About Building Pika Out Loud

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Site Footer

1970-01-01 08:00:00

While Pika has offered the ability to set up your site navigation for a long while, many Pika folks were clamoring for a footer for their site. Clamor no longer, Pika...

Aliases

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Lately we’ve seen a lot of people moving their existing blogs to Pika from other blogging services. It’s been fun to see how folks react to a blog software that...

Image Grids

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Until today, Pika did not allow you to make an image grid via our editor. To be more precise, if you had very small images you could make a 2-column...

Mastodon Author Tags

1970-01-01 08:00:00

In a very recent development, Mastodon’s 4.3 release is rolling out support for author tags. What this will soon allow is for the author of a shared link to be...

Password-protected Pika

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Part of our mission in building Pika is to make blogging easy and accessible for anyone who would like to put their words on the internet. If you can navigate...

Pika Is People

1970-01-01 08:00:00

If you want to publish your thoughts on the web, there are a lot of places to set up shop. You can live on the social media sites, spilling your...

Link to Anywhere in Your Nav

1970-01-01 08:00:00

One of our most highly-requested features is now a reality in Pika. You can now link to any website on the internet from your Pika site’s navigation. Just as it...

Pika Variables

1970-01-01 08:00:00

In order to add a little dynamic content to your posts or pages, Pika offers a few variables. You can see what’s currently available here. You can do quite a...

Tags

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Since the beginning of Pika, we’ve kept track of every feature request people have had for our new blogging software. While we aren’t choosing what features go into Pika purely...

Saving Your Words

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Sometimes when you are typing away on a blog post, you get distracted. Maybe you started searching for a link and got lost in a Wikipedia hole. Maybe your cat...

Letterbird and “Smart Quotes”

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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,...

RSS Feed Improvements Part Duex

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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...

Verify Your Website on Mastodon

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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!  [Xnapper-2024-05-14-14.58.47.png] The rel="me" link that...

Bring Your Own Analytics

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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...

Guestbooks for Everyone

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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...

Exporting Your Pika Blog

1970-01-01 08:00:00

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...

Join WeblogPoMo 2024!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

A thing is going on in the blogosphere, and that’s Weblog Posting Month. Sorry we’re a day late in letting you know, but as they say: The best time to...

Canonical URLs

1970-01-01 08:00:00

As we’re building Pika, we’re always learning new things about publishing on the web. Having a service like Pika run your blog means you can depend on our team to...

A Sitemap for Search

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Many of you are blogging to make connections. And while the capability of search engines these days has been hamstrung by their own encouragement of the web to become an...

Pika's First 60 Days

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We’re excited to say that the first 60 days of Pika have surpassed our expectations! Now to be clear, we kept our expectations rather measured. Our hope was to find...

Changing Your Publish Date

1970-01-01 08:00:00

You can now change your published date for any new post or draft at the time of publishing. Makes sense, right? [Xnapper-2024-03-19-13.08.39.png]Up until today, to change the published date of...

RSS Feed Improvements

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Barry here. So after some time hacking with HTML parsing I finally got all of my old blog posts imported to Pika. Unfortunately, that also led to sending an RSS bomb to...

Your Pika robots.txt File

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We want to do whatever we can to make sure that your blogs do not get ingested by AI training bots. You can read more about our intentions in our prior...

Pika Blogs Do Not Train AI Tools

1970-01-01 08:00:00

You may have heard recently that Tumblr and WordPress appear to be striking deals to sell customer data to the likes of OpenAI and Midjourney. While the companies have since...

Launch Day!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

The day has arrived! Pika is launched! If you’re reading this you are likely already familiar with Pika. If you’ve stopped writing, please pop back in and give it a...