The Drag & Drop Editor is designed to help you build your Marketing Emails and Workflows emails! The combination of drag-and-drop ease, plus full customization options, will have you building dynamic, engaging emails in no time.

In this article, we'll cover:

• Basic overview
• Getting started
• Content Blocks
  • Text
  • Content
  • Advanced
  • Signatures in Emails

Basic overview

The email body contains two types of components:

• Rows
  • These are the outermost "container" inside the email body
  • Stacked from top-to-bottom, filling the whole width, and expanding to fit the height of their content
  • Rows contain "columns" that fill the width of the email body "Content Area"
  • You can add or remove columns in an existing row, or add a new row with a pre-configured column layout
• Content blocks
  • These can only be placed inside Row columns
  • They stack vertically inside a column, fill its width, and expand to the size of their own contents
  • See below for more details!

Getting started

1. Click and drag any row or content block from the right sidebar into the email body.
   
   • Content blocks will stack from the top of their container by default, so use "Spacer" blocks if you need blank space between other content blocks
     
   • Once you have a content block entered, clicking on that content block will change the Content tab on the left to that block's settings. Each type of content block has its own unique settings. This will also open up a text formatter for any text blocks.
     
     
     
2. At any time, you can toggle your view from desktop to mobile in the editor, to see how the email will look in each format.
   
3. If you have Custom Branding enabled, your custom branding colors will be automatically applied to your content blocks' color scheme. You can change these at any time, too!
   
4. Each content block's settings will have the optional setting to hide the block on desktop or mobile if you need to.
   

   • This allows you to customize the appearance of your email on mobile devices, such as an alternate copy, layout, etc.

   • By default, this setting is automatically set to "Off", choose the icon for desktop or mobile on where you would like to hide it

   • Toggling the Drag & Drop Editor between Desktop and Mobile in the top-left of the editor will allow you to see what the changes look like

     • As always, the best way to check an email's appearance is to use the Send > Send Test feature!

Content Blocks

The blocks that are available:

Text

1. Title: the very top of your email - by default, this is a short text block with large, bold font, to help grab the reader's attention! 
   • Adjustable content properties include font settings for text/links, alignment and spacing, and padding on either side of the block
2. Paragraph: your basic text editor - by default, this is a standard font and size text box, to enter any long-form text you need to
   • Adjustable content properties include font settings for text/links, alignment and spacing, and padding on either side of the block
3. List: create bulleted and numbered lists to highlight and organize key information, and break up bulky paragraphs
   • Adjustable content properties include bulleted and numbered list formats, font size and color, alignment and spacing, and padding on either side of the block

Content

1. Button: add a call to action button to your email, with an embedded link, to encourage clicks! You can completely customize this, including:
   
   • Link type; website, send email to, send SMS to, or Call
   • Button size and font settings
   • Text alignment, spacing, and direction
   • Button padding (padding in the button, around the text)
   • Block padding (padding on either side of the button)
2. Divider: a simple line to break up your email into different blocks
   
   • Adjustable content properties include solid/dotted/dashed line, width and height, alignment, color, and padding on either side
3. Spacer: a blank space for you to help spread your content out. The content aligns to the top in the editor by default, so you can use this if you don't want one content block immediately under the next one
   • Adjustable by height
4. Image: upload any image from your Media Library in Wodify into the email. Simple and fast! Adjustable content properties include 
   • Expanding to full-screen width on mobile
   • Add effects - edit the photo or add stickers 
   • Add alt text for screen readers as an accessibility option
   • Call to action - turn the image into a button that can open a website, send an email, send an SMS, or make a call
   • Padding on either side of the image
5. Table: use cells to display data
   
   • Adjustable columns, rows, and header styling
   • Note: these do not currently support pasting spreadsheet data, but will in the future
6. Video: embed a YouTube or Vimeo link into your email, inserting a video thumbnail that will link out to the video itself
   • Adjustable content properties include the video title, thumbnail icon settings, and padding on either side
7. GIF: add an animated GIF from Giphy to add some fun and motion to the email. Pro-tip: avoid GIFs that move too fast or have a strobing effect; readers will often close the emails if a GIF is too active
   • Adjustable content properties include expanding to full width on mobile, and turning the GIF
8. Social: add social media icon buttons that link out to your pages. You can choose from Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn; or create your own!
   • Adjustable content properties include icon themes, displayed social links, adding new social links and icons, spacing and alignment, and padding on either side
9. Icons: create your own small sticker-like icons (like social media buttons), using images from your Media Library. Turn your logo into a sticker that links to your website, to add to the top or bottom of your email!
   
   • toggle More Options on next to the icon to create a link that opens a website, send an email, send an SMS, or make a call
   • Other adjustable content properties include adding text to icons with customizable fonts and colors, icon spacing, icon size, and icon padding

Advanced

1. HTML: add custom code to your email! The editor is meant to simplify the process of creating an engaging email, but if there are any options missing, you can add your own custom code to create your email!
   • Note: Wodify Support is not equipped to assist with custom HTML code. It's recommended to defer to someone with expertise in HTML coding for help with this if you're not an expert yourself

Signatures in Marketing Emails

The Location Signature & Staff Signature will populate in your emails based on what is selected in the From Name (shown above).

Location Signature - [location-signature]

This is the signature you will see in your Marketing Emails by default. This signature will populate based on either:

• The selected Location within the From Name field, or
• The default location of the Admin who created the Marketing Email

Staff Signature - [staff-signature]

The Staff Signature will populate based on either:

• The selected Staff member in the From Name field, or
• The Admin who created the Marketing Email

Signature - [signature]

We do not recommend using this placeholder, but will continue to support it for the foreseeable future.

• The [signature] placeholder will populate based only on what is selected in the From Name field. (Location, Staff). 
• The [signature] placeholder will not populate anything if a Business name or custom alias is chosen in the From Name field.
  
  

If you need any additional assistance with the Marketing Email Editor feel free to reach out to us at support@wodify.com or via Priority Live Chat in your admin account.