Tag: aesop storytelling engine

  • Remembering The Moore, OK, EF5 Tornado Using The AESOP Story Engine WordPress Plugin

    Remembering The Moore, OK, EF5 Tornado Using The AESOP Story Engine WordPress Plugin

    Today marks the one year anniversary of the devastating EF5 tornado that ripped through Moore, OK. The twister killed 24 people, seven of which were students when they took cover in The Plaza Towers elementary school. The Norman Transcript, a news publication that serves the Moore, OK, area has published a special website to remember…

  • Aesop Story Engine Launches Commercial WordPress Themes

    Aesop Story Engine Launches Commercial WordPress Themes

    Shortly after New Year’s, Nick Haskins caught the eye of WordPress publishers with his open source story telling plugin. The prospect of building feature-rich, interactive stories within WordPress, without having to touch any code, was so promising that the project’s Crowdhoster campaign was fully-funded by the end of January. The buzz around the Aesop plugin…

  • Aesop Story Engine Now Available On WordPress.org

    Aesop Story Engine Now Available On WordPress.org

    The Aesop Storytelling Engine was created to empower the art of digital storytelling by making it easy for WordPress publishers to create interactive, feature-rich posts. Before Aesop came on the scene, these types of long-form storytelling posts often required quite a bit of code and were not easy for your average user to create. The…

  • Aesop WordPress Storytelling Plugin Is Now Fully Funded

    Aesop WordPress Storytelling Plugin Is Now Fully Funded

    Aesop plugin developer Nick Haskins announced tonight that the project has now been fully funded through its Crowdhoster campaign. He’s raised $6,397 of $6,000, thanks to backing from many major WordPress companies and individuals who are hoping to make the Aesop storytelling engine a reality. Haskin’s open source storytelling plugin allows publishers to create rich…

  • Aesop Storytelling Engine Launches Crowdfunding Campaign

    Aesop Storytelling Engine Launches Crowdfunding Campaign

    Last week Nick Haskins introduced his open source storytelling plugin for WordPress. The proof of concept allows publishers to create big, visual posts with multimedia storytelling tools built right into the WordPress post editor. The New York Times showcased this trend in its feature 2013: The Year in Interactive Storytelling. The trouble is, before Aesop…