We published a new version of our Zapier app! This version offers additional support for long and complex Zapier flows.
Previously, if you needed to handle a lot of data for your Placid images, Zapier would sometimes say "nah" and give you a timeout before we got to generating your image. Now you can send the image to a queue and retrieve it via its ID later.
No timeouts, no problems 😎
If you use v1.0.0 of our integration, you can update without worrying. There are no breaking changes.
As per popular request, you can now set your template's canvas to transparent! 🎉 Doing this makes us deliver PNG files automatically.
Edit your templates to activate this canvas setting. Have fun with this – we're sure this will power a lot of creative use cases 👀
You can now map reference fields from your Webflow collections to elements in your Placid templates. This gives you access to all of the fields of the referenced items as well. Fieldception! 🤓
This makes the mapping even more flexible, and supports clean content modeling in Webflow.
We worked on making Airtable automations more convenient for you and your customers! We now offer two nifty scripts:
Add a button inside of your Airtable base that starts all Placid actions to generate all your images.
Using the new awesome Airtable automations, we can now regenerate your images automatically as soon as you edit a record. This script starts all Placid actions and overwrites existing images for the edited record.
Not going to lie, seeing the images update in real-time is super satisfying to watch. Please try it out and tell us what you think!
Find customized scripts for these actions in your project settings ✌️
Our REST API got some nice additions to offer more flexibility 🤸
hide flag to hide certain layers on the fly (to dynamically show or hide promo CTAs for example!)polling_url endpoint that you can GET poll for status updatesHead over to our documentation to see how to use these features!
We added a bunch of new image templates for Instagram story images and square feed images (f.ex. for Facebook)!
If you create a new template, the canvas sizes for these images are also among the default settings, so you don't have to set them up manually.
We are stoked about our new nocode integration! Now you can easily automate the social card images for your Ghost publication.
Placid now connects to the Ghost API and updates the social card images of your content automatically.
Our friends at Ghost published an official integration guide, if you want to read more.
Some of you already tested this feature with us, as this was developed by popular demand 🔥
Now everyone can upload and use custom fonts in their templates! Manage your own fonts within your user settings.
Your fonts will be available in the fonts menu in the editor, and are only used to create your previews and images, of course ✌️
Y'all – this is powerful. This new feature for our WordPress plugin gives you the possibility to create multiple share assets for your posts & pages on demand: Variations for Pinterest or Instagram images, or other feed images.
You just have to…
Okay, okay, here's the more detailed walkthrough on how to set this up:
We have been testing this especially with Thiago from Paizinho, vírgula!, who is already happily generating Instagram story images with it 💜
We already got some awesome people from the Webflow community to use Placid for their sites (through the API or Zapier) before – but we thought this connection could be so much more powerful with a custom integration!
So we integrate with Webflow natively now 🎉
Here's a sneak peak showing you how to set up an automation action for Webflow: