Accessible Story Timeline - WordPress Plugin

Accessible Story Timeline

Accessible Story Timeline is a focused WordPress block for company histories, product roadmaps, release notes, project milestones, event schedules, and personal stories.

Editors can begin with a company journey, product roadmap, or event schedule and then customize every milestone inside the native Gutenberg sidebar. Visitors receive a semantic ordered timeline styled with responsive CSS—without a frontend JavaScript dependency.

Included Features

- Native dynamic Gutenberg block

- Three one-click editable starter timelines

- Complete, current, and upcoming milestone statuses

- Optional custom status badges and introductory copy

- Accessible aria-current markup for the current milestone

- Alternating and left-aligned layouts

- Responsive single-column presentation on narrow screens

- Ordered semantic event markup

- Optional valid machine-readable dates using the HTML time element

- Optional event descriptions and links

- Editor controls for adding, duplicating, removing, reordering, and reversing events

- Bounded output of up to 50 events per block

- Server-side sanitization plus layout and status allowlists

- No public-facing JavaScript

- No cookies, analytics, visitor tracking, remote scripts, or outbound requests

Requirements

- WordPress 6.3 or newer

- PHP 7.4 or newer

- WordPress block editor

Important Limitations

This release provides static vertical timelines. It does not include horizontal sliders, carousels, filters, custom post types, animations, analytics, or third-party page-builder integrations.

Package Contents

- Installable WordPress plugin ZIP

- English HTML documentation

- GPL license text

- Changelog and privacy boundary

No third-party images, fonts, or libraries are included or required.

Features

Native dynamic Gutenberg block

Three one-click editable starter timelines

Complete, current, and upcoming milestone statuses

Optional custom status badges and introductory copy

Accessible current-step markup

Alternating and left-aligned layouts

Responsive single-column mobile presentation

Valid machine-readable dates

Optional descriptions and links

Add, duplicate, remove, reorder, and reverse events

Up to 50 sanitized events per block

No public-facing JavaScript

No cookies, tracking, telemetry, remote assets, or outbound requests

Requirements

WordPress 6.3 or newer

PHP 7.4 or newer

WordPress block editor

Instructions

1. In WordPress, open Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.

2. Upload the included installable plugin ZIP and activate Accessible Story Timeline.

3. Edit a post or page and add the Accessible Story Timeline block.

4. Choose a company journey, product roadmap, or event schedule starter, or add events manually.

5. Customize the heading, introduction, layout, milestone dates, statuses, badges, descriptions, and optional links.

6. Reorder, duplicate, remove, or reverse events as needed.

7. Publish or update the page.