Hosted sites
Publish a collection as a documentation site on andesine.page or your own domain, with no code.
The Andesine Pages extension turns a collection into a documentation site. Andesine builds and hosts the site, and updates it each time you publish. Sites have navigation, search, AI answers, and pages that AI agents can read.
Create a site
Install the extension
Go to Settings → Extensions → Catalog, select Andesine Pages, and install it. See Use extensions.
Open the collection
Open the menu of the collection that holds your docs, and open the Setup page of Andesine Pages. Publishing must be on for the collection.
Create the site
In Address, type a subdomain of 3 to 40 letters, digits, or hyphens. In Source, choose the channel that the site shows. Then select Create site. The site is at
https://<subdomain>.andesine.page.Publish
Publish the collection. The first build starts, and the site shows the published content when it is done.
How the site is built
Each collection becomes a navigation group, and each entry becomes a page.
An entry named
indexis the landing page of its collection.The site shows only published content from its channel. Edits show after you publish them.
Elements such as callouts, cards, steps, and tabs show as site components. The extension also shows these components in the editor, so they look the same while you write. See Elements.
The site builds each time you publish to its channel. The Builds page shows the last five builds and their status. Select Rebuild to build the site again.
Site settings
The Site page of the collection is the overview of the site. To change the settings, open the General, Appearance, Navigation, and Content and AI pages of the site:
Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
Name and logo | The name in the header, page titles, and link previews; an icon or a full wordmark |
Favicon | The icon in the browser tab |
Colours | The primary colour for links and buttons, and the colours of gradients |
Links | A call-to-action button in the header, links in the navigation, and social links |
Page actions | Copy a page as Markdown, or open it in ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity |
Link previews | Generated preview images for each page, or one image for all pages |
AI answers | Answers in the site search; each answer uses the workspace's AI credits |
Instructions for agents | Text for AI agents in the Markdown pages and |
Language | The language tag of the site, such as |
Select Open site to see the site.
Custom domains
On the Pro plan, you can serve the site from your own domain, such as docs.example.com.
On the Domains page, select Add a domain and type the domain.
Add the CNAME and TXT records that it shows at your DNS provider.
Wait until the status changes from Waiting for DNS to Active.
The primary domain is used in canonical links. On the Free plan, sites show a Powered by Andesine Pages credit. Removing the credit also needs the Pro plan.
Template version and self-hosting
The Template setting shows the Andesine Pages version that builds the site. Update it to get new features. To host the site yourself, download the site's andesine.config.ts in Self-hosting and build it with the Pages framework.
Delete a site
Select Delete the site. The address stops working. The collection and its content do not change.