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Snowball

Snowball makes it easy for journalists and bloggers to create immersive articles using multimedia, data visualizations, and interactive widgets.

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Tested up to WordPress 5.2
Current version0.4.20
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 5.2
Minimum stackWP 3.0.1 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update14 Aug 20197y ago
Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 5 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Snowball version 0.4.20 as active, updated 7y ago and tested up to WordPress 5.2.

Overview

About this plugin

Snowball is a powerful plugin that makes it easy for journalists and bloggers to create modern, immersive articles as seen by world-class news organizations.

Snowball’s user-friendly interface allows you to build your article one content block at a time. Snowball support many different types of content including text, images, videos, data visualizations, and interactive widgets.

For each block, set your own content and style choices. Advanced users can customize a block even further using the built-in code editor to inspect and modify its underlying HTML and CSS code.

Snowball is developed and maintained by the openHTML research team at Drexel University, with the goal of broadening participation and empowering people to be more expressive on the web.

Currently supported modules:

  • Basic: Text, Splash, Sidenote, Pullquote, HTML, Columns, Table
  • Media: Image, Image Comparison Slider, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Google Maps
  • Social: Twitter, Vine
  • Data: Bar Graph, Scatterplot, Choropleth
  • Meta: Table of Contents, Contact Form, Share Buttons

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • article
  • blog
  • journalism
  • news
  • snowball
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 5.2

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 5.2.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to5.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0.1 · PHP not listed
Update activity14 Aug 20197y ago

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