Site settings

Customize and edit settings across your published site

Certain customization features are only available on Premium and Ultimate site plans.

Update the settings for your published documentation.

General

Site title

Change the name of your site, if you don't have a custom logo this is the name that your site visitors will see.

Insights cookie

If you want to use GitBook’s built-in insights, your site will use cookies to identify returning visitors and gather the data needed to view those insights.

You can choose to disable these cookies, but it will prevent you from using GitBook’s built-in insights.

Unpublish site

Unpublish your site, but keep its settings and customizations. You can publish your site again at any time.

Delete site

Unpublish and remove your site from the Docs site section in the GitBook app.

Note: Deleting a site is a permanent action and cannot be undone. Any settings and customizations will be lost, but your content will remain in its space.

Access

Manage who can access and administer your docs site.

Open Access and click Manage permissions. You can also use Share from the site’s Overview page.

Site permissions are available on all plans.

By default, new sites derive permissions from their linked spaces, until you update permissions from the site permissions modal.

Site permissions can also affect the permissions of linked spaces that use Inherited mode. In this case, each inherited space receives the highest permission level granted by the organization, any parent collection, and any site that includes it.

Audience

Audience

Choose who sees your published content. See Publish a docs site for more info.

Adaptive content Ultimate

Turn on adaptive content for your site pages, variants, and sections. Adaptive content lets you hide or show content for different visitors, depending on their permissions.

Your visitor token signing key will also be displayed here.

Domain and URL

Custom domain

Configure a custom domain to unify your site with your own branding. See Set a custom domain for more info.

GitBook Subdirectory

Publish your content on a subdirectory (e.g. yourcompany.com/docs). See GitBook Subdirectory for more info

Redirects

Site redirects

Features

PDF export Premium & Ultimate

Let your visitors to export your GitBook as PDF. See PDF export for more info.

Page ratings Premium & Ultimate

Choose whether or not visitors to your published content can leave a rating on each page to let you know how they feel about it. They’ll be able to choose a sad, neutral, or happy face.

You can review the results of these ratings by opening the Insights section of your docs site dashboard and selecting the Content scores tab.

AI & MCP

Choose the AI experience Premium & Ultimate

Let your site visitors ask GitBook anything with AI search or the GitBook assistant. See AI Search for more info.

Extend it with MCP connectors Ultimate

Configure MCP servers that the AI assistant can use when answering user questions inside your docs. See AI Search for more info.

Structure

Site structure

Plan

Plans