Link field

Hey everyone!

We’ve got an exciting update on our new link field! This week, we have our first internal demo ready, which covers the initial scope of the new link field. The demo shows that the label and link are now combined into one field, and you can add a repeatable property. This means it’ll be super easy to create common slices, like Hero sections, with multiple links or buttons.

We’re aiming to release this feature in the first week of September. After that, we’ll follow up by adding a variant property to give you even more flexibility.

As part of our broader focus on making the link field more powerful and intuitive, we’re also considering additional features. For example, we’re thinking about:

• Allowing marketers to repeat the link or button multiple times.
• Adding Variant property, that you'll be able to leverage as "style” for your buttons & links

These ideas aren’t finalized yet and might change based on the feedback we get from you.

We’re committed to creating the best possible developer experience, making it easy for you to build advanced designs while keeping things simple for marketing teams. Our goal is to make your experience with Prismic enjoyable and perfectly aligned with how websites are built.

Stay tuned for more updates, and let us know what you think!

Hey there,

We are working on taking our link field one step further as part of our broader focus on simplifying and making it more intuitive for developers to create advanced designs and for those designs to display in a simple way within slices in the Page Builder.

The first improvement the team is introducing to the link field is to add an optional label to the link field.

Next, we are also considering some other additions to the link field that would make the experience of creating links and buttons within slices simpler and more powerful.

These considerations are not finalized and might change depending on the feedback we get from you.

For example, we are considering how to:

• Allow marketers to repeat the link or button multiple times
• Add custom style properties (example: add a “style” select field with 3 values “primary,” “secondary,” “tertiary”)
• Add an icon property to the link field

We remain committed to creating the most powerful developer experience, providing the flexibility to build advanced designs while ensuring simplicity for marketing teams. Ultimately, we want to make your experience of creating pages with Prismic enjoyable and aligned with how websites are built.

Last quarter, we introduced an improvement to Prismic, allowing you to build slices with multiple repeatable groups of content. Our next step was to develop “advanced groups,” enabling the addition of nested groups within groups.

In the process of designing the solution while talking to developers like you who use Prismic, we realized that groups within groups are complex and do not align with our vision of creating the simplest page builder for marketing websites.

To enhance the editing experience, we decided to focus on the concept of groups and challenge ourselves: can we cover common website elements (80% of use cases) without the complex concept of groups? What if we can bring you specific, out-of-the-box solutions for these common cases instead?

We are starting by focusing on buttons as the first elements. Our aim is to identify improvements that will facilitate easy button creation for both developers and marketers.

After addressing these simple cases, we will revisit the topic to explore solutions for the remaining advanced cases.