{"id":69621,"date":"2015-10-05T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-on-the-story-maps-website-october-2015\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T08:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:36:50","slug":"whats-new-on-the-story-maps-website-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/constituent-engagement\/constituent-engagement\/whats-new-on-the-story-maps-website-october-2015","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New on the Story Maps Website (October 2015)"},"author":5441,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37131],"tags":[26661],"industry":[],"product":[36551,36611],"class_list":["post-69621","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constituent-engagement","tag-my-stories","product-arcgis-online","product-story-maps"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Esri Story Maps website has been updated to make it faster and easier for you to start making story maps!\r\n\r\nCreating stories is now ea...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: This blog covers the classic Esri Story Maps. Story authors are encouraged to use the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-storymaps\/overview\">ArcGIS StoryMaps<\/a> to create stories; however, Esri will continue to maintain the classic templates for your use. For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-storymaps\/product-road-map\">Product road map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SocialMedia_Misc_StoryMaps3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-52694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SocialMedia_Misc_StoryMaps3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"Esri Story Maps\" href=\"http:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esri Story Maps website<\/a> has been updated to make it faster and easier for you to start making story maps!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating stories is now easier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new <strong>Create Story wizard<\/strong> that lets you pick one of the hosted Story Map apps and start building. 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