Publish & share
Take your story live. Publishing, hosting, custom domains, CMS embeds, integrations, and sharing your work.
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Basics
Publish, republish, and manage your story’s visibility — from first publish to post-publish edits.
Hosting & domains
Host stories your way — Shorthand hosting, custom domains, and DNS setup.
- Shorthand hosting
- Shorthand Hosting — Troubleshooting Guide
- Custom subdomain hosting. Editing DNS and CNAME
- Whitelisting domains
- Self-hosting guidelines
- Export and self-host process
- Publish directly to an Amazon S3 or SFTP location
- IAM Role Authentication for S3 Publishing
- Publish directly to Azure Blob Storage
- Publish to Google Cloud Storage
Embed in CMS
Bring stories into your own site — the embed script, plus step-by-step guides for WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, and more.
- Shorthand Story Embed
- Plugins for WordPress and Drupal
- Installing the Shorthand for WordPress Plugin
- Shorthand WordPress plugin (pre 2026)
- Story Launcher
- Shorthand Drupal Plugin
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Joomla
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Concrete CMS
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Drupal
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Shopify
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Squarespace
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to WordPress
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to Webflow
- Adding your Shorthand Embed script to BigCommerce
Integrations
Connect Shorthand to your tools — publish notifications in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and more.