Storymaps

October 02, 2015

Storymaps Plugin

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.

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

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’)

Screenshots

  1. Fullscreen StoryMap page template

    Fullscreen StoryMap page template

  2. Add new StoryMap Screen

    Add new StoryMap Screen

  3. Add new Slide Category Screen

    Add new Slide Category Screen

  4. Add new StoryMap Slide Screen

    Add new StoryMap Slide Screen

  5. StoryMaps

    StoryMaps

  6. Storymap Slides

    Storymap Slides

Changelog

1.0

Initial Release

1.01

*Fixing posttype filter on storymap slide relationship field

1.02

*Fixing map_type field name

Details

  • Version: 1.02
  • Active installations: 60
  • WordPress Version: 3.0.1
  • Tested up to: 4.3.34

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