We’ve updated settings for one of the most popular components in custom blocks — Gallery. You can now choose between Grid, Stacked, and Slider layouts to customize your gallery.

With the Slider layout, you can display gallery images in a slideshow format by allowing site visitors to click through items, or making a slideshow play automatically. You can align two images side by side, set the spacing between items, choose slider options, and change the color of controls.

If you pick the Stacked Layout, all images in the Stacked layout are mutually complementary by default, but you can also change the spacing between them.

To test our new layouts, add a Gallery element in a custom block and navigate to the Layout tab in the Gallery settings.

We can’t wait to tell you about our new integration. You can now communicate with your site visitors via chats using LiveChat or Tawk.to chat.

There are numerous advantages of having a website chat: 

• Instant and live communication with website visitorsIncreased trustworthiness and reliability of your site and business
• Quick and more effective sales
• 24/7 assistance of your existing and potential clients

Check our complete guide for setting up a Tawk.to chat. 
Take a look at our ultimate tutorial for adding a LiveChat.

We've made it easy for you to synchronize form fields on your site with corresponding fields in your Mailchimp audience list.

From now on, you can automatically transfer user-submitted data from a specific contact field to a relevant column in your Mailchimp contacts table.

To set this up:

1. Go to the site settings and set up the Mailchimp integration.
2. Navigate to the Integrations tab in the Form settings and set up the Mailchimp integration.
3. Choose the relevant audience list and click on “Sync fields with Mailchimp.”
4. Connect contact form fields with relevant Mailchimp fields.

Here is a more detailed guide on how to connect Mailchimp to a contact form. 

A Facebook pixel is a code generated at your Facebook Events manager. It collects data that is based on the actions that people take on your website.

From now on, you don’t need to know how to insert the Facebook pixel in the code. You can add it via simple integration that only requires you to copy the Facebook pixel in your Facebook Events manager and paste it in the Analytics tab in the site settings.

You can place the code on your website to track and optimize Facebook ads, build lookalike audiences for future ads, and launch remarketing campaigns. 

If you’re ready to check, take a look at Facebook's instructions on how to create and install the Facebook pixel.

From now on, you have full control of your website indexing. You can allow or forbid search engines to crawl your website with just one click.

Find a magic switch that lets it happen at the bottom of the page in the General info tab in the Settings. 

After toggling on or off the “Visibility in search results” option, don't forget to publish your site for the changes to take effect.

Note that this switch is on by default, which means that your website is indexed in search engines after you publish it for the first time.

Need more guidance? Check this guide on hiding a website in search engines.

Check our significant improvement for the Blog App! It’ll help you make your blog posts more SEO friendly.

• You may now write an additional post title for search engines, which you can find as an SEO title in the editor.
  
  To add a custom SEO title, click on the Edit post button, navigate to the Settings, and enable the “Set custom title” option. 
  
  If you don’t write an SEO title for your blog post, it will be automatically generated from your post title and site title.

• From now on, you can block your blog post from indexing, which may come in useful when you don't want to delete a published blog post but need to hide it from search results for a while.

• You can also add a ”nofollow” tag to all the links in the blog post if you want to disallow search engines to follow the external resources you refer to.

We’re happy to tell you about our new and highly requested improvement — Date field in contact forms.

You can use this feature to let your site visitors:

• make appointments;
• arrange a meeting or call;
• book your products or services;
• book a date and time for services to be provided;
• register for an event;
• etc.

Make the date field required and add a description to this field. Use a time picker to set a specific time if necessary. Add time ranges to the time options displayed on the calendar.

We’re excited to introduce our new functionality ⁠— Hidden fields in contact forms ⁠— that will allow you to use UTM tracking with contact forms. You’ll receive the UTM parameters included in your website’s link in every form submission email. You can send form submissions directly to your inbox, Mailchimp account, or almost anywhere you want with Zapier integration. 

This feature is particularly beneficial if you have a few sites on Weblium, as it allows you to understand which of your websites you got a form submission from. Also, it will help you track your site’s performance in Google Analytics.

Let us tell you one more great thing related to the new feature. 

You can duplicate the block that contains the contact form. This allows you to easily apply all the settings you've just chosen to the duplicate contact form.

Here is an even more detailed guide on how to set up UTM tracking with contact forms.

Now you can set the emails of your teammates or partners in the contact forms so that they will always be informed about your business by receiving form requests from your potential customers.

You can add multiple emails in the Form integrations tab in the Site Settings and choose needed email addresses in the Form settings.

From now on, you can regulate the number of blog posts in the Blog feed or display all the posts you have. You can choose the Feed style from Classic, Horizontal, and Postcard options and customize it yourself.

Read more about Weblium Blogging functionality.