# Public boards

> Share a board as a read-only web page – lists and cards for everyone with the link, without an account. Choose what it shows; comments and people are never shown; confidential boards can never be public.

Source: https://contals.com/docs/en/boards/public-board/  
Last updated: 2026-10-16

A public board is a read-only web page of one board: its lists and cards for anyone with the link, without an account – a program for parents, a roadmap for a congregation, the packing list of a camp. Nobody can change anything there.

## Publish a board

1. Board header → **Settings** → **Public page**.
2. Switch on **Publish this board as a public page**. The **Link to the public page** appears: **Copy** it or **Open the page**.
3. Choose what **The page shows**: **Labels**, **Due dates** (where the due-dates Power-Up is on), **Checklist progress**, **Card descriptions** and **Done cards**. Labels, due dates and done cards are on at first; checklist progress and descriptions are off.

Only the board's admins can do this. **Never shown:** comments, people on cards, activity, custom fields and attachments – names of people are personal data of people who did not publish the page, and comments are conversations.

## What visitors see

- The board's title and its open lists, in order; per list its first 100 cards and how many more there are.
- Per card: the title, the card number (when the board shows card numbers), done – and what you switched on.
- **Read only**, the time of the page, and at the end "Created with Contals" and **Report abuse**.

The page is rendered on the server and readable without JavaScript. It does not use the board's live connection: card changes reach it within two minutes; switching it off or changing what it shows takes effect within 30 seconds.

## Search engines and links

By default the page tells search engines not to index it. Organizations on a paid plan (verified organizations) can switch on **Let search engines find the page**; for them, web addresses in card descriptions are clickable links, too. Everybody else's descriptions stay plain text.

## A new link, switching off

- **New link** creates a new address; the old one stops working within 30 seconds everywhere. Use it when a link reached the wrong people.
- Switching the page off ends it. Switching it on again brings back the same link.
- A board that becomes [confidential](/docs/en/settings/board/#confidential-board) loses its public page, and a confidential board cannot have one.
- If Contals takes a page down after a report, it stays off and the section says why.

## Limits

| | Free | Team | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public pages that are on (per organization) | 1 | 25 | 100 |

Every switch, change and new link is recorded in the [audit log](/docs/en/settings/audit-log/).

## See also

- [Board settings](/docs/en/settings/board/)
- [Date polls and booking pages](/docs/en/power-ups/scheduling/) – the other public pages of a board
- [Calendar subscriptions](/docs/en/views/across-boards/) – due dates in a calendar app