Storymaps

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

StoryMaps is extremely easy to install and use.

1. 01Upload storymaps to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory & activate
2. 02Upload advanced custom fields or advaned custom fields pro to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory & activate
3. 03Activate StoryMaps
4. 04Create a few ‘Storymap Slides’
5. 05Create a Storymap and add Storymap Slides to it, order them if required.
6. 06View 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"]