A couple small improvements to Pika happened recently! Some customers pointed out that it was odd they could embed a Letterbird form on a site page with a page variable, but they couldn’t do the same thing on a blog post. We agree! Now you can embed a Letterbird form right on a blog post. Maybe at the bottom of the post would be good? Yes, that...

Your Pika blog comes with an RSS feed that allows others to subscribe to your blog via a feed reader. We try to keep these feeds working well for all of the services out there, but from time to time there are hiccups. Recently we fixed a couple of those for you. The first fix was to make sure images in your blog posts are displayed on all of the...

Over the months since Pika launched we’ve had a number of requests to allow Pika site verification on Mastodon. We’re happy to say it has arrived!  The rel="me" link that this feature places on your Pika page means that the verification link you’ve included leads to another of your profiles on the internet. This is a way to verify your...

Since Pika launch day we have had requests from customers who want to add analytics (tinylytics, Google Analytics, Plausible, etc) to their Pika blogs. We struggled a bit with wanting some idealized way for people to add whatever script to their sites. We also knew that such an open-ended thing is pretty technical as well as rife with security issues....

My friend Sara runs her own website with Jekyll, a static-site generator. She’s not a programmer, but she was technically savvy enough to get Jekyll running during a weekend when she was really motivated to start a blog that looked similar to the blog of someone she admired. It was all going well until this winter when folks started adding guestbooks...

One big challenge bloggers have in trying a new blogging service is rightfully, “What happens if I no longer want to use the service?” This is in part why many of us bloggers choose to build our own sites using static-site generators like Jekyll, content management systems like Kirby, or even coding static HTML by hand. Even though these options...