Kit Release Notes

Partner with creators to drive subscriber growth by adding a Recommendation block directly into your newsletter and recommend them to your subscribers. This will expand the ways you can cross-promote your newsletter with other creators with recommendations in the Creator Network.

Here's what to expect:

• The new Recommendation block is available in any Broadcast and Sequence email.
• All Recommendations in emails are one-click subscribes, making it a frictionless way for your readers to opt-in.
• Any subscribers you drive to creators you're recommending in emails will be reported in the Creator Network dashboard.
• You have direct control on who is recommended in the Recommendation block—it won't be randomized.
• This will only be available for free recommendations at this time.

For more information about how this works, check out our Knowledge Base article.

It's vital that you know what your content looks like before it is sent to your subscribers—that's why we've just made improvements to how you can preview your content in Broadcasts and in Sequences. Here are the updates you'll see:

• Mobile preview: You can now preview your email content in mobile view. You'll see how responsive your email template is and how your content stacks when viewed on a mobile device.
• UI update: To make it more accessible, we've moved the preview button to the text toolbar.

This update will help make sure any content you send out to your subscribers are visually on brand.

We are also bringing our new and improved functionality to the RSS editor! Whether you're sending one-off broadcast emails, an email sequence, or setting up an RSS, you'll have the same customization abilities. Here are the updates:

• Starting Point templates: Starting Point templates are now available for your RSS feed! When you go to select your template, all of your template options should now be available.
• Liquid tag library: When editing your RSS feed, there will be a library of liquid tags you can add to make your email more dynamic.

Use the RSS feed to automatically email your list when you publish a new article on your blog.

We've made big improvements to the ConvertKit plugin on WordPress! All these updates have been made to make it easier for you to set up your website and have your go-to tools complement each other to make your business to run more smoothly.

Here are the updates to look out for:

• Gated content: Using WordPress' Member Content functionality, you can set up gated content for premium members who have purchased a ConvertKit Commerce product. This way you can set up courses, e-books, curated content, and more without another platform, and without your members leaving your site.

• Newsletter feed: Want to showcase all of your newsletters on your site? You can now embed a paginated list of your public broadcasts emails on your Wordpress site. They can displayed in a list with subject and date, or in a grid with image and descriptions. They will all be linked to the public post that is hosted on ConvertKit.

• Product embeds: Create your storefront on your WordPress site, by adding quick embeds of your ConvertKit products. You'll be able to edit all the styles directly inside WordPress.

• Pop-up modal: You can now add a button, which is a "Form Trigger Block," so that a modal, slide-in, stick bar ConvertKit form pops up when someone clicks on the button.

• WooCommerce plugin: We also updated the ConvertKit and WooCommerce Plugin to map customer first and last names to ConvertKit custom fields. …

We are bringing new and improved functionality to the sequence editor! Whether you're sending one-off broadcasts emails or a series of emails in a sequence, you should have all the same customizations. Here are all the updates:

• Starting Point templates: Starting Point templates are now available to be used in sequences! When you go to select your template, all of your template options should now be available.
• Customize every email: In the past, you could only choose one email template for your entire email sequence. Now, you can choose to have a different template for each email in your sequence to give you more even more flexibility.
• Email styles: You will now see a new "Styles" tab on the right hand column where all the emails in your sequence live. This is where you can go to customize and format your different components of your email, just like you do in the Broadcast editor.

We hope this update to the sequence editor improves the way you build your automated email series.

You can now use Creator Network and have your recommendation modal show up on third-party forms you have on your website.

To set this up, go to Creator Profile > My Recommendations > Settings > Edit. You'll be able to find the code snippet that you'll need to paste on to any of your site pages that contain a third-party form.

If you are using Gravity Forms, you'll have to go to your form's settings and toggle on "Enable Creator Network Recommendations".

We are excited to bring more creators into the Creator Network with this update and see everyone grow their lists together.

For more instructions on how to set up Creator Network recommendations with your third-party forms, please check out this support article.

We released a few updates to the template editor to continue to improve the email template design and editing experience, as well as to create a cohesive editing experience across the platform. Here are all the improvements:

• Custom adjustments: For most of the elements in the email, you could only change the margin, padding, or content width based on specific settings we had. Now, you can input specific px measurements to get the spacing you want and create a look you need for your email.
• Additional layout columns: You can now add layout blocks with up to three columns to create even more dynamic email designs.
• Block menu in layouts: Instead of pre-set options in layout blocks, you now have access to the full content block menu in layouts as well.
• Layout UI: For all layout blocks, you can now use the up and down arrows to easily move them around your email. In addition, there are also handy tools to duplicate or delete the layout.

We hope this update to the template editor continues to improve the way you build your email newsletters.

We released a few improvements to the public posts (your public newsletter content) you feature on your Creator Profile. Here are the updates you'll see:

• Navigation: We've added navigation to make it clear on how to navigate back to your Creator Profile, so readers can continue to consume your content for longer.
• Sharing your posts: We've added in sharing capabilities on the top and at the end of the post to increase shares for your newsletter content.
• Larger sign up forms: We improved the sign up form at the end of your public post to increase sign ups to your email list.
• Read more: If you have more public posts enabled, readers will be able to see additional content at the end of each individual posts, so they can continue reading your content.

We hope this updates will continue to drive more engagement with your newsletter content and increase conversions for your email list.

We pushed out a lot of new mobile improvements to the Creator Profile to better the mobile user experience and increase conversions for you. Here is what we updated:

• Link menu: Instead of a dropdown, all your links are now on full display, making it easier for your audience to access your content. 
• Bio + Sign up form: Instead of hiding the signup form on mobile, we made your bio and sign up form visible at all times to increase new sign ups. 
• Content tabs: Instead of a stacked dropdown menu, there is now a scrollable horizontal tab with all the different content information you've added to your Creator Profile. 
• **Sharing icons:**We've also improved the styling of the share icons for your Creator Profile.

For more information about the Creator Profile, check out this Knowledge Base article.

In addition to introducing new content snippet types, we've also made some improvements to the content snippets' editing experience. Here all the updates you'll see:

• Content snippet preview in editor: When you add content snippets to your email, they will now show a preview of their content instead of the Liquid tags. This will make editing and writing your email content much easier, as you don't have to memorize what the Liquid tags represent!
• Edit content snippets directly: You can click on a snippet's preview to edit it directly in your email editor–no more switching back to the content snippet editor to make changes. If you're using the same content snippet more than once in the email, any edits will be applied to all of them.
• Available in block toolbar: You can now create snippets directly from inside your broadcasts and incentive emails via the block toolbar.
• Search for your snippet: Have a lot of content snippets? We now have a search feature in the "insert snippet" modal, so you can find the snippet you need much faster.

We hope all these improvements to the content snippets will make your email writing and editing experience seamless. To learn more about these updates, check out the Knowledge Base article.

Our content snippets are getting a facelift and a powerful upgrade. You can now create two different kinds of content snippets:

• Block Content Snippets: This will create a new block in your email content. The snippet editor also now has access to all our content blocks, which means you can add layout blocks, social icons, and more to create content snippets that you reuse all the time.
• Inline Content Snippets: This will create content that will go inline with your email content and no longer add in a line break. If you have promotions or signatures you use all the time, this will come in handy!

We hope this update to the content snippet continues to improve the way you write and create your email newsletters. To learn more about this update, check out this Knowledge Base article.

You can now set up a visual automation with the new "Email Opens" conditional field. You can split subscribers down different paths based on whether they have opened an email within a specific number of days. This is especially helpful in creating an automated list cleaning template to keep your list healthy and your engagement numbers high.

For help with setting up a new automation, check out this Knowledge Base article.

For help with cleaning your list, check out this Knowledge Base article.