Yaplet's news feed lets you publish short update posts — new feature announcements, maintenance notices, product changelog entries, or any update you want visitors to see when they open the widget. Posts appear in the News tab of the widget and are not tied to any trigger rule.
Before you start: the News tab must be enabled in your widget's appearance settings before published posts will appear. If you don't see a News tab in the widget, open the widget settings and turn it on.
News posts vs outreach campaigns
News posts are always visible in the widget news tab for anyone who opens it — they're passive. Outreach campaigns (banners, messages, surveys, tours) are active: Yaplet pushes them to the visitor based on a trigger. Use news for updates you want discoverable; use outreach for messages you want to interrupt.
1. Open the News & Releases editor
Go to Outreach → News & Releases in the dashboard. Click Add News & Releases in the top right, then choose New Item in the modal (or start from a template — Release Note or News).
2. Write the post
Fill in the following fields:
- Title (required) — The headline. Keep it one line and descriptive. "New: Custom reports" works; "Update" does not.
- Widget (required) — Which widget should display this post. If you have only one widget, just leave the default.
- Language (required) — Defaults to English. Set this to the language the post is written in.
- Published — Toggle on to make the post visible in the widget immediately. Leave off to keep it as a draft (only visible in the dashboard).
- Image (optional) — A cover image shown at the top of the post. Accepts JPEG, PNG, or WebP.
- AI Tools (optional) — Use AI Content to generate, continue, or edit the post body, and AI Title to auto-write a title from your draft content.
- Content — The full post body in the main editor. Supports rich text — headings, bold, links, images, and bullet lists. Write as much or as little as the update warrants.
3. Publish or save as draft
Toggle the post to Published to make it visible immediately in the widget. Leave it unpublished to save as a draft — drafts are visible only in the dashboard.
Posts in the news feed are ordered by Weight (highest first). New posts get the highest weight by default, so the newest post is on top automatically. You can manually reorder posts via the up/down arrows in the news list.
4. Edit or unpublish a post
You can edit a published post at any time — changes appear in the widget immediately. To remove a post from the feed without deleting it, toggle it back to unpublished (draft).
What visitors see
When a visitor opens the widget and taps the News tab, they see a scrollable list of your published posts sorted by date, newest first. Tapping a post opens the full content. There's no notification badge for new posts — visitors discover them by opening the tab.
What's next?
If you want to push an announcement to visitors rather than waiting for them to discover it in the news tab, use an in-app banner or a proactive message instead.