What shipped in Podpage in May 2026.
If you've split your archive into a lot of categories, your navigation menu doesn't have to show every single one. Mark the categories that matter most as Featured on your Categories page, and only those appear in your nav dropdown and at the top of your episode list — the rest stay organized behind the scenes without cluttering the menu your listeners see first.
More and more listeners find shows through ChatGPT, Claude, and similar tools instead of a search bar. Every Podpage site now publishes a small manifest file that points these assistants straight to your RSS feed, sitemap, contact info, and recent episodes — plus a transcript for any episode that has one — instead of leaving them to guess at your page's HTML.
Episode pages also now tell those tools directly where to find the transcript, so an assistant summarizing your latest episode is working from the real thing.
This runs automatically on every site — there's nothing to turn on. You can see it in action under the new llms.txt tab in your dashboard.
If you run a Network account with multiple shows, your show list now shows episode count, when each show last synced, and when it was added — not just the podcast name and artwork — so you can see each show's status and your newest additions at a glance.
The network navigation is also more focused: a direct Shows link sits up top, and the menu shows only the settings that apply to a network.
Podpage lets you connect an AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others — directly to your podcast site, so it can read and, with your approval, edit your content on your behalf. That connection was previously limited to Elite. It's now available on every plan.
Look for MCP under the AI Agents section of your dashboard to get started.
Turn on Add Categories and Podpage reads each new episode the moment it imports, then places it into the categories you've already set up — the same way you'd tag it by hand, minus the work. Existing category assignments are never touched, and you can always move an episode yourself afterward.
Find it under Categories in your dashboard. Available on Elite.
If your listeners read Lithuanian, your Podpage site can now speak to them in it. Labels like "Show Notes," the podcast player picker, and other on-site text switch over when Lithuanian is selected as your site's language, translated and reviewed for natural, idiomatic phrasing rather than a literal machine translation.
Set it under Settings → Language.
Design settings picked up a round of new controls: a parallax effect for your header banner, a drop shadow behind your hero text for readability over images, softer or bolder shadows on your episode cards, a small badge showing the episode number on cards, a color overlay with a play icon when someone hovers over an episode image, decorative styles and dividers for your section titles, and subtle entrance and scroll animations for your homepage.
Every option is off or set to a plain default unless you turn it on, so nothing changes on your site until you go looking for it. Find them in Design → Customize Site, spread across the Cards, Sections, and Animations groups.