Publishing & Hosting

Host Shorthand stories on your servers — or ours.

One-click S3 publishing

Publish your Shorthand story to an Amazon S3 bucket with a single click. Simply configure your S3 settings in Shorthand.

Full story export

Download your story as a zip archive — including code, media, and a full JSON representation of your story — and host it wherever you like.

Host with Shorthand

Shorthand-hosted stories can be published to a domain or subdomain of your choice — including at shorthandstories.com.

Story embed

Embed your Shorthand story into any web page. This is as simple as copying and pasting a code snippet that's automatically generated for you.

  • Asset server

    Host your images and videos separately from your story HTML.

  • WordPress & Drupal

    Use our plugins to tightly integrate Shorthand with your WordPress or Drupal CMS.

  • Story API

    Use the Story API to integrate with Content Management Systems and custom plugins.

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