Rating: 1 star
Documentation is nonexistent, and the tools themselves do not use the standard WP block interface for configuration. The two or three things that look attractive in the demo, there’s NO indication of how anyone can actually use them. Most of it can be found in other, more standard plugin packages. Maybe someday this plugin will grow up to be useful, but today is not that day.
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Great plugin for storytelling, nice features to create dynamics posts ! I had a compatibility problem with my theme, but it was fixed by the staff. Free plugin, great support, thank you
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Overall, this is a great plugin and has loads of features – all for free!
The Chapters features is my favourite as well as the Parallax. And the stories page feature makes a drab website look wonderful.
Also, the best thing about Aesop is actually the guy who made the plugin, Hyun. One of the Aesop updates caused an issue with my website and I contacted him.
His reply was very fast and professional and solved my problem. I was very impressed to see how concerned he was about the problem and how eager he was to help.
I’d advise those who may be having difficulties with Aesop to contact Hyun so that he can help you out. Don’t be in a rush to remove this great plugin.
Thanks Hyun for your help!
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the new plugin update to version 2.2.1 broke my website with wrong event listener & lightbox for video display anywhere
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Unless you already know how to code everything yourself and put in the hours of experimentation to figure out how it works I can’t really recommend it, or anything else by this author. Support by Hyun was great, until the sale was completed. Post sale I can’t even get a reply to emails. I bought the whole package with the Aesop Fable theme and ASE. There is literally no useful documentation for either, and zero community support. I’m honestly sorry I purchased this and will likely ask for a refund.
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I’m building a “book” site and this plugin is very good. Enables an effective “long-story” style. Support is some of the best I’ve experienced.
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This plugin is great when it works. Thankfully, I didn’t invest money into it, as I wanted to see how the free version would fit my needs. I discovered, unfortunately, to use the plugin on the front end, you have to put money into a year subscription, which is a little disappointing, but nonetheless I was considering doing so because I’ve been searching for a plugin and/or program that would allow my writers to post content in chapter format without having to post to my site on a continual basis for one story.
After having it installed for a week, I attempted to log into my dash only to receive an error message with this plugin’s file name preventing me access.
I’m already pretty skeptical about using certain plugins because my site is community based and I need my members to be able to access and upload their content safely. When I saw this error code, I had to go into my FTP and rename the file so I could log into my admin dashboard. The moment I did, everything returned to normal. I was finally able to deactivate the plugin and I will be deleting it.
So, the idea of the plugin is excellent, but trust was immediately broken when I discovered it was blocking access to my dash. This may have been due to the very recent update it received, but I have my accounts set up where I have to manually approve any updates to my site for reasons like this. It updated on its on, and that’s a red flag for me, as well.
So, hence the one star.
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It helped me a lot for a presentation, it has so many nice options to make multimedia more interactive.
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Many of the features should natively be implemented in WordPress IMO. Everything’s working as it should, fast and easy to use.
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This is a great plugin. It helps styling a post, it works as a pagebuilder with a lot of useful components for media, maps and other useful stuff. The developers are doing a great job .. THANK YOU!
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It would be really nice if there was better documentation instead of just listing the features of the components.
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I’m really shocked at negative revues for a resource that’s free.
Why are Apple iOS apps the biggest selling? Why do most companies either build for Apple first or exclusively. Because theres only one phone! Eventhough android phones are more widely used there all very different.
Expecting a developer to build a plugin that out of the gate works with every theme is a little unreasonable.
Really amazing. I’m not a developer or coder. I’m a Hairstylist, Colorist and Master Barber builds websites for friends. I’ve seen the start of themes and the attempts at themify and others “drag and drop” design. ASE has put something together that has uncomplicated blogging beautifully and simply.
I’m using Meanthemes “Lore”. Everything just works! Thank you. Please dont stop working on this. Its great for even the novices and the dabblers.
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This plugin didn’t even begin to work with my theme. Support is slow, and comes with a bit of attitude.
My issue was putting in columns for something – a portfolio maybe I don’t recall – I set it to show 4 pictures in a row of 4 – so one row of 4 pictures. I got 4 rows of 1 picture with 4 pages more to follow (so 16 images total). Took days to get a response, by then I had already deleted the plugin and gone with a different page layout.
I’d find another way, especially if you don’t have the right theme to go with it – not that there is any indication of which theme that might be.
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The components of Aesop provide everything that a digitl storyteller needs. If there is a problem the support is quick and friendly.
five stars
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Aesop is the perfect tool to tell stories online with. The developers have really made an excellent, user friendly tool.
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I have been recommending it to many of our customers and been experimenting it on a few sites myself, I love the extensibility and how focused it is to fill the one and one need only, storytelling. Huge props!
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For best results, use it in a theme specifically designed to support it. It worked on my site with Genesis but soon switched to Worldview by Upthemes to take advantage of using the full screen width for amazing parallax effects.
There’s a bit of a learning curve to use the plugin but shouldn’t take you more than a couple hours of tinkering around to get the effects you want – and what beautiful effects at that!
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There are still some quirks, but overall an amazing plugin.
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Storytelling is such a major part of our lives and what better than to share stories with others via the Internets. Aesop Story Engine makes telling visually engaging storyies a cinch.
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Please, keep up the good work! Thank you for Aesop.
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I really love this plugin and I’ve had it since its beta version and I just finally got around to using it last night (getting around to writing a review of it for my blog. ?? Though I was using it in Google Chrome and the components I was using working fine. However, when I went to check the posts I did with Opera browser, the document component ‘reader’ window showed only a gray area and a message saying “This plugin is not supported”. I haven’t yet checked the other browsers I use, Firefox and Safari, to see if I would get the same error but will. But so far, Chrome handles the document reader component fine. I thought that the incompatibility may be due to a problem with either Java script or Flash so I updated my Flash player for Opera but still I would get the same error.
The other post I did last night was using the content component and that post looks fine in Opera.
Rating: 5 stars
Aesop is great for anyone looking to create media rich, long-form content within your WordPress site. Break your story down into chapters and sections using simple shortcodes. Good job Nick.
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I really like this plugin, and think it represents some really great work on Nick’s part. What’s more, he has proven to be a very responsive developer. But unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t play nice with some themes. I use Genesis with the Dynamik child theme. Whether it is Genesis or Dynamik, I’m not sure, but after installing the 1.0 version of the plugin, I get the following error whenever I try to edit a post or page:
“There was an error with your request.500”
After Nick tried to solve this during the beta, he concluded it must be an incompatibility with the theme. I still hope he will be able to work with the Dynamik developers to solve this problem, because I think there is enormous potential in Aesop!
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I’ve been using Aesop since it’s beta to craft longer interactive posts. I’m in love!
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