Recent ShortStack upgrades

Now in the Knowledge Quiz and Personality Quiz templates (S2 version), you can add images for the questions as well as your answer options! Just another great way to be able to customize your quizzes to look exactly how you want them.

We’ve added support for uploading PDF files in our Upload field in S2 templates, as well as displaying PDFs in the Entry Display Widget. When you click to view the entry in the Entry Display Widget’s popup, the full PDF will be displayed using whatever PDF viewer you have installed (e.g., Acrobat Reader). PDFs can be viewed in the Entries Manager and will be included in any entry export (along with images and videos) when you choose to export “Uploaded Files.”

In the Form Designer, we’ve added character counter options to Text and TextArea Fields; these apply to custom Text and TextArea fields, as well as Entry Title and Entry Description fields. The counters are only visible when the inputs have focus (when the field has been clicked on) and you can choose to hide the character count using the Style Panel, if you don’t want it.

There is a new Default Time Zone setting that works for all templates – you can find it in the “General” section of your Campaign Settings, in the Builder. There’s also a checkbox allows you to update all widgets to use the campaign default. If all widgets are already updated, the checkbox will still appear, but will be disabled, giving you a visual confirmation that all widgets are using the default.

When configuring a time zone in the visibility section of the widget settings, the first option (and the default for new widgets) in the dropdown is “use campaign default” and we’ll show what that default currently is, for confirmation. In addition to the visibility time zone setting, you can also choose “use campaign default” for the two voting time zone settings in the Entry Display widget.

The Referrer Blacklist (Blocklist) feature has been enabled in all of our S2 templates. It works just like it does in S1 – just add the domains that you’d like to have blocked to the provided field in your Campaign Settings (under the “Other” section). You can take advantage of this feature on the Agency Plan or higher.

Our embed code has been updated to solve a couple issues:

1. You can now embed multiple campaigns on the same web page without conflict. Previously, one instance of our embed code would be loaded for each campaign, which was leading to unexpected behavior. Now, only one instance will be loaded no matter how many campaigns are embedded.

2. Campaigns embedded further down the web page will be “lazy loaded” (in supported browsers), meaning they won’t be requested from our server until your visitor scrolls close to the embedded campaign’s location.