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.
- Spanish - via @tmeister
- German - via @kuenstlerich
Here is a very, very basic sample WordPress theme showing implementation of the story engine component design. This demo theme ONLY includes styles for the single story as an example. https://github.com/bearded-avenger/aesop-sample-theme