Changelog

The Podpage dashboard now supports light, dark, and system themes for everyone. Set it to follow your computer's setting automatically, or pick light or dark yourself.

Find the toggle in your account menu.

Automatically matching your YouTube uploads to the right episode is no longer limited to Elite — it's now included on Pro. Guest attachment and episode alerts remain Elite features.

Podpage's YouTube sync page also got easier to work with this month: it shows which video is matched to which episode side-by-side, flags videos that fall out of your playlist, and lets you reassign a match without leaving the page. "Check Now" can also run a full re-scan of your channel, including older videos.

When you start a preview from your podcast's RSS feed, a loading screen with a progress bar now appears instantly while Podpage pulls in your episodes, so you can watch your site come together.

Podpage now works with Claude, Codex, and other AI assistants that support MCP (Model Context Protocol). Once connected, you can ask your assistant to update episode details, write pages and blog posts, or change settings — your existing site and dashboard stay exactly the same.

Available on Elite. Connect from Settings → Agent MCP, sign in to approve access, and you're in control of exactly what it can touch.

Podpage can now look at your entire back catalog, propose a set of categories that actually fit your show, and file every episode into one — a job that used to mean tagging episodes by hand one at a time.

Review the suggested categories and descriptions before anything is applied, and adjust as you go. Find it under Categories → Auto-categorize. Want new episodes sorted automatically going forward? Turn on Add Categories in Autopilot.

If you run a Heartbeat community alongside your podcast, new episodes now post themselves to a channel you choose the moment they're imported — the same way Podpage already auto-posts to Discord and Slack.

Course and event syncing also picked up cover images and categories, so what you see in Podpage now matches what's in Heartbeat.

Podpage can now generate a full written transcript for every new episode automatically, with speakers identified — no need to type it up yourself or pay a transcription service. Review each transcript and make edits before it goes live, or let Podpage publish them for you automatically.

Available on Elite. Turn it on from the episode editor, where you'll also see when a transcript is ready to review.

You can now set your podcast's timezone, and every date on your site and in your dashboard — episode publish dates, blog posts, reviews — follows it.

Find it under Settings → Advanced Settings.

When a listener leaves you a voicemail, the notification email now includes a text transcript right alongside the audio — no need to find headphones to know what they said.

Existing voicemails are being transcribed in the background too, so your archive fills in automatically.

Your site's review page now has a direct button inviting listeners to leave you a review, instead of just showing the reviews you've already collected.

It's a small nudge that makes it easier for happy listeners to actually follow through.

Your dashboard now gives you an early warning about billing. If your card on file is expiring soon, you'll see a yellow banner; if a payment didn't go through, you'll see a red one. Both link straight to updating your payment method, so keeping your site running takes a click or two.

Your site's sitemap — the file that tells Google what to index — now automatically includes your videos, store, events, memberships, newsletter signup, podcast roll, and more, so every page you've built has a chance to show up in search.

Nothing to turn on — this updates automatically for every podcast site.

Podpage has partnered with the School of Podcasting, run by Dave Jackson — a Podcast Hall of Fame member with over 20 years of experience — to bring structured, step-by-step courses on launching, growing, and monetizing a podcast straight into your account.

Find it under Learn → School of Podcasting. If you're already a School of Podcasting member, your courses show up automatically; if not, you'll see how to join, including a discount for Podpage customers.

A few small improvements that add up:

• Your site's mobile menu is cleaner — the hamburger menu now slides over your page as a crisp, high-contrast overlay.
• The podcast cards in your Podpage dashboard have a roomier layout on phones.
• On the Episode Optimization panel, Elite users can now see at a glance whether guests have been emailed about an episode, and send those alerts directly from the panel.

Podpage's help center now lives at podpage.com/support — searchable, organized by category, and built to actually find the article you need instead of guessing at keywords. It replaces the old third-party help widget.

Get there from Help in the dashboard or the "Support" link in your site's footer. Answers you find there link straight back to the exact dashboard page they're describing, so you don't have to go hunting for the setting yourself.

The 404 Error Report shows the pages visitors are trying to reach on your site that don't exist — sorted by how often they're hit, with the sites sending that traffic listed underneath. Old backlinks, directory listings and years-old bookmarks all show up here.

From the report you can create a redirect on the spot — Podpage suggests where the old link probably should have gone — or mark a path as handled so it stops showing up. Find it under Power Features → 404 Error Report. Available on Elite.

The page editor now has a quick switcher at the top of the panel, so you can move straight from editing your homepage to your episode pages to a custom page without backing out to the main Design screen in between.

If you're fine-tuning several pages in one sitting, this cuts out a lot of the back-and-forth. Look for the switcher at the top of any page editor under Design.

We spent the month making your homepage appear faster after a visitor clicks a link. Icons are lighter, images are delivered at exactly the size each screen needs, your fonts appear right away, and every page ships with leaner code.

The biggest gains are on mobile, where your header image and first episode card now load first. If you've run a speed test on your site before, it's worth another look.

Autolink's dashboard now shows a single table of every episode, blog post, and page that has a focus keyphrase set, with a link to view it live and an edit icon to jump straight to it. Instead of checking each item individually, you can scan your whole site's internal linking setup at a glance.

Available on Elite under SEO → Autolink.

You can now rename any link in your site's navigation bar right from the reordering list — click the pencil icon next to a link, type the new label, and press Enter. It works for your built-in pages, custom pages, and external links alike, and your site updates as soon as you save.

Find it under Design → Navigation.