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Storymaps

Description

StoryMapJS by Knight Lab is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Storymaps WordPress plugin turns your WordPress into a StoryMapJS authoring tool. Categorise StoryMap slides and view Slide categories as their own storymap. Easily embed StoryMaps into posts or pages with shortcodes.

Features

  • Create fantastic looking Storymaps within WordPress, quickly and easily.
  • Embed Storymaps within Posts and Pages effortlessly!
  • Storymap Slides, Storymap Slide Categories and Storymaps are easily created and managed.
  • Storymap Slide Categories can be viewed as their own Storymap.
  • Storymap Slide Categories have an optional Overview Slide which can be customised.
  • All the features of StoryMapJS including Gigapixel Storymaps

Screenshots

  • Fullscreen StoryMap page template
  • Add new StoryMap Screen
  • Add new Slide Category Screen
  • Add new StoryMap Slide Screen
  • StoryMaps
  • Storymap Slides

Installation

StoryMaps is extremely easy to install and use.

  1. Upload storymaps to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory & activate
  2. Upload advanced custom fields or advaned custom fields pro to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory & activate
  3. Activate StoryMaps
  4. Create a few ‘Storymap Slides’
  5. Create a Storymap and add Storymap Slides to it, order them if required.
  6. View Storymaps at its page URL or embed it into your post/page with this shortcode: [storymap id="example-unqiue" name="basic-storymap-example"] (id is a unique div id, name is the storymaps ‘slug’). You can also embed a storymap slide-category into a post with the shortcode [storymap_archive slide_category="slide-category-slug"]
  7. View Gigapixel Storymaps at its page URL or embed it into your post/page with this shortcode: [gigapixel_storymap id="example-unqiue" name="basic-storymap-example"] (id is a unique div id, name is the gigapixel storymaps ‘slug’)

Reviews

03 September 2016
Plugin works as intended. At first, I had some trouble with slides, but I reported the issue and it was fixed the same day.
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Contributors & Developers

“Storymaps” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0

Initial Release

1.01

*Fixing posttype filter on storymap slide relationship field

1.02

*Fixing map_type field name