Stories

Stories connect the past and present to the future. Our stories and our learning from them honors and respects our ancestors and us. They can awaken future generations to their potential. They model a way to use their stories to release themselves as they connect to their history and to our values. — Rachael Freed

Knowing the importance of stories, how do we leverage Drupal to allow them to best be told? That is something we’ve been trying to solve for a long time. Traditionally, we haven’t had much more than a WYSIWYG field to work with. Stories module utilizes some of the most exciting Drupal modules to give story-tellers, content creators and website managers the tools they need to tell their story.

At its core, Stories module leverages Paragraphs module for a component-based approach for content creation. Stories provides some predefined Paragraph Types:

• Rich Text
• Quote
• Curated Content
• Link List
• Table
• Call to Action
• Blocks (Drupal Blocks Integration)
• Views Content Lists (Drupal Views Integration)

Stories also has a submodule called Stories Media that has deep integration with Media Entity that will ship with Drupal 8.4. It uses Entity Browser, DropzoneJS and Inline Entity Form to streamline creation of and reuse of media elements. Stories Media provides configuration for the following media types:

• Web Video
• Image
• Slideshow

Roadmap

• Include Predefined Paragraph Types (Fall 2017)
• Include Predefined Media Types & Corresponding Paragraph Types (Fall 2017)
• Default CSS for Paragraph Type components (Fall 2017/Winter 2018)
• Better integration with Media in Drupal 8.4 & 8.5 (Fall 2017/Winter 2018)
• Layouts - ability for dynamic creation of layouts (Spring 2018)