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Publishing & Embedding

Publishing creates a fixed edition of your deck, with its own public address. Anyone with the link can read it without signing in. Editing the source deck afterwards does not change that edition.

  1. Open your presentation.
  2. Click Share in the editor toolbar and open the Public tab.
  3. Click Publish.
  4. Copy Link to share the page, or Embed to put it on another site.

The address is /p/{publicationId}/{version}: a publication UUID followed by an edition number. The corresponding embed address is /embed/{publicationId}/{version}. For a multilingual deck, the language choice adds ?lang= to both links and the iframe snippet.

Publishing checks that slides are complete, meaningful images have alternative text, and the deck’s dependencies can be preserved in the edition. If a check fails, correct the reported issue before publishing. Publishing is unavailable in the sandbox.

After editing the deck, open Share > Public and choose Publish new version. This creates the next edition with a new address. Earlier editions remain public at their original addresses; existing links and embeds keep showing the edition they name. Copy the new link or replace your embed URL when you want to share the update.

An edition preserves its content and renderer independently of the source deck. Deleting the source deck does not withdraw its editions; use Unpublish to take them offline.

Use the Embed link or the iframe snippet under Snippets for your own site. Only the /embed/ address can be framed; the /p/ page cannot.

See Embedding for an example and the separate standalone HTML export option.

For content that should not be public, use the Guests tab instead. Share links can have a password, an expiry date, view or comment permission, and invited guests who verify their email before commenting.

See Sharing & Permissions. For a live audience following the presenter, use Follow Mode.

Each edition has these addresses:

AddressPurpose
/p/{publicationId}/{version}Public presentation
/p/{publicationId}/{version}/readerAccessible reader view
/embed/{publicationId}/{version}Frameable presentation
/p/{publicationId}/{version}/ogSocial preview image
/p/{publicationId}/{version}/manifest.jsonEdition manifest
/p/{publicationId}/{version}/edition.zipVerification package

Old publication and embed links can redirect to the first edition after the instance administrator converts them. They do not follow later editions. An old link that has not been converted returns 404.

  1. Open Share > Public.
  2. Click Unpublish and confirm.

This withdraws all public editions of the deck. Their pages, embeds, reader views, previews and downloads return 410 Gone, as do converted old links pointing to them. Publishing again creates the next version; it does not restore withdrawn editions. Copies that someone has already downloaded or cached elsewhere are outside the instance’s control.

An edition’s social preview uses the first image in its preserved content, or the instance’s default card if it has no suitable image. To share changed content, publish a new version and share its new address.

See OpenGraph Images.

A newly created edition triggers the presentation.published webhook with its edition details. Retrying the same publication request does not send another event. See Webhooks and the publishing API.

When RSS is enabled, the feed lists the newest public edition of each publication. Editing a draft alone does not update the feed. See RSS Feeds.

Use PDF Export for a document, or HTML Export for a presentation that can be hosted separately from your instance.