The Display tab does two jobs: it decides how the card gets onto your site, and it holds the settings that belong to whichever way you picked. It is the first tab, and it is the only one you have to look at before anything else on the card means anything.
Internal title #
The only field that is always here. This is the card’s own name in the admin — the label in the All Cards list and the fallback if you delete it from anywhere else. Give it something you will recognise six months later, like Alex Morgan — speaker profile. It is never shown to visitors.
Display #
Three choices, and this one decision changes which panels open underneath it.
| Choice | What it does | You place it |
|---|---|---|
| Manual | Keeps the shortcode available for placement anywhere. | You do, with a shortcode, a block or the Elementor widget. |
| Automatic | Publishes the card without a shortcode. A second field then decides whether it appears as a popup or inside the content. | The plugin does. |
| Link in bio page | Gives the card an address of its own on the site, shown alone on its own page. | The plugin does, at the address you choose. |
Manual #
Nothing else appears on the tab. The card waits for you. Open the editor and the shortcode is next to the title with a Copy button beside it:
[spcad_card id="548"]
Paste it into a page, a post, a text widget, a footer, a template — anywhere WordPress renders shortcodes. Everything around it stays exactly where you put it.
Only cards set to Manual appear in the shortcode’s list, in the block’s dropdown and in the Elementor widget, because those are the three places you place a card by hand. If a card is missing from all three, this is why.
Full placement options are in Where to publish a card.
Automatic #
Choose Automatic and a second field appears, called Display type, with two options. The rest of the panel depends on which one you pick.
Automatic, as a popup #
The card appears in a modal over the page. Everything below configures it.
| Option | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Display type | Display as popup | Opens over the page. |
| Where to display | Entire website Posts PRO WooCommerce products PRO Selected URLs only PRO | Which pages the popup is allowed to appear on. The free version can show it across the whole site, or hide it from URLs you list. |
| Don’t show on these URLs | One URL per line | A blocklist. Partial URLs work, and * is a wildcard, so */checkout/* covers every checkout page. Shown for every location except Selected URLs only. |
| Only show on these URLs | One URL per line | An allowlist. Only shown when Where to display is Selected URLs only. PRO |
| Popup trigger | Appear immediately After timeout PRO On scroll PRO | When it opens. Appear immediately is a free option; the other two are Pro. |
| Timeout (seconds) | 1 to 3600, default 5 | How long after the page loads before it opens. Only shown when the trigger is After timeout. PRO |
| Scroll percent | 1 to 100, default 50 | How far down the page the reader must get before it opens. Only shown when the trigger is On scroll. PRO |
| Maximum appearances | 0 to 100, default 3 | How many times it may appear before it stops showing for that reader. Enter 0 for unlimited. PRO |
| Limit period (days) | 1 to 3650, default 30 | How long the appearance count is remembered before it resets. PRO |
A popup with Appear immediately, no exclusion list, on the whole site, is the free version’s whole popup offer — and it is genuinely useful. The targeting options are what Pro adds: choosing who sees it, when it appears, and how often.
Automatic, inside the content #
| Option | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Display type | Display inside the content | Drops the card into the post itself. |
| Content location | At the bottom of the post content At the top of the post content Below price in WooCommerce products | Where it lands. Top and bottom are applied to the post content; below price is placed under a product’s price by WooCommerce. |
| Don’t show on these URLs | One URL per line | Skips the card on pages you name. Partial URLs and * wildcards work. |
This is the quietest of the four display types: no modal, no separate address, and the card simply becomes part of the article.
Link in bio page #
Choose this and the card is given an address of its own and shown alone on it. The panel fills up with five extra fields.
Page slug #
The only required field here. What comes after the site address in the browser. The plugin shows your site address next to the box so you can see the whole thing.
jordan-reyes→example.com/jordan-reyesbio/jordan-reyes→example.com/bio/jordan-reyes, a folder. Up to four levels deep.- Leave it empty and the card’s own name is used, tidied into a slug. A new card works immediately without you typing an address.
A live link to the finished page appears below the box once the slug is valid.
CarefulThe editor checks the slug twice. If a published post or page already uses that address, you are told the card cannot be shown there. If another card uses it, you are told which card has it. Both are warnings you can ignore at your peril — in either case the address will show the wrong thing until you change it.
Offer a share button #
Off by default. Switch it on and a round button with a share icon appears in the top right corner of the card, filled with your accent colour.
It is one switch with nothing else to fill in, because everything it shares comes from the page itself:
- The address is the page’s own URL.
- The title it sends is the SEO title below.
- The words it sends are the SEO description below.
On a phone it opens the visitor’s own share sheet. Everywhere else it copies the address and says so. The button’s name is Share this page, which is what a screen reader announces.
Cards that are not published as their own page do not get a share button, because there is nothing of their own to share.
SEO title #
Used as the page title, and as the headline that appears when the address is shared. Leave it empty and the card’s display name is used instead. This is what search engines and social networks read, so it is worth writing deliberately — Jordan Reyes | Photographer rather than Jordan Reyes.
SEO description #
A sentence or two about the page, used when the address is shared and by search engines. Leave it empty and the card’s bio is used. Keep it under about 160 characters; anything longer is cut off in the results anyway.
Social media image #
The picture shown when the address is shared on social media. Leave it empty and the card’s cover image is used, or failing that the profile picture. Pick a landscape image at least 1200 by 630 pixels for it to look right.
Loading method #
Only a bio page can do this, and it is worth understanding before you change it.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Optimized | Loads only this plugin’s own styles and scripts, and leaves everything else the theme had queued out of the page. This is the default. |
| Standard | Loads everything the page has queued, exactly as it would without a card. |
CarefulIf you use a custom button that contains a shortcode, or one of the WooCommerce blocks, switch back to Standard. Those need scripts this plugin does not own, and Optimized will strip them. The field says this in the interface; it is worth reading rather than discovering it.
Hide the plugin badge #
The last field on the tab, and the only one always visible.
There is a small optional credit under the buttons saying which plugin made the card. It is off — that is, hidden — by default, and this switch is how you bring it back. Nothing is stamped onto your card unless you ask for it.
TipA card set to Link in bio page always has its outer background switched on, whatever this screen shows, because the bio page is the whole page. There is no outer area to leave blank.