August was about the first impression your site makes: a big batch of new designs and better-looking emails to your listeners. Here's the rundown.
New Features
Nine new looks for your site
We've rolled out some massively upgraded design templates — free, and available on every plan.
Every one was designed and refined specifically for podcast sites, not adapted from a generic template. Casefile and Gameday lean bold and image-forward; Editorial and Swiss are clean and text-first; Lounge is built for shows that want to lead with words over artwork.
Switch anytime from Design → Change Site Template — you get a live preview of your own episodes and colors in each one before you commit.
How to choose and switch your template →
A better-looking episode alert email
If you email subscribers when a new episode goes live, that email just got a real design pass — clearer hierarchy, a proper title, one obvious way to listen.
We also merged the scattered notification toggles into one switch — new episodes, reviews, voicemails, contact messages, and more all follow a single "Email notifications" toggle under Notifications now. If you'd already turned any of these off, that choice carried over, so nothing changes for you unless you go looking.
More on Episode Alerts →
Improvements
- Custom code on any page, not just Custom Pages. About, Episodes, Contact — every page in your Page Editor now has the same Custom Code section for your own CSS and JavaScript that Custom Pages already had.
- Hide the header on a custom page. Building something that should feel like its own landing page rather than part of your site? You can now turn off the header entirely for that one page.
- If you use blog categories: they now show up in your navigation dropdown, above your blog list, and in your sitemap, so Google and your readers can actually find them.
- Episode category pages play episodes now, instead of just listing them — one less click for anyone browsing by topic.
- Listen links are consistent everywhere now. The platforms you've marked as featured show first on every page — home, episodes, sidebar, mobile — and everything else is one tap away in a new All Players menu.
That's August. We're hard at work for more improvements for September.
