Recent ShortStack upgrades

We’ve now added clicks from links added to Rich Text Widgets to our ShortStack Analytics. The Tracking Widget has also been updated for Google Analytics to track all the same events that we log in ShortStack’s Analytics; including the ability to customize the values for Category, Action, and Label – this includes support for variable substitution. More information can be found in the Events section of our Tracking Widget help doc.

The widget settings pop-ups for all of our S2 widgets have been updated! They all now contain a link to that specific widget’s help doc in the upper right corner (look for the ?) – click there to be whisked away to our handy documentation.

The Instagram Comment Importer has been updated to support importing comments from ads. This will work for any promoted/boosted Instagram post, or any Instagram Ad created in Facebook’s Ads Manager. Comments from imported ads will report slightly different; they won’t have the username included, but instead a general ID name like, “instagram_user_12345” (this is due to a Facebook limitation). However, each IG entry post URL will link directly to the comment, so those generic usernames will be easy to identify simply by clicking the link.

If a post in Instagram is promoted or boosted, a copy is made of the post; this becomes the “ad” version of the post. Any comment posted on the “ad” version will only be found when importing the comments from the ad – not the regular post on the timeline. For any questions on this update, just reach out to our support team!

S2 campaigns will now log clicks from Navbar, Button, and Image Widgets (if the image is linked or has hotspots) to ShortStack’s analytics for that campaign – just like S1 campaigns do. It’s magic!

The Simulated Times dropdown in the Builder’s Preview Mode has been enhanced to include the start and end times for Instant Win! Each listed time in the dropdown also includes a description of where the time came from (widget start, instant win start, etc.) and a tooltip with icons that indicate if the time is for Instant Win (a gift icon), a start time (eye icon) or an end time (eye with slash icon). With these in place, you no longer have to change the dates in the Instant Win feature itself to test it out – just use the simulated times in the Preview Mode instead.

You can now modify the colors and font sizes for elements in the pop-up used for email address restrictions in the Entry Display Widget! You can find the new settings in the Global tab of the Style Panel, under the Pop-ups with Forms section. To update an existing campaign, simply update the Theme when prompted (in the Style Panel), make your changes in the Style Panel after the Theme has updated, save your changes in the Style Panel, then click Publish Changes in the Builder.