Aesop Story Engine is an open-sourced suite of tools that empowers developers to build feature-rich, interactive, long-form storytelling themes for Wordpress. ASE is the same engine that drives the storytelling experience through our hosted platform.
- Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Upload' area
- Select
aesop-core.zipfrom your computer - Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
- Download
aesop-core.zip - Extract the
aesop-coredirectory to your computer - Upload the
aesop-coredirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
http://developers.aesopstories.com/
At the heart of ASE are the storytelling components. They include:
- Audio
- Video
- Content
- Character
- Galleries
- Chapter Headings
- Image
- Locations
- Parallax
- Quote
- Timeline
- Collections
- Document Viewer
Interactive elements are created while crafting stories, with the Story Component Creator.
- Mobile Optimization - At the moment nothing has been done for mobile. ASE adds body classes for browser type, tablet, and OS so tweaking CSS is simple. Next up, conditional script loading for mobile, as well as retina and image optimization support.
- Parallax Floater - The floater attribute in the Parallax component isn't working right now. I was using Skrollr but did not like the way it affected scrolling on mobile. Since Skrollr was only being used for the floater, the script was removed. Seemed overkill. Next up, a custom and lightweight implementation.
- Locations Component - The locations map can only be used once within a story.