Add-on

Stories & Reels

A stories row on the homepage (what is on now, recent winners and your own slides, full screen, swipe through), a reels feed of short upright videos at /reels with likes and a button to what they show, customers' own clips once staff approve them, and winner reels: a winner turns their win into a branded clip to keep, share or post.

  • Version 1.0.16

Add-on

Buy and install it from Add-ons in your admin panel.

Changelog

  1. Version 1.0.16 4 Nov 2026

    - For developers: this plugin now tells the coming Clear test data tool what to do with each of its tables (empty it, keep it, or remove it only with customer accounts). Nothing changes for store owners yet.
    - For developers: tells the coming Clear test data tool how to find this add-on's uploaded files or recorded payouts, so a clear deletes the files behind removed records and asks before wiping a payout record.

  2. Version 1.0.15 29 Oct 2026

    - Amharic (አማርኛ) translation, machine-translated (review welcome).
    - Oromo (Afaan Oromoo) translation, machine-translated (review welcome).

  3. Version 1.0.14 27 Oct 2026

    - A guest who uses something here that needs an account is sent to sign in and then back to the page they were on, instead of to the home page.
    - The example in the story and reel "Button link" field reads /winners.
    - On tablets and desktops, Reels shows a grid of reel cards: each plays a short silent preview when pointed at or focused, and opens the reel when clicked. Phones keep the feed.
    - A visitor who signs in to like a reel comes back to that reel.

  4. Version 1.0.13 26 Oct 2026

    - Adds Thai (ไทย). Machine-translated; review welcome.
    - Japanese translation.

  5. Version 1.0.12 25 Oct 2026

    - Product pictures in stories are no longer cropped or enlarged: each shows on a card over a soft blurred copy of itself, never wider than the picture really is, with the prize type, the name and one clear button worded for it (Bid now, Get a ticket, Open a box, See all winners).
    - A new Stories style setting: Card, Full bleed (upright pictures big enough fill the screen, the others show as a card) or Poster (a smaller picture on your theme colour). A theme can pick its own default; your own slides always fill the screen.
    - Winner slides show the prize on the same card instead of a trophy and confetti, and still pictures zoom slowly unless the visitor asks for less motion.
    - On tablets and computers the story frame keeps the upright 9:16 shape of a phone screen instead of coming out a little wider.

  6. Version 1.0.11 25 Oct 2026

    - Adds Polish (pl) text. Machine-translated.

  7. Version 1.0.10 21 Oct 2026

    - Slide and reel cover pictures are redrawn before they are stored, so a phone photo no longer publishes where it was taken; pictures over 8000 pixels on a side are refused.
    - Reel authors are named the way the store shows winners (initials or alias), not always by first name and last initial.
    - A reel left by a deleted account can no longer be approved back onto the feed; it can only be deleted.
    - Changing how winners are named takes effect on the Winners circle at once.

  8. Version 1.0.9 21 Oct 2026

    - Only the story slides the homepage shows (switched on, started and not expired) and staff reels the feed shows are sent for translation. Needs kernel 1.1.565 or later.