Changelog

v1.1.0 — August 18, 2026

New Features

• ✨ The Guests page can now list every guest automatically: tag the page with the internal tag #auto-guests and anyone who has appeared on an episode shows up on their own, no need to add each guest to the page by hand. Leave the tag off to keep hand-picking, exactly as before. Learn more
• ✨ In automatic mode, each guest card on the A–Z grid now shows an episode-count badge.

Design

• 🎨 Ghost's call-to-action editor cards are now fully styled, in light and dark mode.
• 🎨 Header and signup cards with a background image keep their text readable with a soft dark overlay.
• 🎨 The browser's address-bar color now follows your light/dark scheme, including the visitor toggle.
• 🎨 Scrollbars and form controls now render dark in dark mode.
• 🎨 Error messages under forms are now readable in dark mode.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Content written on the Subscribe page now appears (it was silently skipped before).
• 🐛 The feed browsers discover for your site now points at your episodes, not the blog.
• 🐛 Links to Episodes, Blog, Subscribe, and Library now work when Ghost runs in a subfolder.
• 🐛 The browser Back button no longer breaks the video hero, transcript, or chapters.
• 🐛 The audio player's buttons, waveform, and clocks stay live after returning with Back.
• 🐛 Back and forward now return you to the spot you left on each page.
• 🐛 Membership and locked-episode buttons open the signup window directly, so they work before you've created a Subscribe page.
• 🐛 The "Popular" tier's button stays readable with any accent color.
• 🐛 The contact form no longer loses a message when no form endpoint is configured.
• 🐛 Very long words, links, and wide tables no longer get cut off on phones.
• 🐛 The mini player no longer covers the footer or sits on top of the open menu on phones.
• 🐛 YouTube Music links now show the YouTube Music logo.
• 🐛 Transcripts with unusual formatting no longer show raw timing codes in the text.

Cleanup

• 🧹 Better screen-reader support throughout: search results are announced, focus follows the play button and signup confirmations, and headings nest correctly.
• 🧹 Larger tap targets on touch screens for chips, transcript controls, and the mini player.
• 🧹 The homepage shows your site title and description until the first episode is published.
• 🧹 Hosts & Guests, footer links, and episode tabs stay reachable even if the theme's scripts fail to load.

v1.0.2 — July 7, 2026

Design

• 🎨 The audio player's play button now smoothly morphs between play and pause when you tap it, instead of snapping.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Guest photos, host portraits, and homepage hero images now stay sharp on high-resolution screens.

Cleanup

• 🧹 Episode pages and homepage sections now use proper headings and landmarks, so screen readers can navigate them correctly.

v1.0.1 — July 5, 2026

Performance

• ⚡ Episode, blog, topic, and people listings appear the moment the page loads, instead of waiting for scripts.
• ⚡ The first poster in a listing loads at high priority, so the page's main image shows sooner.
• ⚡ Phones download noticeably smaller list and poster images, cutting image weight by up to 40%.

Cleanup

• 🧹 Headings on listing pages now follow a correct order for screen readers.
• 🧹 Guest and featured-episode links no longer announce their label twice to screen readers.

v1.0.0 — July 5, 2026

First public release.

New Features

• ✨ Video and audio episodes keep playing in a floating mini-player as you scroll and move between pages.
• ✨ Episodes keep playing on the phone lock screen and notification shade, with cover art and play, skip, and drag-to-seek controls (audio and uploaded video).
• ✨ Choose which corner the mini-player docks to, or turn it off entirely, from the theme settings.
• ✨ Episodes can show a searchable transcript that follows along as you listen — click any line to jump to that moment.
• ✨ The transcript reads as natural paragraphs and can highlight each word in time with the audio, karaoke style, with a Words / Lines / Off control.
• ✨ Episodes can show a tappable chapter list, so listeners skip straight to the part they want.
• ✨ Six homepage hero layouts — latest episode, a centered statement, a split portrait, a newsletter signup, and a cinematic trailer in framed or full-width styles.
• ✨ Guest and host profiles built from your authors, with a searchable A–Z guest directory.
• ✨ "Listen everywhere" links for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, RSS and more, shown on episodes and the subscribe page.
• ✨ Full membership support — newsletter signups, a tiered subscribe page, and a contact form.
• ✨ Publish written blog posts alongside your episodes — tag any post with the internal tag #blog and it becomes a clean, reader-focused article with a simple author byline and reading time.
• ✨ Blog posts get their own index at /blog/ and a matching /blog/rss/ feed, kept separate from your podcast feed, with a "From the blog" section on the homepage that stays hidden until you publish one.
• ✨ Topic and people pages blend episodes and blog posts, each clearly labelled so readers can tell an article from an episode.
• ✨ A private Reader Library at /library/ — visitors bookmark episodes and resume where they left off, saved in their own browser with no account.
• ✨ The Episodes, Blog, and Library pages take their heading, sub-heading, and SEO metadata from a Ghost page you control, so each listing gets a proper browser title and social share card.
• ✨ Set your own heading and body fonts from the Ghost dashboard, with no code.
• ✨ A built-in light and dark mode, with a header toggle and automatic system-preference detection.
• ✨ Navigation menus can have dropdowns — start a menu item's label with a dash (-) to nest it under the item above it.
• ✨ Menu links that point to another website open in a new tab and show a small outbound arrow.
• ✨ Show the main menu as centered inline links, or tuck it behind a hamburger button — and in inline mode, links that don't fit fold into a tidy "More" dropdown instead of crowding the header.

Design

• 🎨 A studio-minimal editorial design tuned for both light and dark reading, with a serif display face and the dashboard accent woven throughout.
• 🎨 In inline mode the header menu stays centered on the page, lined up with the content below it.
• 🎨 Your "Listen on" podcast links (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, RSS and more) appear in the footer, beside your social icons.
• 🎨 The topic filter shows every topic in one swipeable row (with arrows on desktop), instead of wrapping onto several lines and showing only your busiest few.