January 2026 Changelog

Categorizing your content works the same way everywhere now, and it got a lot faster to use. Add categories straight from the list view for episodes, blog posts, and courses, or tag them while you're editing — no more digging into a separate settings screen.

If you've got a backlog of episodes that were never sorted into categories, Autopilot → Categorize Backlog will go through them for you: it reads your existing categories (or suggests keywords for new ones) and sorts your episodes automatically. Review the matches before they're applied.

Courses can now have their own categories too, so a growing course library stays as easy to browse as your episodes.

Podpage now includes a built-in cookie consent banner, so keeping your site GDPR-compliant no longer requires setting up a separate service. Turn it on and visitors from regions that require consent see a banner asking permission before anything non-essential loads — with a "cookie preferences" link in your footer so they can change their mind later.

Find it under Settings → GDPR. It's available on every plan; Cookiebot and Termly remain available as options for Pro and Elite sites that already use one of them.

Your site's navigation bar can now hold dropdown menus, not just a flat row of links. Group related pages — say, several custom pages under a single "Resources" heading — instead of listing every one across the top of your site.

Open Design → Navigation, drag a link underneath another to nest it, and it becomes a dropdown automatically. On desktop, visitors see the submenu on hover and can still click the parent link to go straight to that page; on mobile, submenus are simply expanded so nothing is hidden behind a tap. Menus can nest one level deep.

Podpage sites can now display their navigation, buttons, and other on-page text in Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, or Polish, in addition to English.

Pick a language under Settings → Language, and the public parts of your site — menus, the episode player, forms, and more — switch over automatically. Your own episode titles, descriptions, and other content stay exactly as you wrote them; this only translates the built-in Podpage interface around them.

Custom pages you've built in Podpage now live at the root of your site — yoursite.com/about-us instead of yoursite.com/p/about-us. Shorter, cleaner links are easier to share, easier to remember, and read better on business cards and social bios.

Any old /p/ link you've already shared, printed, or linked to elsewhere will keep working — it automatically forwards visitors to the new address, so nothing breaks on your end.

Internal linking — connecting your episodes, blog posts, and pages to each other around shared topics — is one of the better ways to help search engines understand your site, but it's tedious to keep up by hand. Autolink does it for you.

Set a focus key phrase on an episode, blog post, or video, and Podpage automatically links every matching mention of that phrase elsewhere on your site back to it. As you publish new content, the links update on their own — nothing to add, remove, or maintain.

Turn it on under SEO → Autolink. Available on the Elite plan.

If you use Podpage's shortlinks to track sponsor links, affiliate offers, or anything else you point listeners to, you can now group them into categories instead of scrolling one long list.

Open Shortlinks, create a category, and assign it to any link from the list or the link editor. Each link can also carry its own description now, so it's easier to remember what a shortlink is for months after you made it.