Changelog

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.