September 17 2026
Password-protect your website
Whether you'd like to hide your website from public view temporarily while you do some work behind the scenes, or keep it private permanently, you can now do so with the new site-wide password option.
The feature is available on the 'Settings' page in your website admin.
September 16 2026
Changelog
- Feature Added password protection for entire websites, under Site Settings. Visitors need the password for every page, and search engines are told to stay away
- Feature Added automatically generated sitemaps to V1 websites (Thanks, Jose!)
- Improvement Password cookie security improved
- Improvement Improved error handling for 404 responses
- Improvement Security updates to the website editor
- Improvement Improved reliability of autocomplete with the sign in form when using password managers
- Improvement Improved reliability of failed password rate limiting
- Fix Removed the cookie notice text from page source on sites that have the notice switched off, so search engines and scrapers no longer pick it up as a page description (Thanks, Victoria!)
- Fix Fixed issue where unhiding images in a gallery cleared the selection, making it hard to see which images had just been unhidden
- Fix Fixed issue where the "move section to another page" dialog listed some pages under the wrong Visible or Hidden heading
- Fix Fixed issues where filtering a collection by tag, or viewing breadcrumbs on some pages, could make all websites briefly unavailable
August 26 2026
Changelog
- Improvement Security updates
- Improvement Added Photo App to supported social media links (Thanks, Dom!)
- Improvement Automated traffic blocking improvements reduced 98% of bot traffic and decreased average page load speed by 85%
- Improvement Optimized image storage
- Improvement Updated image handler platform and improved derivative image creation speed
- Improvement Created improved content backup system
- Improvement Improved annual billing notifications.
- Fix Fixed formatting issue with "stack" link sections with wide margins on mobile devices (Thanks, Nick!)
- Fix Fixed issue that caused collection preview sections to still show page titles even when hidden (Thanks, Bienyl!)
- Fix Fixed issue where clicking a link in a link section's preview opened the wrong editor in the sidebar, which also scrambled pasted web addresses (Thanks, Paul!)
June 29 2026
Changelog
- Improvement Added the ability to choose how many pages a "collection preview" section displays
- Improvement Added basic support for tables inside of text sections
- Improvement Added support for H1 elements inside text sections
- Improvement Hardened image/CDN protection against malicious crawlers/bots.
- Improvement Improved protection against AI content scrapers.
- Fix Fixed issue that would sometimes prevent payment card updates from working (Thanks, Anish!)
- Fix Fixed issue that caused extra lines to be added to text sections in some cases
- Fix Fixed issue that sometimes broke phone number links (Thanks, Billy!)
May 31 2026
Changelog
- Improvement Improved device memory optimization with "takeover" galleries
- Improvement Improved lightbox styling when navigating with the keyboard
- Improvement Custom domain validation hardening
- Improvement Application server memory optimization
- Improvement Pixelfed social icon added
- Fix Fixed crash on mobile devices caused by large slideshows with lots of images (Thanks, Mark!)
- Fix Fixed issue with drop down menus on the Mesa theme sometimes being covered by page content
- Fix Security updates
- Fix Fixed error error caused by the use of custom fonts
- Fix Fixed hanging requests that would sometimes happen with AWS-powered focal point detection
- Fix Fixed issue that could cause page freezes when making changes to sections
March 17 2026
Changelog
- Improvement Automatic linking to WYSIWYG text editor.
- Improvement Improved H1 SEO schema (Thanks, Matty!)
- Improvement Improved memory management on mobile devices, to avoid page crashes when viewing large slideshows.
- Improvement Added wildcard support to redirects.
- Improvement Removed pages set to "noindex" from the sites' sitemap.
February 13 2026
Changelog
- Improvement WeChat social network icon link support
- Improvement Added ability to add analytics snippets to contact forms (Thanks, Jordan!)
- Improvement Improved custom font delivery (Thanks, Charles!)
- Improvement Added Swedish translation to contact forms (Thanks, Ali!)
- Improvement Updated cookies notice to meet full GDPR compliance (Thanks, Ali!)
December 24 2025
Changelog
- Improvement Improved signup and login processes to better-protect against automated/agent actions.
- Improvement Improved phishing protection.
- Improvement Streamlined anti-bot checking on signin page.
- Improvement Improved automated content moderation.
- Fix Fixed issue that would prevent admin sidebar from showing on page refresh.
- Fix Fixed issue causing signin errors in some cases.
- Fix Fixed issue that prevented logos from being resized in the 'Mesa' theme in some cases.
- Fix Fixed issue that prevented text content from being saved in some cases.
July 28 2025
Changelog
- Feature Added new option that allows you to control search engine indexing of images.
- Improvement Improved data indexing scheme and decreased average load time by over 50% for large pages.
- Improvement Added HSTS support by default for custom domain names.
- Improvement Prevented issue that would sometimes cause slow image moderation or focal point detection.
- Improvement Increased free domain name expiration time from 1 to 7 days.
- Fix Fixed issue that sometimes prevented images from properly uploading in some cases.
- Fix Fixed escaped characters in some image URLs, which could have caused issues with search engine indexing of images.
June 21 2025
Changelog
- Improvement Updated image handler environment.
- Improvement Updated font-end websites' runtime environments.
- Improvement Clarified some language in the admin area to make things easier to understand (Thanks, Ben!)
- Improvement Added ability to reset free domain vouchers after they expire.
- Fix Fixed an issue that prevented new signups for the V1 platform from working.
- Fix Fixed an issue that prevented billing notifications from disappearing on V1 when issue was fixed.
- Fix Fixed a problem that caused image captions to bleed off the screen in lightboxes on mobile devices in some cases (Thanks, Brian!)
- Fix Fixed an issue that caused drop-down menus to sometimes be covered by page content (Thanks, Sydney!)
- Fix Fixed bug that caused contact forms to break pages in some cases (Thanks, Sebastian!)