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Narrative Publish

Build your first Publish post: add and arrange photos, try tools like the Magic Wand and Lightbox, then publish it to your website.

Getting started with Publish

The keyboard shortcuts you can use in Publish on Mac.

Publish Keyboard Shortcuts

Sign in to Publish with your Narrative account through your web browser, or sign in manually in Publish if it's taking a while.

How do I sign in to Publish?

Find your way around the Publish home screen: see which posts are published, open, find and sort posts, and create a new one.

The Publish home screen

Use the Publish gallery panel to add photos to your post, sort and filter them, hide photos and add new photos automatically.

The Publish gallery panel

See what each button in the Publish toolbar does, from Home and the panels to source folder options, zoom, Magic Wand and padding.

The Publish toolbar

Work on the same Publish post from two Macs, for example with a virtual assistant, by connecting a copy of the post's photos.

Can Publish sync across two computers?

Getting Started

Click Create New Post and choose a folder of photos. Publish names the post after the folder, and you can rename it later.

Start a new blog post in Publish

Add photos to your Publish post with a single click, by dragging them into the layout, or all at once with the Magic Wand.

Add photos to your Publish post

Sort the Publish gallery, filter it by stars or colors, hide photos you won't use, and change the thumbnail size.

Filter and sort the Publish gallery

Let the Magic Wand add photos to your Publish post for you, choose how many it adds, and pick which photos it uses.

Build your Publish post with the Magic Wand

Add a text block to your Publish post, set its style, alignment and width, and add links to your text.

Add text to your Publish post

Turn on Lightbox so people can open the images in your Publish post full screen.

Show Publish images full screen with Lightbox

Add more photos or a whole folder to your Publish gallery by putting them in your post's source folder in Finder.

Add more photos to the Publish gallery

Turn on Auto Add New Images so photos you export into your source folder go straight into your Publish post.

Automatically add new photos to your Publish post

Remove empty placeholder blocks from your Publish post, or turn off the Automatic Layout Guide so they stop appearing.

Delete empty blocks from your Publish post

Make a copy of a Publish post from the All Posts screen, for example to publish the same post in another language.

Duplicate a Publish post

Building your Blog Post

Facebook Comments no longer works in Publish, as Meta shut down its comments plugin. Here's what to use instead.

Can I add Facebook Comments to my Publish posts?

Make the photos in your Publish post fade or slide in as visitors scroll, at a slow, medium or fast speed.

Add animation to your Publish post

Turn on Pinterest buttons in Publish so visitors can save the photos in your post to their Pinterest boards.

Add Pinterest buttons to your Publish post

Change an image's aspect ratio or crop it in Publish with the handles, the Ratio dropdown or Crop & Resize Image.

Crop or resize an image in your Publish post

Change the padding in Publish to set how much space sits between the photos and blocks in your post.

Change the spacing (padding) between your images

Add a button to your Publish post so visitors can download its photos in a zip file, and change how the button looks.

Add a Download Images button to your Publish post

Use Recycle Container Layout in Publish to cycle through layout options for a group of up to 3 blocks in your post.

Resize and rearrange images with Recycle Container Layout

Use the Blank Space block in Publish to add empty space around your photos, resize it and copy its shape to other blocks.

Add extra space around your images with Blank Space

Add animated GIFs to your Publish post from your source folder, and play or pause them while you build your layout.

Add GIFs to your Publish post

Set a maximum width for your Squarespace blog posts with a short piece of code, so your Publish posts aren't too wide or too narrow.

Change your blog width on Squarespace

Customising your Blog Post

Add SEO image descriptions to your photos in Publish, and learn what makes a description useful.

Add useful image descriptions in Publish

Turn on the Image Descriptions Overlay in the Publish SEO panel to see which photos in your post still need a description.

Find Missing Descriptions with the Image Descriptions Overlay

Learn how Google reads your Publish post, and how to check your post is ready for search engines.

How Google can read your Publish post

Write clear titles, meta descriptions, image descriptions and text in Publish to help people find your posts.

Write useful SEO content in Publish

Add the preview text and featured image yourself when your WordPress or Squarespace blog page doesn't show them for a Publish post.

Add preview text and a featured image to your Publish post

Optimise your SEO

Tell Publish your website's address and host, then connect the WordPress plugin or set up embed code before you publish.

Setting your publishing details

Learn what happens when you publish a Publish post, and find the guide for WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Showit and other websites.

Publishing to your website

Add the same Publish post to more than one website with its embed code, even if you usually use the WordPress plugin.

Can I publish a post to more than one website?

Compare publishing a Publish post to your website with exporting it as JPGs, and see which features each one keeps.

Publishing vs exporting JPGs

Move your Publish posts to a new website safely, with embed code or the WordPress plugin.

Move Publish posts to a new website

Check your Squarespace plan allows JavaScript, then paste your Publish code into a Code block.

Publishing to Squarespace

Compare the Narrative WordPress plugin and embed code, and see which post details each one fills in for you.

Publishing to WordPress: plugin or embed code?

Install the Narrative Publisher plugin in WordPress and connect it to Publish with your access key.

Install and connect the Narrative WordPress plugin

Learn what WordPress categories are, and how to choose one for your Publish post when you publish with the WordPress plugin.

What is a WordPress category?

Send a Publish post straight to WordPress with the Narrative Publisher plugin, then preview it and update it from Publish.

Publishing to WordPress with the plugin

Add a Publish post to any page on your website with embed code, even if you usually publish to your blog with the WordPress plugin.

Can I publish my post to a page instead of my blog?

Paste your Publish embed code into a WordPress post or page, in the block editor or Classic Editor.

Publishing to WordPress with embed code

See which Publish options work on your Showit plan: the WordPress plugin, embed code or exported JPGs.

Publishing to Showit

Add a Publish post to your Wix blog by pasting its embed code into an HTML Code block in a new Wix blog post.

Publishing to Wix

Add a Publish post to your Format website with a Custom Embed Code section.

Publishing to Format

Add a Publish post to a WordPress page built with Elementor by pasting its embed code into Elementor's HTML widget.

Publishing to Elementor

Publish a post to your ProPhoto WordPress website with the Narrative plugin, then preview it in WordPress and update it from Publish.

Publishing to WordPress ProPhoto

Add a Publish post to your Pixieset website by pasting its embed code into a Custom Embed Code block, then update it anytime.

Publishing to Pixieset

Add a Publish post to a website we don't have a guide for by pasting its embed code into an HTML or embed block.

Publishing to other websites

Take a Publish post off your website by unpublishing it, and free up space on your plan to publish another post.

How do I unpublish a Publish post?

Publishing to your Website

Learn how Publish hosts copies of your photos, what needs internet, and what happens if you cancel.

How Publish stores, hosts and retains your images

Learn what the source folder is in Publish, how to point a post to a different folder, and what happens to your photos.

Can I change the source folder for my Publish post?

Turn on Import images from subfolders in Publish Preferences to add photos from folders inside your source folder.

Can I include subfolders when adding images to a Publish post?

See what you get with the Publish free trial, including 2 published posts, SEO tools and Pinterest, and how to start your trial.

What's included in the Publish free trial?

Check which macOS version you need to run Publish on your Mac, and when Publish needs an internet connection.

What are the system requirements for Publish?

Change a post's name on the Publish All Posts screen. Renaming doesn't change the SEO title on your website.

Rename a Publish post

Learn the difference between unpublishing and deleting a Publish post, and how to delete one.

Delete or unpublish a Publish post

Export your Publish post as JPGs to upload to your website yourself. Available on yearly Publish plans.

Export Publish posts as JPGs

Check which macOS version Publish needs, and how to update macOS safely.

How do I safely update macOS for Publish?

Find out what size photos to use in Publish, and how Publish resizes them so your post loads fast on every screen.

What size images should I use in Publish?

Publish doesn't support videos, but you can add a video to the same page on your website, above or below your post.

Can I add videos to my Publish post?

Find the access key in your Publish publishing settings and paste it into the Narrative Publisher plugin in WordPress.

Where can I find my access key?

Publish is a Mac-only app. See which macOS version it needs, and how it's different from Narrative, which runs on Mac and Windows.

Is Publish available on Windows?

Keep your published posts live for 10 USD a year with the Publish Parking Plan, and learn how to move to it or leave it.

What is the Publish Parking Plan?

See how many posts each Publish plan lets you have published at once, and how to publish another.

I've reached my Publish post limit

Keep your posts live with the Parking Plan, export them, or cancel. Here's what happens when you cancel Publish.

What happens when I cancel Publish?

Narrative Publish FAQs

Fix photos that look blurred in a Publish post on a WordPress website with a Flothemes theme, by turning off its lazy loading setting.

Why do the photos in my Publish post look blurred on WordPress?

Find out how long a large post can take to build when you publish it from Publish, and what to do if it doesn't finish within an hour.

My Publish post is stuck on Building Blog

Turn off Ajax loading on Squarespace 7.0 if your Publish post only shows one photo or only shows after refreshing.

Fix Ajax loading on Squarespace 7.0 websites

Fix a Publish post that won't show on a website that isn't WordPress or Squarespace, from checking your code to exporting JPGs.

Publish post not loading correctly on other websites

Fix a Publish post that isn't showing on Squarespace: check your plan, the live page, your code and Ajax.

Publish post not loading correctly in Squarespace

Fix a Publish post that isn't showing properly on WordPress, whether you use the plugin or embed code.

Troubleshoot Publish posts on WordPress

Fix the "Narrative cannot find the plug-in on your website" message when you connect the Narrative Publisher plugin to WordPress.

Publish can't find the plugin on my website

Sign out of Publish from the Narrative Publish menu in your Mac's menu bar, and what to do if you can't sign out.

How do I sign out of Publish?

We may be able to restore a deleted Publish post for a short time. Here's what to send us.

Can I restore a deleted Publish post?

Add a grayed-out photo to your Publish post with Add to Post, even when you haven't used that photo in your post yet.

Why is a photo grayed out when I haven't added it to my Publish post?

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