Changelog

Social buttons, share buttons and dashboard settings now use the X logo and name. Your existing links carry over — nothing to update.

Scheduling a blog post, video, or episode for the future is easier to read at a glance. The new calendar picker shows the date and time together in plain language, with the time always visible and a clear Done button to confirm your choice.

It's available everywhere you set a publish date — blog posts, videos, and episodes — and works the same in both light and dark mode.

Your guest list can now spotlight the guests you want new visitors to see first. Open Guests in your dashboard and switch to the new Featured tab to mark guests as featured and drag them into the order you want.

Featured guests appear in their own section at the top of your public guest page, ahead of the full list. Newly featured guests are automatically placed at the top of that order, so your latest highlight is always the first thing visitors see.

You can now click View on Website for a blog post that's still in draft and actually see it, styled and laid out exactly as it will look once published.

This only works for you and your team while signed in; visitors and search engines still can't see a post until you publish it. It's a quick way to proofread and check formatting before it goes live.

A handful of smaller improvements this month:

• Your podcast's hero image now fills the full width of the screen on mobile.
• Episode logo icons spread out to use the full width of their row.
• Pagination controls (the page number links at the bottom of long lists) are easier to use on smaller screens.
• General styling refinements across dashboard forms, cards, and navigation for a more consistent look in both light and dark mode.

Everything in your Podpage is now just a few keystrokes away. A new search sits at the top of your dashboard navigation — open it and start typing to find episodes, videos, guests, pages, features, and settings from one place.

Search takes you straight to the screen or editor you need instead of clicking through menus. On desktop, press Cmd/Ctrl + K to open it from anywhere in your dashboard.

When you notify a guest that their episode is live, the email now includes a link to any blog post you've written about that episode, alongside the episode and podcast player links. It's an easy extra way for guests to see and share the full writeup, not just the audio.

If you use Podpage's automatic blog post writer, you can now teach it how you want your posts written. Open your assistant settings and add custom instructions — style notes, topics to avoid, formatting preferences, or facts it should always get right — and every post it generates from your episodes will follow them.

Your instructions are saved with your podcast, so you only need to set them once.

You can now add a second step to your Podpage login. Open the account menu in your dashboard and choose Two-Factor Authentication, then scan the code with an authenticator app like Google Authenticator, 1Password or Authy.

Once it's on, you'll enter a six-digit code from the app when you log in. Save the recovery codes Podpage gives you — each one gets you in once if you ever lose your phone. It's optional, and nothing changes until you turn it on.

A round of polish to how you get around the dashboard:

• Tabs scroll horizontally, so every tab stays on one tidy row
• Expanded menus are easier to read, with better contrast and spacing
• A visual cue shows when there are more tabs to scroll to

Small changes, but they add up if you're in the dashboard every day.

The listening-platform buttons on your site now behave the same way wherever they show up — home page, episode pages, the sidebar, mobile. Your featured platforms lead, and everything else lives in a new All Players menu instead of crowding the page, so the layout stays clean no matter how many platforms you list.

Visitors browsing an episode category page can now press play right there, without clicking into each episode first.

If you organize your blog posts into categories, readers can now browse by them: categories show up in your site's navigation dropdown and above your blog list, and each category page is included in your sitemap so search engines can find it.

The email your listeners get when you publish a new episode has a fresh design: a clear headline, your show's own colors and fonts, a prominent button to the episode page, and your top two listening platforms called out up front. It looks great in dark mode too.

Nothing to turn on — every episode alert now goes out with the new look.

While we were in there, we also cleaned up notifications: the separate toggles for episode and review emails are now one Email notifications switch under Notifications, covering new episodes, reviews, voicemails, contact form messages, survey responses and guest registrations. If you'd already turned notifications off, that choice carried over — nothing changes for you.

Aurora, Casefile, Editorial, Gameday, Lounge, Neon, Retro, Swiss and Workbench are live on every plan. Each was designed for podcast sites, from bold and image-led to clean and text-first, and each carries your own colors, fonts and episode art rather than a fixed look.

Open Design → Change Site Template to preview your own episodes in each one before you switch. Switching back is one click.

Custom code used to be limited to Custom Pages. Now every page on your site — About, Episodes, Contact, and the rest — has its own Custom Code section in the page editor, so you can add page-specific styling or scripts without touching your whole site.

Available on Pro and above.

Custom pages can now go header-free. If you're building a landing page or something else that shouldn't carry your site's normal navigation, turn off the header for just that page from its page editor — the rest of your site is unaffected.

• Video episodes now play with a full control set — fullscreen, playback speed, and picture-in-picture.
• Reviews and contact form messages are checked by a smarter spam filter, and anything it flags is listed in your activity so you can review it.
• Contact form messages can be up to 5,000 characters, up from 2,000.
• Preview any current template in light or dark mode right from the template picker before you switch to it.
• If you run app monetization, Podpage now serves app-ads.txt alongside ads.txt, with more room for larger files.

Email List moved out from under Engage Listeners into its own top-level section, with Setup, Subscribers, Signup Incentives, and Episode Alerts all together under one roof. Signup incentives also got simpler: set a file or a link and Podpage figures out the rest.

Look for Email List in the main dashboard sidebar.

The Design menu went from a dozen separate pages down to a handful. Design now holds the settings most people actually change — colors, fonts, navigation, footer, cards — with Advanced Design holding everything else alongside the essentials. Promotional Popups moved in as its own section with a live preview, and Navigation and Footer each live in one place.

Change Site Template and Home Page are still one click away from the Design page, and from the quick-switcher inside the page editor.