Republish entire site will clear out your URL cache and recalculate all the urls for getting to each published page (handy if you move things around).

Publish X just makes that page (and its children) viewable on the website and pokes their content into cache etc.

Hope that helps?

Pete

Republish entire site will also re-create the XML cache (data\umbraco.config)

Thanks...  would i be right in thinking that there's some sort of cache table in the db and when i do "Republish Entire Site" it does a quick read of this cache and writes it to umbraco.config, whereas a normal page publish will gather all the data needed for a page, do validation etc, write it to the cache table and then finally output to umbraco.config?

That is correct.

Thanks guys

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