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Common Ninja: News & Updates — May 2024

Sergei Davidov,
Common Ninja: News & Updates — May 2024

This month, we're excited to bring you a fresh array of innovations and enhancements that are sure to add value to your experience. Our focus has been on developing new widgets and introducing exciting features, each designed to offer more flexibility, efficiency, and creativity in your interactions with our products. 


Whether you're a long-time user or new to our platform, these updates are tailored to help you achieve more with less effort. Dive in to discover what's new and how these changes can enhance your daily workflow!


New Widget Highlight: The Booking Widget


Introducing our newest addition – the Booking Widget, a highly anticipated tool designed to transform how appointments and reservations are managed on your website. This cutting-edge tool simplifies the booking process for your users, providing a seamless, intuitive interface that integrates directly into your site. With its robust functionality, you can customize available times, services, and booking details to match your business needs precisely.


The Booking Widget stands out due to its user-friendly design and flexibility. It supports various industries, whether you’re scheduling consultations, classes, or events. Enhanced with responsive design, it looks great on any device, ensuring that your customers can book appointments on-the-go.


Perfect for businesses looking to streamline their scheduling processes without compromising on aesthetics, this widget offers powerful back-end features that make management a breeze. From automatic confirmations to integrated payment options, it covers all bases. This is the widget users have been waiting for, making it the best choice for anyone looking to add a professional booking system to their website.


Introducing: New Widgets




Booking Widget: Simplify your appointment scheduling with our Booking Widget. This tool offers a seamless integration to allow users to book meetings or services directly on your website. It's ideal for managing reservations or appointments, and it's fully customizable to ensure it fits perfectly with your site's aesthetics.


Reviews Trust Box Widget: Strengthen your website's trustworthiness with the Reviews Trust Box Widget. Showcase customer reviews and ratings prominently to build confidence among prospective clients. This widget is designed to boost consumer trust through transparency and real user feedback, enhancing your online reputation.


LinkedIn Feed Widget: Enhance your site's connectivity and professional appeal with the LinkedIn Feed Widget. Display your LinkedIn updates directly on your site to keep visitors informed with the latest from your professional network. This widget is perfect for sharing company news, new posts, or professional achievements with your audience.


Social Proof Widget: Boost conversion rates with the Social Proof Widget. This widget displays real-time user activities, like purchases or sign-ups, to new visitors, demonstrating the trust others have in your services or products. Customizable and easy to integrate, it's an effective tool for enhancing user engagement and building credibility.


Introducing: New Integrations


We are thrilled to announce exciting new integrations for many of our widgets, including the FAQ Widgets, the 3D Cards Widget, and the Calendar Widget, among others. 


These enhancements now allow for the importation of data directly from RSS feeds and XML files, opening up a world of possibilities for content management and data utilization. 


Whether you're looking to streamline the update process for your FAQ sections, enrich your 3D cards with dynamic content, or ensure your calendars reflect the most current events, these new integrations provide a seamless and efficient solution. 


Introducing: New Features


We’ve added new features to the following widgets : 


Quiz Maker: We've enhanced the Quiz Maker widget by adding reports support. Now, users can easily generate and access detailed performance reports.


Reviews: For our Reviews widgets, we've introduced multi-language support for times, making it more accessible globally. Additionally, in using "layout 1", we've added an option to disable animation, allowing for a more static display if preferred.


Pricing Tables: The Pricing Tables widget has a new template, inspired by our own pricing page, to provide a seamless and familiar user experience.


News Ticker: We've added items order randomization to the News Ticker, allowing for a dynamic display of news items that captures more attention.


Event Listings: The Event Listings widget now features improved cards alignment, enhancing the visual organization and display of events.


Mega Footer: The Mega Footer widget now includes device settings, offering more customization options based on user device preferences.


Timeline: We've added colors for each item in the Timeline widget, which allows for a more customized and visually engaging timeline.


Booking: The Booking widget now includes a 'Week Starts On' setting, providing more flexibility in scheduling preferences.


Forms: Our Forms are now stand-in accessibility standards, ensuring that they are accessible to a wider range of users.


Etsy Reviews: We've added support for product page reviews in the Etsy Reviews widget, making it easier to display reviews directly on product pages.


Scratch Card: The Scratch Card widget now allows setting attempts per user, providing more control over how users interact with the feature.


Polls: For the Polls widget, we've added an option to submit votes once per day, week, or month, facilitating more controlled voting periods.


Editor: In the Editor, we've added an option to set the width & height of elements in both pixels and percentages, allowing for precise design adjustments.