Story|ftw extends the publishing power of your WordPress theme. Allows you to easily tell full screen — no header, footer, or menu — stories with a rich range of content and style elements.
Publish on WordPress? Have mobile traffic that continues to rise? Are you fighting to keep your readers focused on your stories?
Us too.
Originally the plugin was created to better capture and convert the ever rising mobile traffic from paid Facebook ads. During the course of development it has grown in range and scope and bells and whistles.
We are eager to see what folks might use it for.
We plan to update the plugin often.
Features
- Uses regular WordPress editing features
- Completely eliminates your header and footer and menu.
- Full screen image backgrounds
- Full screen gif backgrounds
- Full screen video backgrounds (fallback to jpeg or gif on mobile devices)
- Easily add call to action buttons via shortcodes
- Easily embed youtube or vimeo via shortcodes
- Drag and drop page re-ordering
- Add social sharing via shortcodes on any story page
- Easily caption photos and give love to the photographers and artists
- Complete granular control over all colors – stay on brand
- Story re-direct feature. After your story is complete re-direct to any url
- Easy to add a Table of Contents as well as logo to any story
- Check it out on your tablet or phone – thumb swiping tablet/mobile optimized navigation
So What Can It Do? Some Early Implementations…
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IT CAN SELL Tell a story and dump your users onto the product page with the re-direct feature.
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IT CAN COOK A native app like experience for the tablet or phone in the kitchen while cooking.
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IT CAN SELL REAL ESTATE Give a better home preview than redfin or zillo. Let Realtors introduce themselves via video.
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IT CAN DO LIST POSTS Keep the reader focused! Love this guy’s writing.
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IT CAN DO QUOTES Everybody loves quotes.
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IT CAN DO ART Is it 2018 yet?
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IT CAN TELL STORIES I want to meet this kid.
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IT CAN DO PRESENTATIONS Justin’s presentation from WordCamp Raleigh.
So What Would You Like It To Do
You tell us. Submit a Feature Request.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.