Manual Publishing to work - without this, the live site will not update.
3. Enable Manual Publishing
Once you have upgraded to the Pro Tier and connected your custom domain, you can enable Manual Publishing by turning on the Manual Publishing toggle. When enabled the live site is only updated when you press the Publish updates button.
4. Work in the Dashboard as normal
Notion content changes will flow through to the Super dashboard automatically as you view different pages in the dashboard. Changes to custom code will apply in real time to the dashboard preview.
When Manual publishing is enabled, none of the updates from Notion or the changes that you make in the Super Dashboard will be published to the site on the connected domain.
You can also manually refresh a page by pressing the Dashboard refresh button. This will send a request to see if there is new content in Notion and rebuild the page if required.
If you would like to see a non-dashboard preview of the site, use the default super.site domain for your site. Only the custom domain will not receive the updates.
5. Publish Content to the Live Site
Once you’re ready to make updates live, Super gives you full control over how your content is published. You can either push all changes across your entire site or publish just a specific page. Choosing the right approach can save time and ensure your updates reach your audience efficiently.
Option A: Publish the Entire Site
If you want all updates across your site to go live at once, you can publish the entire site.
Press Publish now to start the process. When you publish:
- Super queues the request to the server.
- The CDN cache is cleared to ensure visitors see the latest content.
- The site rebuild process begins, updating all pages.
- Publishing status will show as Sync In Progress.
- Once complete, the Last published time will be updated to reflect the new content.
This option is best for major updates or full-site redesigns where every page has been modified.
Option B: Publish a Specific Page (Recommended for Faster Updates)
For faster updates, you can choose to publish only a single page where you added changes.
To publish a specific page:
- Open the page in your Dashboard.
- Select the page you want to publish and click Publish.
- Only that page will be rebuilt and updated on your live site.
Publishing individual pages reduces waiting time and avoids unnecessary full-site rebuilds. If no changes were detected on the page, the Last published time will remain unchanged.
This option is ideal for small updates, blog posts, or documentation pages where only certain sections have changed.