Title: Interactive Longform Articles
Author: clickonmedia
Published: <strong>April 19, 2019</strong>
Last modified: July 14, 2020

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Interactive Longform Articles

 By [clickonmedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clickonmedia/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/interactive-longform-articles.zip)

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## Description

Interactive longform articles, with a fading scroll effect.

### Examples

https://www.theversed.com/90435/life-preserver-meet-the-navy-airr-who-is-dedicating-
his-life-to-helping-others/

https://www.theversed.com/91272/ascender-one-sailors-journey-reach-new-heights

https://www.theversed.com/88874/wavemaker-the-road-to-recovery

### Usage

 1. Upload the unzipped plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install
    the plugin via WordPress CMS
 2. Activate the plugin in Plugins section in WordPress CMS.
 3. If using WP 5.0+, disable Gutenberg Editor (see instruction below)
 4. Add a new post or page, and select “Interactive article” as the page template
 5. Create an Interactive Article (see instruction below)
 6. Publish article

### How to disable the Gutenberg editor

Interactive Longform Articles doesn’t currently support the Gutenberg Editor. Please
see your options on disabling the editor at: https://kinsta.com/blog/disable-gutenberg-
wordpress-editor

### How to create Interactive Articles

https://github.com/clickonmedia/interactive-longform-articles/wiki/Instructions

### Settings

 * There are a few optional settings you can adjust in Settings > Interactive Longform
   Articles:
    - Enable Interactive Articles as a separate post type
    - Enable the “downloads” section
    - Enable iframe embedding in text editor
    - Add Google Analytics Event tracking
    - Adjust the progress indicator color

### Optional features

### Custom logo

 * A custom logo can be added by enabling Custom Logo for the theme: https://developer.
   wordpress.org/themes/functionality/custom-logo

### Header and footer

 * Default header and footer can be customized by including a header.php or footer.
   php template in a directory named “interactive” inside the theme

### Shortcode

 * A carousel list of interactive articles can be added by using shortcode [interactive-
   list max=”3″]. “Max” parameter indicates the maximum amount of articles listed.
   Requires that featured images are set for all articles.

### Requirements

 * WordPress 3.0 – 4.*
 * WordPress 5.* with Gutenberg disabled

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## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Works great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-6932/)󠁿

 [jpylisela1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jpylisela1/) July 9, 2020

Nice and easy way to create visual, multimedia articles.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/interactive-longform-articles/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Interactive Longform Articles” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ clickonmedia ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clickonmedia/)

[Translate “Interactive Longform Articles” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/interactive-longform-articles)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/interactive-longform-articles/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/interactive-longform-articles/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/interactive-longform-articles/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/interactive-longform-articles/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1.6**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/interactive-longform-articles/)
 * Tags
 * [article](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/article/)[interactive](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/interactive/)
   [journalism](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/journalism/)[longform](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/longform/)
   [multimedia](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multimedia/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/interactive-longform-articles/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ clickonmedia ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clickonmedia/)

## Support

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