Blocks
Everything on a link page is a block. You add, reorder, hide, and delete blocks in the editor's Build tab, then save.
The five block types
| Block | What it renders | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Link | A tracked button to any URL | A title and an absolute http:// or https:// URL. Optionally a thumbnail image from Files. |
| Form | A button to one of your forms | One of your workspace's forms, plus the button label. |
| Socials | A row of profile chips | 1–10 entries, each a network (Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, or Website) and an http(s) URL. |
| Image | An image from your Files | A ready image asset, plus alt text (up to 200 characters; may be left empty). Optionally a link to open when tapped. |
| Header | A small section label | Text (1–100 characters). |
Block titles and labels are capped at 100 characters.
Hiding a block
Every block carries a visible flag. Hiding a block keeps it in the page definition and in the editor but stops it rendering publicly — use it to park something you'll bring back rather than deleting and rebuilding it. Hidden blocks are also left out of stats, because they can't have been seen.
Link blocks mint a short link
When you save a link block for the first time, big creates a short link for it and the public page renders that short link, not your target URL. That's what makes per-block click counts possible.
Two consequences worth knowing:
- Editing a link block's URL retargets the same code. The click history stays attached, so your numbers don't reset when you fix a typo or swap a campaign destination.
- Those short links are the page's, not entries in your links list. They're left out of Manage → Links (and
big links/GET /api/links) by default, since you never typed those codes — read their clicks on the page's Stats tab instead. To list them anyway, see Links created for you.
A missing reference hides the block
Blocks store references — a form's id, a file's id, a short-link code — not a copy of the thing. When the page is rendered, big re-checks every reference against your workspace. If a reference no longer resolves, that one block is silently left off the page instead of breaking it. This happens when:
- the image was deleted from Files, hasn't finished processing, or isn't a previewable image format;
- the form was deleted, or is no longer active (a draft or closed form's button disappears rather than dead-ending);
- the short link behind a link block was deleted (Manage → Links, Show them too).
The rest of the page renders normally, and visitors are never told why something is missing. If a block vanishes from your live page, check its reference first.
Bounds
A page holds at most 200 blocks, and the whole block definition must serialize to under 64 KiB. These are abuse guards, not plan limits — there is no per-plan cap on link pages.
Editing safely
The editor saves the whole block list at once and refuses a save that would overwrite someone else's newer version — if a teammate (or another browser tab) changed the page since you loaded it, you're told to reload rather than silently clobbering their work.