Storytelling Tools

Contributors: innlabs, rclations
Donate link: https://labs.inn.org
Tags:
Requires at least: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.8
Stable tag: 1.1
License: GPLv2
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Description

Allows seamless embedding for the Knight Lab Storytelling Tools

Installation

The Knight Lab at Northwestern University has created 4 storytelling tools to help make information meaningful and promote quality journalism, storytelling and content on the internet.

This plugin seamlessly integrates those tools into WordPress, using the methods listed below:

1. Timeline: Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines. This plugin adds embed support for timelines created at http://timeline.knightlab.com/. Simply paste the URL to the timeline you've created, and WordPress will embed an iframe of the content in it's place.

2. StoryMap: Maps that tell stories. This plugin adds embed support for storymaps created at https://storymap.knightlab.com/. Simply paste the URL to the storymap you've created, and WordPress will embed an iframe of the content in it's place.

3. Juxtapose; Easy-to-make frame comparisons. This plugin adds embed support for image comparisons created at https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/. Simply paste the URL to the item you've created, and WordPress will embed an iframe of the content in it's place.

4. Soundcite: Seamless inline audio. This plugin adds a shortcode that allows you to embed an mp3 file as an inline text within a story. The plugin will automatically include the Soundcite JavaScript file and stylesheet on pages using the shortcode (in order to create the audio player). The shortcode's arguments are url, text, start, and end. url is the URL of a compatible audio file. start and end are optional, but can be used to specify the time in seconds (not milliseconds) when playback should start and stop in the file. You can learn more and see examples of this tool in action at http://soundcite.knightlab.com/

You can learn more information about the Storytelling Tools at https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/

Manual Installation

1. Upload the entire /storytelling-tools directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate Storytelling Tools through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

Screenshots

1. Example of the Juxtapose embed

2. Example of the Timeline embed

Changelog

1.1

• WordPress.com VIP check fixes - better escaping & encoding
• Add "text" parameter to wysiwyg button
• Allow decimals in start & end parameters

1.0.0

• First release

Upgrade Notice

1.1

• WordPress.com VIP check fixes - better escaping & encoding
• Add "text" parameter to wysiwyg button
• Allow decimals in start & end parameters

1.0.0

First Release