You can now attach a PDF directly to any story — no more parking files on a third-party host or burying download links in body text. Perfect for menus, lookbooks, zines, resumes…
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Change Log
New Exposure features, improvements, and fixes.
129 updates
2026
Attach PDFs Inside Your Stories Updated Story Notification Subject Lines From today, those storytellers with the Exposure branding disabled will have improved subject lines for their story notification emails. Previously, we included your account's…
Read moreAI Video Cover Captions & WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Updates We've been working hard on accessibility this month. Here's what's new.
Read moreFooter Logo Options and Grids Now Support up to 12 Items Footer Logo You can now upload a separate logo for the footer of your site. Head to Settings → Design Options to add one. Available on Pro Plus and Business plans. This will place…
Read more1,500 Font Families with Google Fonts Your site's typography just got a major upgrade. You can now choose from the entire Google Fonts library, over 1,500 font families, or both your headings and body text, right from…
Read moreYour Stories Now Get Found Faster When you publish a story, Exposure now automatically notifies Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Naver, and Amazon that your new content exists. Instead of waiting days for…
Read moreMulti-embed layouts for Youtube, Instagram and more Your stories just got a lot more versatile. We've rebuilt our embed system from the ground up and added support for multi-embed layouts — place up to 3 embeds side by side in a…
Read moreEnhanced Code Editor for Developer Options We've upgraded the custom code editing experience with a new code editor featuring syntax highlighting, line numbers, and better error detection. Writing custom CSS and JavaScript…
Read moreEmbed Bug Fixes & Editor Polish If you embed your Exposure stories on other websites, you'll notice things work much smoother now. We've fixed a bunch of issues with how the lightbox opens.
Read moreChoose the Focus Area for Your Cover Photo. Get precise control over your cover photo with the new draggable focus point . Instead of choosing from preset positions, you can now click and drag to set exactly which part of…
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Video Play Tracking is Here 🎬 Now you can see exactly which videos your readers watch—and how much of them they actually finish. View these stats in your Story Stats Panel or the dedicated Stats page page.
Read moreDrag & Drop Categories + Set Category Covers has landed Your Story Categories just got a whole lot easier and faster to manage . Just Drag and Drop. You can now reorder your categories with simple drag and drop. Just grab any category…
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Accessibility Improvements Across Your Site We recently completed a comprehensive accessibility audit of the Exposure platform, and we've been busy implementing the results. Our goal is to make Exposure the most accessible…
Read moreYour Stats Just Got a Major Upgrade We've been working on this one for a while, and we're excited to finally share it with you. Your stats page has been completely rebuilt from the ground up—faster, more insightful…
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More Formatting Options for Your Stories More formatting options for your stories! Text sizes, fonts, colors, inline images, button-style links and footnote formatting,
Read moreFull Story Export with Photos Great news, storytellers! You can now back up your entire Exposure portfolio—stories and photos—with our new Full Export feature. What's new: Back in April, we launched Writing…
Read moreAuto-Import Captions from Your Photos Good news for photographers who caption their work in Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, or other editing software—Exposure now automatically imports those captions when you upload.
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2025
Rotate Issues, Be Gone A small but important update is now live. Some storytellers had experienced photos being rotated the wrong way on upload. This typically affected photos that were film scans or…
Read moreYour Site Search is now Way Better With our new and improved site search, you can now search more of your stories' contents, allowing you to find specific words or phrases within your stories, including photo…
Read moreExporting your Writing Hello storytellers! You can now backup and archive the writing from all your stories with our handy new export tool. Head to your account settings and find the new button to start…
Read moreIntroducing your new Asset Library We understand the value of having easy access to the original files you upload to your stories. That's why we have created the Asset Library, a one-stop-shop for all your assets…
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Add Additional Author Attribution Story telling is often a collaborative endeavor so we've added a quick and easy way to add extra author attribution to your stories.
Read moreIntroducing: Story Map We are excited to announce a new feature that will take your storytelling to the next level - Story Map! With this new feature, you can now see your stories in a fully interactive…
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2024
Preview your stories on mobile We understand the importance of making sure your stories look great on all devices, and with this new improvement to the Story Editor, you can easily preview how your stories will…
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Drag and drop reordering for the Menu Builder We understand that organizing your menu items is a crucial aspect of making your Exposure site your own.
Read moreTwitter is now 𝕏, so we updated the icon We have replaced the Twitter icon on all Exposure sites with the new 𝕏 symbol.
Read moreLink within a story That's right, you can now easily link to specific sections within your story using # based links. This means that readers can now navigate directly to the section they are…
Read moreRouge Caption Characters No longer will you have to worry about your captions rendering silly things like "&". Our team has worked diligently to eliminate these rogue characters and provide a seamless…
Read moreLightbox Speed Improvements Opening the lightbox to view your photos will now be faster than ever. This means you can spend less time waiting and more time perfecting your story. We have worked hard to…
Read moreIntroducing: Table of contents We are excited to announce a new feature that will make navigating through your content even easier - the Table of Contents! We understand that as content creators, organizing and…
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2023
Google Analytics (GA4) Support Exposure now supports the Google Analytics 4 natively.
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2021
Easily See All Your Drafts in One Place There is now a dedicated page where you can see all your drafts, as well as an intuitive button to navigate to it.
Read moreAutomatically Resized Story Embeds Exposure stories come in all shapes and sizes and embedding them just got even easier. Please welcome the new "Automatic Resize" option!
Read moreGroup Contents Indicator Knowing which parts of your story you are removing or changing is now much clearer thanks to the new Group Contents Indicator .
Read moreManage Multiple Exposure Accounts You can now sign into multiple Exposure accounts at once via our brand new Manage Accounts feature. This will allow you to sign into and quickly switch between your Exposure…
Read moreHide a Story From Your Story Feed You can now hide a specific story from your Story Feed while still making it visible within any category it's placed in.
Read moreSet a Custom Link Share Image By default, the link share image that is pulled by Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks will be the cover photo of your story.
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2020
Add In-Story Shop Buttons Today we are introducing the In-Story "Shop" button to empower our members to earn with their storytelling.
Read moreUse a Story as a Landing Page Exposure stories can make great landing pages for events, announcements, or anything that needs a simple, beautiful story to get the point across.
Read moreNew Tab for FireFox Our popular Exposure New Tab extension is now available for Mozilla Firefox. Get a beautiful curated photo from the community Exposure every time you open a new tab and discover…
Read moreSearch your Stories We are pleased to welcome a dedicated search option for your Exposure stories. You can now quickly and easily find the story you are looking for, or let visitors search for and…
Read moreInformation Box Call-out Style You can now style a Text Only group to be an Information Box Call-Out. This is handy when a part of your story might need to be clarified or you need to add a more defined call to…
Read moreDiscover a World of Storytelling with Publications We are excited to announce the launch of Exposure Publications. Hand-curated collections that showcase the best Exposure has to offer from our community of storytellers. From the…
Read moreImproved payment card management and billing history Updating your payment card details is now easier than ever with our improving billing dashboard. Manage multiple cards, set a primary payment method, and remove old ones in just a…
Read moreAdd Disqus Comments to your Stories We have redesigned the Exposure Disqus.com integration to make it even easier to add comments to your stories. A new settings section and story toggle are now available to manage…
Read moreAdd Audio to Your Stories Bring the sounds of your story to Exposure with the new Audio uploads.
Read moreAdd Videos to Your Stories Storytelling takes many forms, and video is a great medium to empower any narrative. We are excited to add direct video uploads so a Youtube or Vimeo embed is no longer required…
Read moreMonetize your Stories with Coil.com Thankfully that worked and now, thanks to our amazing customers we can start to explore the next part of the journey: Getting our members paid for their amazing stories.
Read moreSet a Story as your About Page You can now set any published story as your About Page, this will help tell visitors who you are and what you care about. An About Page is helpful if you use Exposure as your main…
Read moreChange the Label of the Feedback (Enjoy) Button The feedback button (or "Enjoy" button) is designed to give readers a quick way to interact with a story. It appears in the cover and footer of a published piece.
Read moreEasily Add Alt Text Descriptions to Story Photos In an effort to always improve the accessibility of Exposure stories, you can now add an explicit Alt text description to any photo. Previously the Alt text was populated by the…
Read moreBlack lives matter. This moment is a critical one for confronting the racism, inequity, violence, and injustice that has oppressed so many for so long. Acknowledging that we still have much to learn…
Read moreNew Group Type: Quotes A quote can highlight the big ideas and themes of a story. With the Quote group, you can add a big bold typography driven quote and optionally cite who to attribute it to. The…
Read moreIntroducing the Advanced Accessibility Widget Your Exposure site and stories already meet Section 508 and WCAG compliance and with our new Advanced Accessibility widget, you can go even further. The widget is part of the…
Read moreEasily Change the Base Font Size of your Stories In a new addition to your story options, you can now change the base font size of the entire story in just a couple of clicks. Choose between Normal, Medium, and Large font sizes…
Read moreLink to a Specific Section of a Story Sometimes your stories are big, epic, and even quite long.
Read moreImproved Un-publishing Button The "Un-publish Story" button has now been moved to right of the "Save Changes" button to avoid any miss-clicks when trying to save.
Read moreNon-profit Discounts Increased up to 50% Off Exposure has the privilege of being part of some of the worlds biggest non-profit storytelling efforts.
Read morePayment Relief for Those Impacted by COVID-19 Hello storytellers. Luke here, CEO and founder of Exposure.
Read moreDrop Caps for Your Stories You can now style your writing with an impactful Drop Cap. A Drop Cap (or dropped capital) is a large capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph. Bring an editorial feel to…
Read moreDrag and Drop Story Reordering Your stories can now be reordered by simply dragging and dropping them around your Exposure site. No more changing publish dates to get the order you want. Just drag the new move…
Read moreLooping Video Covers have Landed We are very excited to launch our first video feature, beautiful looping story covers are now available for Pro Plus and above subscribers.
Read moreSection 508 and WCAG compliance improvements We have improved our consistent tests for accessibility across Exposure sites and stories, including many checks for compliance issues found in the Section 508 and WCAG 2.1…
Read moreBottom Alignment for Single Photo Groups and Mobile Parallax effect You can now align Single Photo groups writing to the bottom of the photo with one click. Look for the alignment controls in the top right of your groups and click "Bottom". This…
Read moreFixed Two Fold Story Layout The beloved Two Fold Story Layout now has a new super power, a Fixed option is now available for all members. This will fix your cover photo or video of your story to the left and…
Read moreCover Design Options Refresh Your story cover now has a refreshed set of options so you can get the perfect look. These options change depending on what story layout you are using.
Read moreSticky and Vertical Alignment Options for Single Photo Groups Left and right aligned photos are a great option for your storytelling but sometimes your writing is much longer than the photo to accompany it.
Read moreA New Wide Options for Single Photo Groups On the back of our improvements to left and right aligned photos the centered layout for Single Photo groups now has a "Wide" display option. This will make your photo the same…
Read moreHide all Publish Dates Previously you could hide publish dates from your stories individually. You can now set a site and stories wide preference to hide all your publish dates at once. It just takes…
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2019
Theme Your Buttons Make your buttons your own with our new Button Theme designer. A super simple way to pick your button shape, background and label color to fit your brand in just a few seconds.
Read moreAdd Buttons Anywhere in Your Story Buttons can help call your readers to action for things like learning more, purchasing a product or even donating to a cause. With this update you have the new ability to add…
Read moreAdd a Site Wide Call to Action Button With the new Site Call To Action feature you can add a clear and present button in all the right places across your Exposure site and stories to prompt readers to visit a URL of…
Read moreBot Check for New Mailing List Subscribers We are always working to make Exposure a safe and spam free home for you to focus on your storytelling. Today we are rolling a reCAPTCHA (powered by Google) step to prevent bots…
Read moreEmbed Instagram Posts With Just a URL Embedding an Instagram video or photo with just the URL is now fixed. No need to grab the entire embed code from the Instagram page and use the Custom Code view.
Read moreLocalized Publish Dates Publish times are now automatically localized to the timezone you are in. This will prevent any publish dates being a day behind for our more globe trotting members
Read moreIntroducing Broadcast Today we are pleased to launch our newest Exposure site layout. It's called Broadcast and it's available for our Business subscribers right now . Head to your Site Preferences to…
Read moreReordering is Now Easier Now you can reorder photos by simply dragging and dropping—no more clumsy reorder window needed. Just hover over any photo, click and hold the move icon (next to the red remove…
Read moreToggle the Photo Lightbox in Your Stories To add even more creative control we have launched a toggle to disable the photo Lightbox in your stories. We heard your feedback that in some cases the Lightbox can take a reader…
Read moreDark Mode for Your Exposure Site Starting today your Exposure site can now support Dark Mode! This new display option can bring more contrast to the stories that might benefit from a darker environment.
Read moreChange Your Story URL Before Publishing Previously the Exposure story editor would auto-generate a URL(or slug) based on the title of your story. For example, if a title was "Best coffee shops in Atlanta" the URL would…
Read moreFacebook Pixel Integration Exposure For Business subscribers can now easily place a Facebook Pixel into their site and stories with no need for any code. Grab the Pixel ID from the Facebook Events Manager…
Read moreFading Scroll Effects for Stories Smooth scrolling effects for story photos is now live and looking beautiful. As your visitors scrolls a story each photo will gracefully fade in. This is an automatic update and…
Read moreStability and Speed Improvements The stability and speed of Exposure is an ongoing mission for the team, it's one of our top priorities to get your stories loading fast and always available.
Read moreControl the Featuring of Your Content The Exposure team loves to show off your great work by featuring your stories and photos, but we respect your privacy and understand you might not always want that. We've added a…
Read moreToggle Email Notifications Sending Right from Your Stories The story editor just got better! You can now disable your Subscriber Email notifications from sending when you publish any story. There's no need to turn off all Subscriber Email…
Read moreTwo Columns Layout for your Text The two column story layout has arrived! In classic Exposure style, it only takes one click to organize your story text into two columns instead of one.
Read moreChange Your Cover Photo Position Your cover photo is awesome, but we want to give you more options! Check out the latest update to the story editor: position controls to help get your cover photo looking perfect.
Read moreIntroducing the new Simple Cover Layout Simple Cover Layout is here! As much as we love big, full-width photos, we listened to feedback and made a more traditional, blog-like cover layout! Try it out by starting any…
Read moreOpen Menu Builder Links in the Same Tab The Exposure Menu Builder can now open menu item links in the same tab! Previously, these links always opened in a new tab. Now, you can decide!
Read moreBig Improvements to Click Through Links and Photo Controls We heard your feedback and adding a Click-Through Link to your photos is now easier and better than ever!
Read moreCustomers Affected by the US Government Shutdown If you are affected by the current US government shutdown and need help managing your Exposure payments, please let us know anytime at support@exposure.co , we are happy to help…
Read moreChoose Your Contact and Subscribe Page Landing Cover Image You can now use your site share image as the cover for your Contact and Story Subscribe landing pages.
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2018
Brand Logos Are Now Included in Story Notification Emails A quick improvement for our Business customers with a logo uploaded, that logo will now appear in your story notification emails for maximum brand awareness. Nothing to enable…
Read moreMore Control Over Text Alignment Right off the back of our advanced text size update comes the ability to have more control over your text alignment.
Read moreEasily Change the Size of Your Story Text A much welcomed enhancement to rich text editing is now live. You can now choose from Huge, Large or Small size text within your story as well as style those new sizes with bold…
Read moreMore Stories Are Now Newest to Oldest The "More Stories" section at the bottom of a story now display newest to oldest and not random. Now your visitors get all the latest and greatest.
Read moreRedesigned Story Options Are Here! A long overdue redesign of the Story Options panel is now live and available to all members! The new design brings consistency to the style and experience while also improving the…
Read moreOverlay Your Photos With Your Story We are very excited to share an update to our full width photo group in the Exposure Story Editor. You can now overlay your group title and story over a photo with a sweet…
Read moreCaption Your Photo Sets Starting today you can now add a simple caption for entire photo sets in your stories. No more having to caption each photo individually, simply add your caption underneath, easy!
Read moreEnable Your Contact Form 📬 With this update comes an incredibly simple and elegant way to enable a contact form and set an address for visitors to get in touch.
Read moreIntroducing Menu Builder We are pleased to introduce Menu Builder to our growing list of features. A fast and easy way to integrate a beautiful fully branded and responsive menu into your Exposure site…
Read moreWe Have Updated our Privacy Policy We care deeply about you and the visitors privacy when using Exposure. You have probably seen a lot of GDPR related news and the new laws now applicable to websites like ours. We…
Read moreUse Your own Privacy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Service and Story Subscriber terms We know brands and business need to comply with privacy regulation and be consistent across all web sites. Exposure now offers a way to use your own Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy…
Read moreCustomize Internal Usage Tracking To improve your Exposure experience and help with support, we privately track the events you perform while signed in (for example, “Started new Story at 4:13PM on 10/10/18” ).
Read moreCustomize Anonymous Visitors Analytics Exposure anonymously collects information on visitors to your site and stories to build insight about how the platform as a whole is doing and help us improve the service, much…
Read moreEmbed your Exposure Story Feed Your feed of stories can now go with you to your website, blog or anywhere that accepts HTML and Javascript with our new Story Feed Embed script.
Read moreStory Subscriber Design and Control Updates The Exposure Story Subscriber system has picked up some great visual and control improvements this week. Your Story Subscriber landing page is now much cleaner and includes a…
Read moreNew typography themes Exposure has long been big and bold on typography front but after feedback from the community we are introducing 2 two new type themes to better fit the kind of stories being told…
Read moreIntroducing Zine A brand new layout for your Exposure site has arrived to compliment the recent release of Mag . Zine gives your stories an editorial feel with it's 3 column layout and tall aspect…
Read moreIntroducing Two Fold, a Brand New Cover Layout For Your Stories Today we are happy to launch the first of many brand new cover layouts for Exposure stories called Two Fold. Two Fold is a split layout with a minimal, editorial feel and no dark…
Read moreCalling all Pinterest Users You can now add a link to your Pinterest page from your account settings. This link will appear next to your other social links in the header of your site. As an added bonus…
Read moreMaximum Enjoyment We have heard from fans and members alike that when a story is extra compelling they wish they could enjoy it more than just once.
Read moreEasier Drag and Drop for Your Photos Love building your story by dragging and dropping your photos into place? Us too and that's why we have just rolled out a much improved experience to make it easier and clearer…
Read moreStory options now available for tablet devices You can now use all your favorite story options on your tablet device such as an iPad. No more jumping on a desktop to set password or change publish dates!
Read moreIntroducing Mag A brand new site layout is now available for Pro and above subscribers. Mag is a simple and clean way to showcase your stories with Exposure thanks to a much more minimal…
Read moreParallax scrolling in Firefox Firefox browsers saw parallax scrolling temporarily disabled for a short while this week. That has now been fixed up and is reenabled.
Read moreA quicker way to manage your categories You can now manage your categories via the fixed navigation within your story while in edit mode. The existing button within the story cover is still available but with this extra…
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2017
Mobile publishing has arrived 📲 Now you can tell your stories anywhere, just using your mobile browser! Create, edit, upload, write and publish from any iOS or Android phone or tablet. No need to install an app…
Read moreHide published stories from your site 🚫 Published stories can now be hidden from your main Exposure site but still be accessed via the direct URL. You can toggle this new feature via the "options" menu under "Hide Story…
Read moreRemoving a group 🚮 Removing a group from your story has been moved to the top right of the group actions rather than inline within the group media.
Read moreCover photo peek 👁 A small but fun addition to the story editor is the ability to toggle the overlay to see the cover photo without it being darkened.
Read moreSwiping between photos is now live 📱👆 Visitors using touch enabled devices can now swipe forward and back to browse your photos in the lightbox of your stories.
Read moreFull width embeds Full width embeds are here! Now available to all members is the ability to extend your embeds (including video!) edge to edge. ⬅️📼➡️
Read moreExposure stories are now Section 508 compliant for visitors Exposure sites, stories and galleries are now Section 508 compliant for your visitors. We know accessibility is important to our community of story tellers and while we still have…
Read moreCaptions will now appear under single photo groups Instead of hovering photos to see your captions in single photo groups (and full width groups), captions will now appear underneath the photo and visible at all times. This…
Read moreEnable parallax scrolling for your full width photos A much requested feature has arrived for the story editor. Parallax scrolling effects can now be enabled for full width photos. With a simple click of the group options, a full…
Read moreA fresh look for the Enjoy button Enjoying an Exposure post just got a fresh new look. We have redesigned the Enjoy button to be more clear and a little more fun (watch out for the heart!). The new button now…
Read moreMore layouts, faster & easier. A much improved story editor is here! Left, right and center align a single photo within your story and insert new content anywhere in the story without having to scroll the bottom each time (sorry scroll fingers). We…
Read moreUpdating your story URL will no longer cause broken links Changing a post URL after you publish will no longer create a broken link when linking back to your post, or the links in your subscriber notification emails. Exposure will keep…
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