Filter Guestbook Signings - Building Pika Out Loud Are you using Pika’s Guestbook feature? Isn’t it great?! Go sign our guestbook, we’ll wait… Today we’re adding a few bits of functionality to make managing your guestbook signings a...

A small update to our Guestbook feature, but a reminder that all Pika blogs come with a Guestbook!

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Help Center - Pika Answers to frequently asked questions about Pika.

Hi, Pika fam. Did you know that there is a shortcut to edit a blog post directly while browsing your page? See, neither did I. Barry and Matthew from @goodenough.us were kind enough to show me the section in the help center. And now I can show it to you. How great is that?
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Custom Navigation Page Labels - Building Pika Out Loud In Pika when you add a page to your site’s navigation, we use the page’s title as the label in the navigation. Pretty simple, but sometimes that’s not what you...

New in Pika: Customize the words in your site navigation

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Album Search in Album Whale - Good Enough Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make beautiful lists of albums to share with your friends, the world, or...

An update to Album Whale?! Yes, a big one: now you can search for an album right from Album Whale!

🔍 💿 🎉

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This isn't hotlinking. Our understanding of hotlinking is displaying an image on your site that is hosted at a different domain.

This is creating a link that is loaded when you click a photo that you uploaded to your blog.

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Post/Page Settings - Building Pika Out Loud This is just a quick update! All the meta settings you could edit for a post or page (like publish date or custom css) were previously found in a •••...

Just a quick UX update today: pika.pika.page/posts/postpa...

🆕 ➕ 😀 ✨ - Building Pika Out Loud Emojis. Emojis! EMOJIS!! Almost everyone likes to throw an emoji into their writing. Admittedly, blog posting isn’t texting when it comes to emoji-per-character ratio, but emojis still have a…

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Link Images to the Internet - Building Pika Out Loud Today in Pika we’re excited to announce that we finally support a feature that has been part of the web since the early 90’s: the ability to link an image to another url on the internet! When you add ...

New in Pika: Something that's been part of the web since the early 90's: linking an image! 🌅

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Table of Contents - Building Pika Out Loud A New Pika Variable Pika now supports a new Pika Variable: Simply add this to your post or page (not as inline code like we did here) and it should render exactly what you expect. Why Table of Content...

Perhaps not useful for all Pika Peeps, but for those that need it, you can now generate a table of contents in your posts and pages.

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Custom CSS for Posts and Pages - Building Pika Out Loud While our design philosophy for Pika is that you should be writing, not fiddling, we know the siren song of tinkering can be rather strong (yes, we hear it too). Maybe you have a creative idea for a s...

You're going to want to click through to see this post in a browser: pika.pika.page/posts/custom...

Newsletter: Beta No More! - Building Pika Out Loud The Pika newsletter beta has run for over six months and we’re ready to remove that beta flag. In those six months we’ve made all sorts of improvements based on your feedback (thank you!), our…

Pika newsletters are no longer in beta, and they're fantastic! pika.pika.page/posts/newsle...

Welcome back!

Expert Mode with Pika Variables - Building Pika Out Loud Behind the scenes, our Pika variable processing got a much needed overhaul recently and now it is simpler to add features to this power-user Pika option. Let’s highlight how you can use Pika…

Pika variables allow you to dynamically render content on your posts and pages. Here are a few Pro Tips™ for using them: pika.pika.page/posts/expert...

Giv os en chance!!

Thanks for blogging with Pika. Excited to have you!

Dashboard Search - Building Pika Out Loud Here’s a scenario: You’re pretty sure you blogged about [enter thing here] on Pika, but you can’t remember when, or what you titled the post… 🤔 Now you can simply...

Finally in Pika: 🕵️‍♀️ Dashboard Search!

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Noticed the same thing for a post on Pika's blog! Perhaps too clever, but we only offer that option within the first 7 days of a post being published. Our stance on this limitation is not unmovable, though… 🤔

Behind the Curtain: Quality & Stability - Building Pika Out Loud Since our last Behind the Curtain post, we’ve done a lot of work on Pika. Much of it you’ve likely seen on the blog, but much of it you may have no idea about…until now! Here’s a rundown of small…

Here's to all the little improvements made to Pika so far in the new year! pika.pika.page/posts/behind...

LaTeX Math - Building Pika Out Loud Yesterday we announced a refreshed editor toolbar primarily built to give us space to expand our editor’s capabilities, for features like color highlighting. Today we announce another update that work...

Yesterday we requested more rainbows in Pika posts. Today we're requesting for things to get a bit nerdier 🤓 as we announce support for LaTeX Math in Pika.

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Color Highlighting and a Refreshed Editor Toolbar - Building Pika Out Loud One of our core Pika Principles is to make Pika the best place on the Internet for writing a blog. We think we’re doing a pretty good enough job so far! But over the past year, we hit a wall: we want…

Introducing: An all-new, built-from-the-ground-up Editor Toolbar in Pika! And a special launch treat: Color Highlighting.

We're excited by this one!! Bring on the rainbows 💅 🌈 🎉

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Posts in Stream Pika Variable - Building Pika Out Loud This one feels good. We've added a new Pika variable for you to play with. If your blog is configured to use the stream of posts layout, this variable isn't quite as powerful as that built-in layout.…

At long last, it's the posts in stream Pika variable. HAPPY FRIDAY! 🥳🎉pika.pika.page/posts/posts-in-stream-pi...

Markdown and HTML Exports - Building Pika Out Loud In October we began offering self-service exports for Pika. This was a big day for Pika as it allowed anyone to get a CSV, JSON, or XML export for themselves, every day of the week if they so…

We've added Markdown and HTML export options for Pika, which include all of the images you've uploaded to your posts and pages. pika.pika.page/posts/markdo...

Previous, Next, and Recent Posts - Building Pika Out Loud By default, all of your Pika posts have a “Back to all posts” link at the bottom. On our quest to keep Pika simple but also offer some flexibility and...

New in Pika: New options to direct your readers to more of your writing at the bottom of your posts.

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Preview Posts - Building Pika Out Loud When we first built Pika, one of our design goals was to make sure your posts in the editor looked as close as possible to what they’ll look like on your Pika blog. We think we’ve mostly succeeded at ...

We think the look of your posts in the editor is pretty accurate, but it's not _exactly_ your site. So here, have a "Preview" button for your not-yet-published posts 🙂

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We moved our Guestbook and Newsletter to Pika - Good Enough If you follow Building Pika Out Loud, you would have heard that this year Good Enough is dogfooding and we spent the last few weeks finally moving over our site and this blog to Pika. Today we’re anno...

The year of the dog(fooding) continues at Good Enough. Draw us a picture at our new Guestbook!

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Spoiler Block - Building Pika Out Loud Sometimes you want to talk about THAT THING YOU JUST SAW, but you don’t want to ruin it for everyone. That’s where the new spoiler block comes in. You can...

Have you ever reeeeally wanted to write about the latest episode of some popular tv show, but didn't want to be the one that spoiled it for your readers? Just use the new spoiler block in Pika!

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Introducing Letterbird 2.0 - Good Enough At the end of 2023, we built and launched Letterbird, a stupid simple free contact form for the web. We use it for all our own products (Pika example), and...

🐦 We're excited to introduce Letterbird 2.0: custom form fields, new Flat layout, better dark mode, and more!

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Custom CSS Code Editor - Building Pika Out Loud They say it’s the year of the horse, but over here at Good Enough, it’s going to be the year of the dog(food). Did you know we have a company...

Are you a Custom CSS enjoyer on Pika? Good news: we now have a full-fledged code editor for you!
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