Changelog

There's now a public feature request board at podpage.com/feature-requests. Browse what people are asking for, vote on the ideas you want most, or add your own. You'll find it under Help → Request a Feature in your dashboard.

Anyone can read the board, but adding and voting need a Podpage account. Votes are anonymous: the board only shows how many came from each plan, such as "5 Pro, 3 Elite". Paid plans get 5 votes to spread across ideas we haven't built yet, and adding an idea uses one of them. You can take a vote back at any time, and votes come back when an idea is released.

When an idea ships, it moves to the Released list with a link to the details, and everyone who voted for it gets an email.

If your site's last navigation link is a button, it now sits at the bottom of the mobile menu, so visitors can always see and tap it, even when the menu is long. If the button has a list of options, such as podcast apps, tapping it opens a sheet from the bottom of the screen.

It applies whenever Make Last Link a Button is on in your navigation bar design settings.

Every Podpage site now uses Podpage's own audio player by default. It loads faster than a podcast host's embedded player, matches your site's colors in light and dark mode, and gives listeners resume where they left off, lock-screen and headphone controls, keyboard shortcuts, and clickable timestamps in your show notes and transcripts. On Pro, listeners can also jump between your chapters.

Prefer your podcast host's own player? Turn off Use Podpage's Audio Player under Settings → Media Player and your site will use your host's player again.

Everything about your audio player is now in one place: Settings → Media Player. Use the page to turn Podpage's built-in player on or off, add a download button for listeners, and see what the player does for your listeners: chapters, clickable timestamps, resume, and lock-screen controls.

The Podpage audio player now resumes an episode from where each listener stopped, and shows the episode artwork and play, skip and chapter controls on their phone's lock screen and headphones. On a computer, press k to play or pause, j and l to skip back or forward 15 seconds, m to mute, and [ and ] to move between chapters.

Video episodes get the same resume, lock-screen and keyboard support, plus chapter marks on the progress bar and previous and next chapter buttons.

You can also add a download button to the player, so listeners can save an episode. Turn on Show Download Button on Audio Player under Settings → Media Player.

Episodes with chapters now show them right in the audio player. A "Chapter" line above the controls shows where you are, and tapping it opens the full list so listeners can jump to any chapter. Previous and next chapter buttons sit beside the play button, and the progress bar is split at each chapter start.

Chapters come from your podcast feed's chapters file, so there is nothing to set up. Available on Pro and above.

Use Elements → Button in the text editor to insert a button in your custom pages, homepage content, blog posts, and other website content. Buttons follow your website's colors and style, with primary and secondary options.

Timestamps in your episode transcripts are now clickable on the Podpage audio player. Tap one and the episode plays from that point.

Transcripts that arrive as raw caption files (WebVTT or SRT) are also tidied into readable paragraphs, each starting with its timestamp. Available on Pro and above.

If your chapters have their own images, the player now shows the chapter's image in place of the episode artwork while that chapter plays, and the chapter list shows a small thumbnail beside it. If a chapter has a link, a Chapter link appears beside its name and opens in a new tab. Chapters that don't have a title are labeled Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and so on.

Chapter images and links come from your podcast host's chapters, so there is nothing to set up. Chapter navigation is available on Pro and above.

Dutch (Nederlands) is now available as a website language on every plan. Navigation, buttons, forms, reviews, and cookie preferences display in Dutch when you select it.

Choose Dutch under Settings → Language. Your episode titles, descriptions, and other content stay as you wrote them.

Settings → Change History lists every change made to your website: who made it, what changed, and when. You can see the old and new value for each setting, colour swatches for colour changes, and the exact lines added or removed when someone edits your custom CSS or page content. Changes made by your team, by Podpage support, and by an AI agent you've connected to Podpage all appear, each labelled.

Changed a setting by mistake? Click Undo next to the change to put the old value back. If that setting has been edited again since, Podpage leaves the newer value alone and tells you which ones it kept.

Change History keeps a year of changes, starting today, and is on every plan.

When a listener taps Play Episode on your homepage or at the top of an episode page, the episode now starts playing in the Podpage audio player as soon as the page opens, with the player scrolled into view.

This works whenever your site uses Podpage's audio player. Turn it on under Settings → Media Player. Some browsers only allow sound to start after a tap on the page itself; there, the player is ready and in view, one tap from playing.

This one came out of October's Elite Roadmap Council meeting. Thanks to the Elite members who asked for it.

When a guest registers through your guest form, Podpage records their agreement to your Podcast Guest Agreement and Release. You can now download a signed copy of each guest's release, with their name, the date and time they agreed, and the release they agreed to.

Open Guests, pick a guest, and click Download signed release. Use the Signed Release filter on your guest list to see who has signed, and your guest CSV export now includes when each guest signed.

Your guests get a link to their own signed copy in the confirmation email they receive after registering. Available on Pro and above.

We've made a round of behind-the-scenes improvements to how quickly Podpage sites load, and every site benefits automatically.

A typical page now loads about twice as fast, and the slowest page loads are around six times faster. Listeners get to your episodes sooner, and faster pages also help your site in search results.

There's nothing to turn on: these improvements are live on every plan.

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.
• Page numbers at the bottom of long lists, on your site and in your dashboard, now show more pages at once on larger screens, so listeners can jump straight to an older batch of episodes in one click. On phones they stay compact and fit on one line.
• 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.