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Markdown import, callouts, and Analytics widgets

You can bring your Markdown notes over, add callouts to your posts, and show a hit counter and countries in your footer — with a little celebration when someone gives kudos. ✨ Markdown import: if your writing lives in Markdown files rather than WordPress, you can now import it too. Go to Settings → Export & import → Import and choose Markdown next to WordPress. Upload a single .md or .markdown file, or a .zip of notes exported from Bear or Mataroa. If your files have YAML front matter, Scribbles uses it for the title, date, slug, draft, category and...

Clearer Email Changes and a Calmer Explore

A clearer message when you change your email, and a calmer Explore. September 1st, 2026• 🐛 Confirm email — if you change your email and someone else has taken that address by the time you click the confirmation link, you now get a clear message instead of a dead end: “That email is already in use. Sign in, or pick a different one.” Your pending change is kept. September 11th–14th, 2026• ✨ Explore — Fresh posts on Explore now keep one busy writer from filling the list. Each person's first four posts in 48 hours show straight away, and anything...

Changelog August 28th

Small thing, to avoid confusion on Comments and (Komments) — you see? August 28, 2026• 💅 Komments API key — on Blog settings → Comments, paste the key from Komments dashboard → Settings → API. It now makes sure it's not the widget or iframe HTML, or other code. If you paste those, it says this field wants the API key. I may add support for other third-party commenting systems — at this stage I still don't want to write my own — maybe end of year.

Changelog August 16th — August 26th

A lot landed since mid-August — just couldn't get to it yet. TLDR; You can remap public URLs, pick light or dark modes for your theme. Plus the usual polish and fixes. August 16, 2026• 🐛 JSON latest-posts — GET /api/v1/posts no longer returns archived posts in the latest list. See the JSON API. August 17, 2026• ✨ Public URL maps — in the blog’s URL map settings you can change the folders for posts, pages, archives, and categories, or switch to dated permalinks. Old paths keep working, so existing links don’t break. • 🐛 GIF thumbs in the media...

Changelog August 11th — August 13th

Just a few things I wanted to tidy after last week’s Appearance work — custom themes were still showing a bunch of settings that don’t actually do anything, and photos were getting a bit squeezed. August 11, 2026• 💅 Theme Editor — your themes sit at the top now. Upload and the starter kit live further down, and once you’ve got a theme the kit tucks away. I don’t like clutter — and I try my best to reduce it. • ✨ Switching back to a built-in theme — this used to turn off your custom theme the moment you...

Changelog August 5th — August 10th

I'm back from holiday. And yeah, I had my phone on me so I could do some minimal stuff last week — was kinda cool to work in the terminal on my machine... that sat at home. So here goes! Homepage can be a real page now, Appearance gets proper header layout controls (with a live sketch), and custom domains get a bit more hand-holding when DNS is still catching up (or when blogs move away — totally cool). August 5, 2026• ✨ A page as your homepage — under Display you can set a published page as the site...

Changelog August 3rd — August 4th

A quieter stretch of polish — lightbox images behave better, captions show up where they should, and image uploads on your own domain work again when you’re signed in. August 3, 2026• ✨ Center list dates — under Display you can show homepage and archive dates as plain centered text, like on the post itself, instead of the pill buttons. Nice when the pills feel like too much chrome. • 💅 Smarter lightbox images — zoom picks a size that fits your screen (up to 3000px), shows the page image first so it feels instant, then swaps in the sharper...

Changelog July 25th — August 1st

Just a few minor things that I wanted to address since the more busy changes the other week — Explore settles a bit, custom themes catch up with the built-in ones, and categories get a proper tidy. July 24, 2026• 💅 Richer Explore gallery — the image gallery can pull from deeper discover posts, so you’ve got more photos to browse when the top of the feed is quiet. More photos please. :) • 🚀 Snappier Explore — mid-feed featured blogs and image strips load as you scroll, instead of holding up the whole page. Loads of things were happening,...

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