Install a widget to an email

[ElfsightBot]

Install a widget to an email

[Helga]

Folks, our former Wishlist portal, where our users shared their requests and suggestions, was transferred to this forum. You’re most welcome to vote, add new ideas, and leave your comments here — we surely will consider them all!

Original Votes: 6

[ElfsightBot]

Original comment transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Maybe if you generate a GIF version of the widget it could work with email providers (Klaviyo, Mailchimp, etc.)

[ElfsightBot]

Original comment from Angelo Di-Benedetto transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Great idea!

[ElfsightBot]

Original comment from Drew Perdichizzi transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

There is some way to do this, although I don’t have the answer myself. This is a SaaS I’ve used in the past that allows for this:

http://motionmailapp.com/

If you can figure out how they do it, then should be easy to duplicate!

[ElfsightBot]

Original comment from Drew Perdichizzi transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

I just figured out how the MotionMail app works.

Once the user has created the timer in the app, they are given a link that refers to the timer itself as an image file.

Then when you want to put that into an email, you use the “add image” function of the email provider and choose “add image from URL”.

The timer is hosted on the MotionMail servers and is just referenced by the email when sent out.

Ingenious in its simplicity. Take a look below:

Here is a screen capture of how I did this: LWR_Recording (1).mp4 - Droplr

Here is the bare URL that I associated with the image file: http://s.mmgo.io/t/CX4u

If you click the link itself, you will just see the countdown timer as a standalone on the webpage.

[ONFireChiefs]

Oh this would be such a helpful feature!

Thank you in advance for your consideration

[Helga]

@ONFireChiefs of course! I’ll keep updated you on how things are going in this thread

Don’t forget to vote for the ideas you like in order to bump them up, it might help speed up the development process

And welcome to the Elfsight Community! Great to have you join

[Eric13 (Eric)]

Many of the widgets listed on this site would be brilliant in an HTML email as well. Please integrate anything that would be needed to effectively use the code in an HTML block in a Gmail template, for example. Other HTML email editors could also use such code, such as Bee.io.

Thanks,
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[Helga]

@Eric13 thank you very much for sharing your idea, and welcome to the Elfsight Community!

I also love this idea and hope we’ll be able to make it happen in our future updates. I’ll make sure to keep you updated here

Thanks a lot for your help, it’s much appreciated!

[user18633]

I would like to be able to add the social media widgets to my email signature so people can click and go directly to my social pages

[Max]

Hi there, @user18633

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts!

If this idea gets more votes from the community, we’ll try to think about this opportunity in the future

[Jos (Jos Jaspers)]

Elfsight widgets are now limited to use in websites/pages/posts. I would be great to use widgets ‘offline’ like in newsletters. Please vote up if you would like this also.

[Max]

Hey there, @Jos

We already have a similar suggestion on the Wishlist! I’ve merged your comment with the original request, where we’ll keep you updated