In reply to Robin.

Hey Robin!
As of Aesop 1.1 it works with all WordPress themes (we've actually had full theme compatibility since 1.0.9). The sprint to 1.1 was a solid 1000 hours of time invested and at this point I feel that we've covered most of the areas of interactivity that one would want to build in a story. In the areas that are lacking, we've been building a few paid add-on components to fill the gap with one being released this week.

Feature requests have slowed down so I'm pretty curious to what you have to say. Please do request new features and feedback here https://github.com/bearded-avenger/aesop-core/issues

The brand new interface introduced along with editable components in ASE 1.1 has put us into a great position to now start putting the pieces together for a hosted solution of Aesop since we feel the plugin has matured close to a point that we comfortable building on.

Which brings us to WP Status Page. It's just one small cog in a huge machine that's being assembled. It's incredibly important for us to reach users when issues arise with Aesop Hosted, and currently there isn't a solution that has what we need. And, as a bootstrapped startup, $600 a year for something that we could build and then give back to the WordPress community for free just felt like a better move.

Anyways, hope this helps to clear up a few things!