Recent ShortStack upgrades

The updated version of our Campaign Server–which we affectionately refer to as “S2”–is now live for all* ShortStack users! This means there are a lot of fun new widget goodies to tinker with in a whole new library of templates. Get a rundown of what these changes mean in our What is S2? help doc.

* All current plan (Business, Agency, and Brand) users. Update not available for legacy plans. Reach out to our Support or Sales team with any questions.

Were you running a feed, and somehow a post got overlooked? It’s okay – it happens to the best of us. Now, you can manually import a post from Twitter or Instagram into your Feed! Just go to your Feed in ShortStack, click the drop-down (the down arrow) to the right of the feed name, click Add Entry, then input the URL of the post you want to import. Keep in mind that for Instagram, the data we get is limited: We won’t be able to tell if it’s a video post, and we can’t request rights within ShortStack from these posts because the data is incompatible with Facebook.

A couple small bits of upkeep: The Code Widget’s height has been explanded, and a Full Screen mode has been added for the Builder! To go into Full Screen mode, hit Shift-FN-F11 on Mac, and Shift-F11 on PC. To get out of Full Screen, just hit Esc. Enjoy all that extra screen real estate!

Importing posts from Instagram or Facebook used to require some pretty hefty access on the Facebook side of things. Great news: You no longer need the “max permissions” (a.k.a. “Admin”) to a Facebook Page in order to import posts from that Page, or an associated Instagram Business Account. You merely need the “Analyst” permission, which is the lowest role a Page can have assigned. Just as a reminder: Roles can be set for your Page via the Page Settings or in Facebook Business Manager.

The Entry Display Widget in the S2 beta now has some new voting restrictions added! You can now restrict votes by number of votes cast (more than one per hour/day is now possible), and also by a specific number of calendar days (instead of just one). Have a blast getting as granular as you’d like with your voting restrictions.

When you want to copy widgets between campaigns in the Campaign Builder, the paste button will be enabled upon opening a new Builder tab after the fact; meaning you don’t have to have both tabs open at the same time anymore! Also, you will not be able to paste incompatible widgets to a campaign (like an Entry Widget to an S1 campaign, Voting Widget to an S2 campaign, etc).