Recent ShortStack upgrades

When a search engine bot/spider attempts to crawl a live campaign, ShortStack normally only includes Open Graph Meta Tags in the output sent to that bot. Until now, there was no way to send custom content to the bots. Now, Code Widgets have a new setting called “Show content to bots only” in the Placement section of the widget settings. This setting only appears for Code Widgets that are NOT inside of any other containers. When this setting is enabled, the Code Widget will only be included in the HTML sent to the bots – it won’t be included in the live campaign when viewed by our human eyeballs. This setting will come in especially handy for including custom meta tags, such as those required by Facebook Ads for custom domain verification.

Any entries copied to a new list will now include all custom field data, including images – as long as you’re filtered to a single list when making the copies! This is a huge upgrade from before, where only standard fields could be copied over. Entries copied in this way will only display properly in S2 campaigns. The copied entries will have a vote count of zero, even if the original entries had votes – this can be turned off, if desired.

An under-the-hood update to note – we will now only keep the last two years of Analytics data for all ShortStack users. A fun behind-the-scenes fact: This decision was made to keep our database size from growing too large, as (by far) Analytics data takes up more room on our servers than any other data we store! We have added a handy little reminder note to the Analytics dialogue that will appear when you choose custom dates to display.

A minor update: An entry’s referral URL is now available as a field to use when setting up mapping for webhook integrations. This will pull – you guessed it – the entry’s referral URL into your third-party app of choice when the integration grabs the entry data.

There are now more options available when setting up Instant Win! These new settings allow you to restrict repeat winners, so the same person or people are not eating up all of your available prizes. You can restrict winners (using their email address) for every X number of seconds, minutes, hours, or calendar days.

“Days” will no longer be an option when setting up voting restrictions in campaigns. S2 campaigns will still have the “Calendar Days” option, and existing campaigns with the “Days” option set up for restriction will still work just fine – using the option in new S1 campaigns moving forward will not be available. Anything set up as “Days” will be converted to “Hours” (for example, 1 day = 24 hours).