2025-07-26 00:26:35
Pika has had the good fortune to attract blog authors who write in many languages. Today we’re offering a starting point for them to properly represent their Pika blogs as the language they are intended to be. In your Pika settings, you can now choose the language of your blog:
When this language is selected, here’s what will happen:
The <html> tag on your site will include a lang attribute with your chosen language (and locale if necessary)
Your RSS feeds will indicate the language of your content
The open graph tags on your site will also indicate your language and locale
While this is all behind the scenes, you should see a number of accessibility benefits. Your language selection will improve automatic translation detection by browsers, hyphenation, RSS feed reader behavior, and more. This is a starting point, and in the future we would like to offer more capabilities to override the language that is used throughout your Pika site.
The documentation for these language settings is challenging to say the least, so do let us know if you see any mistakes in our implementation.
2025-07-23 02:28:05
We recently launched the Pika newsletter in beta, and we’re so thankful to those of you who have signed up. Lots of great feedback means lots of great changes. Here’s the latest:
Added an option to override the reply-to email address on newsletter emails
Added text customization options for the newsletter subscription interface (form, messages, etc)
Improved subscription form styling
Stopped showing unverified subscribers in the Newsletter tab
Started expiring newsletter verification links after 7 days
Added an option to not automatically include newsletter forms on your site
Added a Pika variable so you can place a newsletter subscription form on any post or page
Fixed an issue with some word-spacing compression in the newsletter text
Cleaned up the email itself, including improving various styles and adding placeholder text for embedded iframes
We’ve done our best to keep our newsletter documentation up-to-date with these changes. Continue to let us know if you have any feedback!
2025-07-12 03:10:45
As hinted over a month ago on our socials, we’ve been working on a simple newsletter feature for Pika. It’s taken a little longer than we would have liked, in part due to vacations, in part due to “it always takes longer,” and in part due to the perils of HTML-styling for email clients. 🐶
The newsletter beta is available now (!) for anyone who would like to give it a try. Since the newsletter feature is a Pro-only feature, the beta will also require you to be a Pro to give it a try. If you’re on the fence about Pika Pro, please don’t worry about signing up for a month of Pika Pro to give the newsletter feature a try. If it turns out Pika’s not quite right for your needs, we’ll be happy to refund you.
We’ve put up a page in our help center to answer most of the questions you might have about the Pika newsletter feature, but don’t hesitate to reach out if you have more questions! And if you’d like to try the beta, let us know!
2025-07-09 02:15:15
We love to make it easy to take a multimedia link from the web and embed it into your Pika blog posts. While us internet veterans get the concept of sharing via embed code, most people online understand links and that’s about it. With Pika, we hope every person is able to write blog posts that share videos, music, and more in interesting and appealing ways.
The first of our new embed options is SoundCloud, a streaming service that has lots of music that can’t be found on, or doesn’t get surfaced by, any of the major music streaming platforms. It’s great for discovery!
And a second new embed option is Mixcloud. Mixcloud is an awesome streaming service for DJs to share their sets with the world. Here’s a great one from friend-of-Pika, DJ Deep Answer:
2025-06-17 01:02:08
We have spent a fair bit of time recently working on the upcoming email newsletter feature. In the midst of that work, background images were added to Pika themes! And a few other things got accomplished as well…
Times New Roman is now available as a font theme
GoatCounter analytics support
TelemetryDeck analytics support
Umami analytics should now also work with Umami’s EU-hosted servers
Created a Ghost import script
Fix text selection bug in the editor via an upgrade to one of our dependencies
💪 Rails upgrade 💪
2025-05-30 23:24:17
The 90’s called and demanded that Pika should make it easier to add background images to your blog. Who are we to deny The 90’s?
Simply visit Settings > Theme, select a custom color theme, and upload your tiny image. We’ll tile that image as the background of your site.
Where do you get these tile-able images? We recommend browsing this vast archive. And bonus: We’ve added Times New Roman as a font theme option, so you can really lean in.
And to help you get to really blogging like it’s The 90’s (only better), we’ve got a limited-time offer for 15% off your first year of Pika Pro. Just use coupon code PIKACITIES at checkout. Hurry, though, because the offer ends on June 13th.