If your goal is to only publish the code without evaluating it (and thus skip generating any figures), you can go to Edit Publishing Settings and set "Evaluate Code" to false. This will publish your script with the code and comments but without running it—great for faster publishing.
However, if you're still evaluating the code and just want to avoid figure windows popping up during publishing (which can slow things down), MATLAB currently does not have a built-in option to suppress figure windows while still including them in the published output (as of R2025a).
As a workaround, you can programmatically control which figures to include and close them after capturing. You’ll find helpful details and a workaround in this article:
Hope this helps!
