What’s New In ConvertForce 1.2: A Text Block With Google Fonts, Any Block Inside Your Campaigns, And Better Accessibility

ConvertForce 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 are out. This is the biggest update since launch, so we are covering both releases in one post.

Here is the short version:

• A new Text (CF) block gives you nearly 2,000 Google Fonts and a heading level picker, right inside your campaign.
• Any block can now go inside a campaign. Core blocks, blocks from other plugins, all of them.
• Popups are now accessible. Keyboard users and screen reader users can use your campaigns properly.
• The plugin got lighter and more stable. Fewer scripts on pages without campaigns, and no more layout jumps from top bars.

Here is everything that changed, one item at a time.

What’s New In ConvertForce 1.2.0 And 1.2.1

Meet The Text (CF) Block

Text (CF) is a new ConvertForce block for writing paragraphs and headings with any Google Font. It works like the core Paragraph block you already know, with two additions that matter a lot for popups: a font picker and a heading level control.

Why does this matter? A popup is small. The headline has to do most of the work, and your theme’s default font is not always the right voice for a Black Friday offer or a calm maintenance notice. Until now, changing the font meant custom CSS or a theme setting that affected your whole site. Text (CF) lets you change it for one campaign, one block at a time.

Choose From 1,939 Google Fonts

The font picker is built for browsing, not scrolling through a giant list:

• Search by font name if you already know what you want.
• Filter by style: Sans, Serif, Display, Script, or Mono.
• Preview each font in its own typeface right in the list, so you see it before you pick it.

Popular choices like Roboto, Inter, Lato, Open Sans, Montserrat, and Noto Sans are near the top. The full library holds 1,939 fonts.

Turn Any Text Into A Heading

The HTML Element setting lets you choose whether the text is a Paragraph or a Heading 1 through Heading 6. The default is Paragraph.

This is not just about looks. Search engines and screen readers use heading levels to understand what a piece of content is about. A popup headline marked as a real heading is easier for assistive technology to read and navigate.

Style It Like Any Other Block

Text (CF) supports the styling controls you expect:

• Typography: text color, font size, and font family
• Background: solid color or gradient
• Dimensions: padding and margin
• Toolbar: alignment, bold, italic, and links

How To Add A Text (CF) Block

1. Open your campaign in the editor.
2. Click the + button and search for Text (CF).
3. Type your text.
4. In the right sidebar, open the Settings tab (gear icon) and pick an HTML Element (Paragraph or Heading 1 to 6).
5. Open the Styles tab (half circle icon) and choose a font from the Font dropdown.
6. Adjust color, size, background, and spacing, then save.

Tip: Pair one expressive font with one plain one. A Display or Script font works well for a short headline, but body text inside a popup should stay in a clean Sans or Serif so it reads quickly.

Any Block Can Now Go Inside A Campaign

Starting with 1.2.0, you can add any block to a ConvertForce campaign, including blocks from other plugins.

This is the change we are most excited about. Before this release, campaigns worked with a limited set of blocks. Now, if a block works in the WordPress block editor, it works inside your popup, slide-in, or bar.

That opens up a lot of ideas. A few examples:

• A video popup using the core Video or Embed block for a product demo.
• A pricing slide-in built with a pricing table block from a table plugin like Tableberg.
• A countdown bar using a countdown block from a block library like Ultimate Blocks.
• A photo showcase popup using a gallery or slider block from Galleryberg or Sliderberg.
• A review slide-in using a testimonial or review block from your favorite block collection.

This is what being Gutenberg-native really means. You do not have to learn a new builder or wait for us to build every element. The block library you already use becomes your campaign toolkit.

How To Add A Block From Another Plugin

1. Make sure the other plugin is installed and active.
2. Open your campaign in the editor.
3. Click the + button inside the campaign.
4. Search for the block by name and insert it.
5. Configure it the same way you would on a normal page or post.

Tip: Always preview your campaign on the front end after adding a block from another plugin. Some blocks are designed for full-width page layouts, so you may need to adjust sizes or spacing to fit inside a smaller popup or slide-in.

ConvertForce Popups Are Now Accessible

ConvertForce campaigns now work properly for visitors who use a keyboard, a screen reader, or reduced motion settings.

Accessibility is easy to forget in popup plugins, and a badly built popup can completely trap some visitors. This release fixes that. Here is what changed, in plain terms.

Lightbox Popups

• Screen readers know it is a popup. When a lightbox opens, screen readers announce it as a dialog, so visitors who cannot see the screen know something new appeared.
• Keyboard focus stays inside the popup. Pressing Tab moves through the popup’s buttons and links only, instead of wandering to the page behind it.
• Focus comes back when it closes. After the popup closes, the visitor returns to where they were on the page instead of being sent back to the top.
• The Escape key always closes it. Keyboard users always have a way out (fixed in 1.2.1).

Slide-Ins

Slide-ins are different from lightboxes. They sit in a corner and should not block the page. In 1.2.1, slide-ins are no longer treated as a modal, so keyboard users and screen reader users can still reach the rest of the page while a slide-in is showing.

Reduced Motion

Some people turn on “reduce motion” in their device settings because animations make them dizzy or uncomfortable. ConvertForce now respects that setting, so those visitors will not see the entrance animations.

You do not need to change any settings for any of this. It works automatically on all your existing campaigns.

Faster And More Stable

Performance has always been a core part of ConvertForce. These changes keep it that way.

The Pro script now loads only where it is needed. Before 1.2.1, the ConvertForce Pro frontend script loaded on every page of your site. Now it loads only on pages that actually show a campaign. Pages without a campaign skip it entirely, which means less code for the browser to download.

Top bars no longer cause layout shift. Static and sticky top bars now render at the very start of the page. Before, the bar could appear a moment after the page loaded and push everything down. That jump is called layout shift, and Google measures it as part of Core Web Vitals. Now the bar is already in place when the page appears.

Long lightbox content now scrolls. If a lightbox popup has more content than fits on the screen, it now shows a scroll area instead of getting cut off. This is especially useful on phones.

Floating content stays inside the campaign. Images or elements set to float left or right inside a bar or slide-in no longer spill outside the campaign area.

Other Improvements

The root block is now called ConvertForce. Previously it was named the Conversion block. The new name makes it obvious which block controls the whole campaign when you look at the List View. Campaign type labels have also been clarified so they are easier to understand at a glance.

A new menu icon. ConvertForce has an updated icon in the WordPress admin menu.

No more upgrade prompts for Pro users. If you already have ConvertForce Pro, you will no longer see Pro upsell messages on admin pages.

How To Update To ConvertForce 1.2.1

Go to Dashboard > Updates or Plugins and update ConvertForce. Pro users should update the free plugin first, then the Pro add-on.

Clear your page cache afterwards. The top bar fix and the Pro script change both affect how pages are built, so a cached page can hide them.

What’s Next

Opening campaigns to every block changes what ConvertForce can do, and we want to see what you build with it. If a block from another plugin does not behave well inside a campaign, let us know in the support forum so we can look into it.

We are also continuing to expand the Text (CF) block and the pattern library.

Frequently Asked Questions

Full ConvertForce 1.2.0 And 1.2.1 Changelog

1.2.1

• IMPROVE: Pro frontend script now loads only on pages that show a campaign.
• FIX: Static and sticky top bars now render at the start of the page body, preventing layout shift.
• FIX: Lightbox popups can always be closed with the Escape key.
• FIX: Accessibility: slide-ins are no longer treated as modal, so keyboard focus and screen readers can still reach the rest of the page.
• FIX: Floating content inside static bars and slide-ins no longer goes outside the campaign area.

1.2.0

• NEW: Text block with Google Fonts font family control.
• NEW: Any block can now be added inside a campaign, including blocks from other plugins.
• IMPROVE: Accessibility: popups expose dialog semantics, trap and restore focus, announce to screen readers, and respect reduced motion.
• IMPROVE: Renamed the root block to ConvertForce and clarified campaign type labels.
• IMPROVE: Updated menu icon.
• FIX: Pro upsell no longer shows on admin pages for Pro users.
• FIX: Added scroll view for large lightbox content.

The complete version history is on the ConvertForce changelog at WordPress.org.