Your website

It is your own website, made from the episodes you already publish and hosted on your own domain. It is made for creators, so you build here instead of Squarespace or WordPress. Choose from themes and color palettes, set your logo and fonts, and Podspun assembles episode pages, all your episodes, search, and clips for you. As you publish new episodes, the site updates on its own.

No. Podspun builds the site for you from your episodes, on your own domain, and keeps it current as you publish. It is a finished website with episode pages, transcripts, clips, and search already in place, not a blank page you fill in. You pick a theme and colors and adjust what you want, and the rest is done for you.

Pages are built from blocks, and the theme settings set the palette, fonts, page width, spacing and corners across the site. You also control what stays public (whole-site password or a coming-soon state) and your own domain over Cloudflare SSL. It is your site to shape.

Squarespace and WordPress are general website builders. You start from a blank site and add every episode, transcript, and clip by hand, and there are no podcast tools in the box. Podspun is made for creators: connect your channels once and it arrives with your whole catalog, transcripts, search, and clips already in it. You keep full design control and your own domain, and the approach is a two-time Webby honoree.

You can edit any page with blocks, draft changes, and roll back revisions. Lock specific items and a sync leaves them alone, so your edits survive. You can also exclude episodes you don't want surfaced.

Yes. If your site includes more than one show, every content block has a show setting in its editor. Leave it on All shows (mixed) and the block blends both feeds: episode lists, topics, highlights, quotes, and games draw from every show on the site. Pick a specific show instead and that block sticks to it. You can mix per block, so a shared homepage and single-show sections live on the same site.

Mixed lists label each episode card with its show, the banner shows the combined episode count with a link to each show's own page, and search gets a Choose Shows picker so visitors can search everything or one show at a time.

Live Portrait reads every channel included on the site together with its published news. It finds recurring subjects, recent changes, people, time periods, moments, and topics found in more than one source.

Each finding links to the episode, social post, or article behind it. Visitors can ask questions across the connected channels. The page updates as new material is imported and analyzed.

New sites built from TikTok or Instagram include Live Portrait. To add one elsewhere, choose Live Portrait in the Podspun Dataweaver section of the website editor.

To take Live Portrait off your site, set its page's status to Inactive, Draft or Trashed. Its address then shows a page not found. To send visitors somewhere else instead, add a redirect for /portrait in Site Settings, Key Domain Setup, Redirects.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Settings, then the Live Portrait tab. Each section of the page has its own on/off switch: the most recent topic, repeated topics, the posting burst, the three doors into the archive, people mentioned, and the closing archive grid. A section switched off disappears from the page the next time it rebuilds.

Your website CMS groups pages, posts, events and Assets under Pages & Content, with Reusable Blocks last. Contact Forms is a separate sidebar item where you build your forms. AI Site Editor is its own sidebar section below Overview and above Pages & Content. Menu Layouts is directly below Pages & Content. Contact Forms follows it, above Site Settings. Key Domain Setup is at the top of Site Settings and includes hosting, domain, visibility, redirects, and Podspun Exposure. Images and Audio Cue are under Look and Feel, alongside Theme and Icons & Share Graphics. Podcasts/Episodes, Episode Overrides, Content Categories, Monthly Quiz & Most Viewed and Live Portrait are under Dynamic Auto-Content Controls. Contact settings are grouped under Contact. Private features and Trash this website are at the bottom of Site Settings. The thin strip stays visible at the top while you scroll. Its website name links to Overview. Open website is a text link, which opens the live website when available or its preview otherwise. Overview shows your website's status, how many pages and News / Blog posts it has, buttons to AI Site Editor, Pages, News / Blog and Site Settings, the site's open launch tasks, and Recently edited. Responses to your forms are in Form Submissions, under Email Campaigns in Account tools. From a website it opens on that website's responses, with a count of the unread ones beside it, and its Website menu switches to another website or to All websites. Opening a website's responses marks them as read; All websites does not. Account Activity shows responses across your websites, with unread counts and links to each response. Pages and settings stay scoped to the website you opened.

Back to Welcome returns to your account. Use Website Builder to choose another website. Account Activity compares your websites and shows traffic, conversions, and audience growth. Analytics & Insights brings together the detailed Analytics, Narrative, and the free AI Chatbot.

Yes. Add New Website (under Imports) builds a full draft as an unpublished preview you can review before paying: your episodes on the site, a theme matched to your art, real copy written from your show and website, and draft News articles. The newest 10 episodes are transcribed and searchable in the preview. The preview link works during its build window and is kept out of search engines. People you send the preview link to can subscribe and sign in as members through its Join pop-up. Forms, the store, donations and paid memberships open when you go live, and the site cannot serve on a live domain until then.

Go live (in Website Builder, at the top of the site's CMS, or at the top of Site Settings) opens Pay now at the top of Billing. It lists what you are paying for and the total. Pick monthly or yearly, add a card if none is saved, and press Pay: that one charge starts your plan and puts the site live. Yearly starts at $529.20 for the Dataweaver and its website allowance, includes 1,600 catalog items, and prices larger catalogs from their current band. Monthly starts at $49.00 with 800 items included. Turning it on transcribes and indexes the rest of your catalog and switches on transcripts and search for every episode. Everything you edited stays exactly as you left it.

Yes. In the page editor, open the version menu and choose Share a draft. It creates a review link that works for seven days without a login, so a co-host or client can see exactly what the draft looks like on the real site. They see the draft only; the live page stays as it is until you publish.

The draft preview badge appears on unpublished sites and shared draft links. Once your site is active and Public, its regular Podspun address shows the published site without that badge.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then Key Domain Setup, then Visibility. Who can see this site switches between Public and Password protected, and a Coming soon toggle hides all content behind a simple placeholder while you work. You write the heading and message for both screens, and the password can be generated and copied right there.

Your own preview link always bypasses the gate, so you can review the real site while visitors see the placeholder.

Yes. Every publish keeps the previous version. In the page editor, open the version menu to see Recent revisions and roll back to any of them, or View all revisions for the full history. A draft you have not published yet can simply be discarded.

In your site's CMS, open Menu Layouts. Header is the navigation at the top of every page, Footer is the link list at the bottom, and Social is your profile links. Links and buttons start collapsed, showing their names. Click a name to open its editing fields. Add, reorder, and nest items with drag and drop. Each link and header button has a Link Type dropdown: Page, External, Asset, Member Popup, or No Link. Choose the type, then select its destination underneath. No Link makes a dropdown heading for the items nested below it.

Yes. Open the page, open the Rich Text block, and set Show As to Box. The text then sits in a rounded panel in your theme's panel color, the same panel a Call to action block uses, in the same column as the rest of your text. Add a Button in the same block to put one button under the text, with its words and where it links. Text, the default, keeps the words on the page with no panel.

Open the image in your site's Assets (or from any image picker) and use the editor. Crop trims the image, free-form or to a fixed shape like square or 16:9, and can save the result as a new file. Focal point lets you drag a marker to the part of the image that matters, and Podspun keeps that point in view wherever the image fills a box, like a hero banner.

A picture of a person gets a focal point by itself. When you upload or import one, Podspun finds the person: on a close-up the point goes on the face, on a wider picture it goes on the whole person, and when the person is too tall to fit a crop it keeps the head in view. This is done within the hour, and usually within seconds of an upload. A picture with no person in it gets no point and is cropped from its middle. A point you set yourself is never replaced.

You can also do this without leaving what you are working on. In the Choose an asset window, the ⋯ button on a picture has Edit image, Rename, Move and Delete. On an artwork's record in Art Studio, click a picture under Images to edit it, or drag the pictures to change their order.

Yes. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab and choose a photo under Photo behind this block. A scrim (a wash over the photo) keeps the text on top readable: darken the photo for white text, or lighten it for dark text, and set the strength with the slider. The hero block's backgrounds use the same scrim control.

Yes, and any block can do it. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab. Turn on Full Bleed to stretch the block edge to edge across the whole window, past the page margins (the block needs to be full width). Turn on Fill the screen and center to make it at least one full screen tall with its content centered. Both work together, which is how a big opening section is usually built.

Open the page in the editor, open the block's Settings, and type a Section Link Name, like exclusive-drops. Use letters, numbers and hyphens. Publish the page.

Then, in a block's link field (a button or a card, on any page), choose Internal page, pick that page, and choose the section in the list that appears under it. The link opens the page and scrolls to the block, and on the same page it scrolls without reloading. Only blocks with a Section Link Name on the published page are listed.

In your site's CMS, open Menu Layouts, then Header, then the Announcement Bar tab. Turn the bar on, write a short message (a new season, a live show, a sale), and optionally add a link so people can act on it. The message shows in a band across the very top of every page until you turn it off.

To count down to a deadline, set Show a countdown to Yes and pick the date and time, in your site's time zone. The countdown follows the message, and the bar stops showing when it reaches zero. Set Show a countdown to No to hide it without losing the date you typed.

Every message sent through the forms on your website is kept in your Form Inbox, and emailed to your account's login email when the form's notification is on. In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then Contact, to change where the emails go: type an address under Send Messages To, for when someone else handles your messages, like a publicist. That address is sent one email asking it to confirm, and your messages only go there once someone opens the link in it; until then they keep going to your login email. Clearing the address sends them back to your login email straight away.

Under Public Email you can add an email to show to visitors. It appears under the forms on your website. On a film website it is also the press contact on the Press Kit when a film has no press contact of its own, and Host a screening writes to it when your website has no Contact page. Leave it empty to show no email.

Add the Promo block, in the Common section of the block picker. It puts pictures on one side (up to four, each with an optional caption like a product name and price) and your pitch on the other: a heading, a line of text, and a button. The button can point at a page on your site or an outside site like your merch store or Patreon.

Live Now is a hero for the top of the home page that shows what matters right now. Set to Automatic, it shows a live event first, then an event happening tonight, then an article marked Feature on Home, then the next upcoming event. When two candidates tie, the earlier start wins, then the title, so the choice never flickers between visits. Drafts, canceled events, and articles outside their feature window are never shown.

To promote something yourself, change Feature to an event, an article, a product, or an auction, then set Show From and Show Until for the window it should occupy and a Priority. A priority of 100 always wins; lower it to let a live event (90) or tonight's event (70) take over during the window. Headline Override and Button Label Override change the words without changing the feature. Fill in the Evergreen Headline, Text, Background, and Link so the hero has something to say on a quiet day. Events come from Content, Events Calendar, in your website's menu; the hero renders like any other hero and starts at the top of the page. Set Show Event Date Below Hero to No to hide the date strip beneath it.

In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then the Monthly Quiz & Most Viewed tile. Turning Monthly Quiz off hides every Monthly Quiz section across the site at once. The Most Viewed Post panel under the Social Explorer has its own switch there too. With several channels, Quizzes / Games' Automation Config tab also offers One Combined Quiz: one set shown site-wide, its questions drawn from every channel's current quiz. The Channels tab next to it governs only show channels (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, RSS feeds), and how each social channel plays its videos is set per channel in Dataweaver.

Yes, as an add-on. In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then Custom Code to add your own scripts and styles. It is $19.00/month per site, added to your monthly bill.

Every block on your pages carries class names that do not change, so a rule you write today keeps working. .pspun-block matches any block. .pspun-block--media matches a picture, .pspun-block--prose a piece of writing, and so on: the pattern is .pspun-block-- followed by the block's name in lower case. A Container is .pspun-container, and the blocks inside one carry their own names as well.

Write the rules in your website's Code section, under Custom CSS. They load after the theme, so they win.

Yes. In your site's CMS open Pages & Content, then News / Blog, then the Automation Config tab, and set Top of Each Article to Title on a dark band. Every article then opens with its title, breadcrumb and byline on a band in your theme's dark color, and the article's featured image overlaps the bottom of the band. Title on the page, the default, starts the article with its title in plain text.

An article whose text already shows its featured picture gets the band without the picture, so the same photo never appears twice. An article with no featured picture gets the band on its own. An article that starts with its own Hero block gets the band too: the hero's title, short description and picture move into the band, so the article has one header. A new site built with the Ledger palette starts with the dark band. Switching palettes later leaves this setting as it is.

Yes. Open the page, open its Hero block, and in the Headline section set Headline Marker to Last two words or Whole headline. A thick line in your theme's highlight color runs under those words, and follows them onto a second line if the headline wraps. Off, the default, leaves the headline plain. It works on every hero layout: full width, Image Beside Text, and a hero with no picture.

Open the page in Website Builder, select the Hero block, and open the slide. Type the credit in Photo Credit, for example "Photograph by Douglas Kirkland." It shows in small type at the bottom left corner of the picture, level with the slide arrows, and above the slide's buttons when it has any. Each slide has its own credit.

Yes. Open the page in Website Builder and select its Hero block. Set Picture Color to Half color to keep some of each slide's color, or Black and white to take it all out, and set Darken Pictures to A little, More or Most to darken each picture evenly, so white text reads over a light photo. Your uploaded pictures stay as they are; only the banner shows them this way.

Yes, on a Hero whose Single Image Layout is Image Beside Text. Open the page in Website Builder, select the Hero block, open Config and choose a picture under Photo behind this block. It fills the band behind the words, for example a paper texture in your brand color. The Scrim setting under it puts a wash over the picture so the words read: it darkens the picture for white words, or lightens it for dark words when Lighten image is ticked. Slide it to 0 for a texture that is already dark. Under Content, Picture Description is what a screen reader says for the Hero's picture, and what search engines read for it.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Menu Layouts, then Header menu, then Settings, and set Finish to Plain, with a darker top right corner over photos. The opening picture of each page then darkens gently toward its top right corner, where the menu sits, and stays clear everywhere else. Once a visitor scrolls, the header becomes the plain solid band. Default instead puts a dark gradient across the whole top of the photo, and Plain has no shade at all.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Menu Layouts, then Header menu, then Settings. Under Layout, choose Stacked: logo left, menu listed down the right side and save. On a computer the logo sits alone in the bar at the top left and the menu items are listed one under another down the right side, the first one level with the site name. Page content keeps clear of that column. Items nested under a menu item are listed under it: the section a visitor is in stays open, and the small arrow beside any other item opens it. An item set to No Link opens and closes its list when clicked and goes nowhere itself; the phone menu does the same. With On scroll set to Stays fixed at the top, the list stays in place as the page scrolls. On phones, and whenever the site uses the hamburger menu, the menu opens from the menu button as usual.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Theme, then Advanced, then Buttons & Arrows, and set Arrows to Minimal. The previous and next arrows on every carousel, including the home banner, then show as the arrow alone with no box, in the color of what they sit on (white over a photo), and come to full strength when a visitor points at them. Boxed, the default, draws them as a small box in your button style. Save the theme to apply it across the site.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Theme, then Advanced, then Images, and set Picture Viewer to Light. A picture opened full screen then sits on your page background (white on a white theme) with the caption in your text color. Dark, the default, shows it on a dark screen.

The picture in the viewer has the same corners as the pictures on your pages, set by Rounded Pictures on the same tab. An artist site starts with square corners.

Yes. In the website editor, open Footer and choose Links. Click + Add column heading, type the heading, then drag links under it (drag a row to the right to nest it). Each heading becomes a titled column of the links nested under it. Links that are not under a heading stay in a column of their own.

A footer with no headings keeps its usual layout, set by the Columns setting on the footer's Settings tab.

Yes. In the website editor, open Footer and choose Links. Under Buttons, click + Add button, type Mailing List as the Display Label, and set Type to Member Popup. The button then opens your signup pop-up, where visitors join your list. The pop-up's heading, message and which list people join are in Site Settings, Email Popup.

A footer button can also go to a page, another website, or a file. These buttons show only in the footer. To show your header buttons in the footer as well, set Repeat the header buttons in the footer to Yes on the footer's Settings tab.

Yes. In the website editor, open Footer, choose Settings, and set Use the header menu in the footer to Yes. The footer then shows the same links as your header menu, in the same order, and a dropdown becomes a titled column. You keep one menu up to date instead of two.

The list under Footer, Links is kept but not shown while this is on. Set it back to No to use that separate list again.

In a Stats block, each stat has a Count Down To field, a date and time. When it is set, a small running countdown in days, hours, minutes and seconds shows as one line under the stat's label until that moment. Then the clock goes away and the stat stays as you typed it.

The clock looks the same as the ones on auction lots and drops. Use it for a dated stat, such as a festival's opening night. Leave the field empty for a stat with no clock.

Yes. A Card grid block evens out its rows, and when the cards do not fill the last row, that short row sits centered under the others. To start it at the left instead, under the first card, open the block and set Short Last Row to At the Left. This suits a grid that reads as a list, such as links to a set of pages. Centered is the default.

Yes. In a Card grid block, link a card to an audio file (MP3, M4A, WAV) or a video file (MP4, MOV, WebM), for example one you added to your Assets. On your live site the card's button, such as Listen or Watch, then opens a pop-up over the page with the player in it, already playing. Closing the pop-up, with its close button, the Escape key or a click outside it, stops the file and leaves visitors where they were on your page. Nothing loads until they press it. When the file is one you uploaded to your Assets, a Download link sits beside the button so visitors can save it. A card that links to a page, or to a video on another site such as YouTube, opens that link as usual.

When some cards in a grid have a picture, a card without one shows your site's logo in its picture frame, so every card in the row has the same shape. To give every picture the same box, choose an Image Shape for the block.

Four blocks can show their items as one row that slides sideways, with arrows at the ends: Card grid (set Layout to Carousel), News Index (set Layout to Strip), Events (set Layout to Strip) and Video Row (set Layout to Strip). On a phone the row swipes. A row that has more than fits shows part of the next card at the right edge, so visitors can see there is more. The row opens with its first card at the left edge and only the right arrow; once a visitor moves it, it runs in a loop both ways.

Each of those blocks also has Heading Link. Pick a page there and the section's heading becomes a link to it, with an arrow after the heading, so the heading of a row of four products can open the whole shop and the heading of five events can open the full calendar.

A Card grid fills the width of its section, with its heading at the left edge. Its Width setting keeps that as Full width; Text column narrows the grid to the width of the writing on the page, for two or three cards under a paragraph.

In a Featured Spotlight, a Card grid carousel and the rows of episodes, every card picture has the same shape, so the dates and titles under the cards line up. The row picks the shape: square when every picture is square art such as podcast covers, widescreen otherwise. To choose it yourself, set the Featured Spotlight's Image Shape to Widescreen, Square, Upright or Tall. Every picture then takes that shape, cropped to fit.

A Featured Spotlight also has News Card Label: the word on the small label over a news card's picture. Left empty it says News. Type another word there, such as Read now, to change it.

Yes. Your Episodes page is built from settings, so open Site Settings, then Podcasts/Episodes, and in the Episodes page switches set Featured Episode Layout to Large. On any other page, open its Featured Spotlight block and set Layout to Large. The newest episode then shows as a wide picture with a play button beside a big title, on a band in your theme's dark color, with the next three episodes in a row underneath. When it is the first block on the page it runs up under the header, the way a hero does. Standard, the default, keeps the card with the picture beside the title and the scrolling row of recent episodes.

Yes. Open your website, then Site Settings, Podcasts/Episodes, and Episode Page Setup. The switches there apply to every episode page on the site.

• Add a “Share this episode” button: puts the button under the Brief Summary. On a phone it opens the phone's own share menu; on a computer it copies the episode's link. Off by default.
• Turn web addresses and handles into links: a web address or email in the episode description becomes a link, and a handle like @name opens that profile when the same sentence names where it is, as in “Follow her on Instagram @name”. A handle with no platform named stays as text. Off by default.
• Show the episode quotes: the quotes beside the Episode Highlights. Set it to No to show the highlights on their own. On by default.
• Show the tension chart: set it to No to take the chart off every episode page.
• Blur spoiler moments: the “Moments that hook you” labels show blurred until a visitor clicks to reveal them. Set it to No to show them plainly. On by default.

The episode description, the show notes your feed publishes, sits under the player with the heading Episode Description. A long one shows its first lines, fading out, with a Show more link that opens the rest; the whole text is in the page for search engines either way.

Beside the Episode Description and the Brief Summary, a narrower column shows the Episode details: the show, the date it was published, its length and the places it covers, then the guests and the episode's topics. Each topic opens the episodes that share it. In the Episode Highlights, pointing at a highlight shows a Watch cue next to its time, and clicking it plays the episode from that moment.

Click Save to keep your changes.

Open your website, then Site Settings, Podcasts/Episodes, and Episode Page Setup, and set Show “Guests appearing in this episode” to Yes. Each episode page then lists its guests in a small box under the Episode details, in the column beside the Episode Description: the guest's name, one sentence about who they are, and links to their profiles. It is off until you turn it on.

Podspun finds the guests in each episode's title, show notes and transcript, and checks each one against all three. A name is spelled the way the title or show notes spell it, because a transcript can misspell names. A profile link is used only when its handle or web address is written in the show notes next to that guest, and nobody is looked up on the web. The account of the guest's own business (a tour company they run, for example) shows after their own handle, separated by a comma. A sponsor's account and your own show's accounts are left out. Every handle opens that profile, and a website opens the site, in a new tab. The show's host is never listed as a guest. New episodes are read within the hour, and read again once their transcript arrives.

Anything Podspun is not sure of waits for you and stays off the page: a guest named only in the transcript, someone it cannot tell takes part (a partner or child who made the trip), or a handle that looks cut off. To check them, open Site Settings, then Episode Overrides. It lists every episode, newest first, and an episode with something to check has a Check mark beside its guests (the Status filter narrows the list to those). Open one, and on its Guests tab click a guest to open it. From there you can fix a name, the sentence about a guest or a profile, add or remove a guest, drag guests into a different order, or add someone from Untagged: Also Named in This Episode, then click Save. Tagged Guests is the list the episode page shows. Saving confirms the list: the episode page shows exactly what you saved, and Podspun does not change it unless you click Find Again. A saved list shows on every one of your websites that shows the same podcast.

Yes. Podspun writes each episode page's Brief Summary, key points, Episode Highlights, Episode Quotes and topics from the episode. To change any of them, open your website, then Site Settings, then Episode Overrides, and open the episode. Each section has its own tab beside Guests (Brief Summary, Key Points, Highlights, Quotes and Topics) with what Podspun wrote. Each row starts closed, with a short line of what it holds under its title, and opens with a click on its title. Edit the text, remove a row, drag rows into a new order, or add one, then click Save. That section becomes your version: the episode page shows it, and Podspun leaves it alone when it reads the episode again. Use Podspun's version puts a section back.

To add a quote, on the Quotes tab type a few words someone said in Find in the Transcript and click Find. Each line of the transcript with those words is listed with its time, and Add as quote or Add as highlight puts it in, playing from that moment. Your quotes are also the ones your Destinations list chooses from. The list of episodes in Episode Overrides shows which parts of each page you changed. Your changes show on every one of your websites that shows the same episode. View episode, beside Save, opens the episode's page on your website in a new tab.

Yes. Your Episodes page is built from settings, so open your website, then Site Settings, Podcasts/Episodes, and the Episodes page switches. Show the recent episodes row set to No leaves the featured episode at the top on its own. Show the destinations cards set to Yes adds the cards from your Categories block under the featured episode, with the same cards, pins and hidden cards you set on the Content Categories tile. Show the topic strips set to No takes the Browse by Topic rows off the page. Click Save to keep your changes.

Yes. Open the page, open its Monthly Quiz block, and set Style to Receipt. The quiz's name, month and intro sit beside a paper receipt. Each answer is a calculator key, a coin fills in for every right answer, and after each question the receipt prints the right answer, the point and the total so far, with the same explanation and Where it came from link as the other styles. The keys and coins use your theme's highlight color. Classic and Arcade stay available, and the questions are the same in every style.

Yes. Open the page, open its Monthly Quiz block, and with Style on Classic set Box Color. Highlight, the default, puts the quiz on your theme's highlight color. Panel puts it on your theme's soft panel color, the one your other boxes use, with your theme's own text colors. The questions and the game are the same either way.

When your Recents shows only episodes, each card shows the episode's picture at the shape it was uploaded. Most shows use their square cover for every episode, so one episode with its own wide photo comes out shorter and breaks the row. Open the page, open its Recents block, and set Picture Shape to Square or Wide. Every episode picture then sits in the same frame, cropped around its focal point, and the rows line up. As uploaded, the default, keeps each picture's own shape. When your Recents also shows social posts, every picture always keeps its own shape and this setting has no effect.

Yes. On a page in the grid layout, place the block (a form, a button, a short note) in the right-hand or left-hand columns, beside the first block it should sit next to. Open its Config tab and turn on Stay In View While Scrolling.

The block becomes a side column from its own row to the end of the page, and it stays on screen while a visitor scrolls. It stops just under your header. If your header hides while scrolling, the block moves up into that space and drops back down when the header returns. The blocks under it make room for it, so nothing has to be resized by hand. On a phone there is one column, so the block goes to the end of the page. Keep it short: a side column taller than the window scrolls inside itself.

Yes. In a Stats block, each stat has a Value choice. Besides Custom, where you type the number, it lists live figures. Instagram followers and TikTok followers come from each platform's own profile page, read once a week for every account connected to the website. Destinations covered counts every different place your episodes and posts are about, and Countries covered counts the countries among them, articles included. Substack subscribers is the figure your connected Substack shows on its About page; Substack rounds it, so it reads as at least that many (10,000+).

Followers on every social account and Substack adds those live counts, your Substack subscribers, and the accounts Podspun does not read, such as Pinterest, YouTube, Facebook, X and Threads. For those, open your website's Menu Layouts, then Social, and type the number each profile shows in the Followers box beside its link. Update a typed number when it has changed enough to matter. A connected Instagram or TikTok account is never counted twice.

A live stat needs no upkeep. When you know a better number (a host who has been to 140 countries, where the episodes cover 25), type it in Your Own Number under the stat: it shows instead of the live figure, and clearing it brings the live figure back. A stat with no number at all is left off your live site until it has one.

In a Partners block, Layout has three choices: Grid, Moving strip, which keeps one row and drifts along by itself, and Strip with arrows, which keeps one row that stays still with an arrow at each end. For either strip, set Logo Size to Large to draw each logo bigger and closer to the next one. Turn off Show labels for a row of logos with no names under them.

Yes. Open a site in Website Builder, then choose Entries and News / Blog. Each post gets its own page, an author, a publish date (set it in the future to schedule), and optional categories and tags. Each post also chooses who can read it (everyone, members, or paid subscribers). Add the News / Blog block to any page to list your latest posts automatically.

Every article has a Type. News is the standard feed; the + New Type button above the article list adds another (Press, for example), and picking a type there writes posts of that type. A News / Blog block on your site lists one type (News unless you change it in the block's settings), so a new type stays off your pages until you place a block for it.

Add the Episode Link block, in the Podspun Dataweaver: Podcasts section of the block picker. Start typing an episode title and pick it from the list: the block shows that episode's image, big, with a play badge and a "Watch the Episode" label, linked to the episode's page on your site. You can change the label in the block's settings.

Articles written from an episode (the Write From an Episode button and auto-drafts) include this block automatically, so every generated article features the episode it came from.

Open the article in the editor, go to Config, and set Feature on Home to Yes. A Live Now block set to Automatic can then promote it. Leave Feature From and Feature Until empty to feature it for as long as the switch is on, or set them to give the feature a window, after which the hero moves on by itself. A live event or tonight's event still comes first; the article shows when nothing is on the air. To force one article to the top regardless, set the Live Now block's Feature to An article I choose and pick it there.

Open the article in the editor and find Disclosure next to Publication Name and Publication Logo. Choose Partner coverage for coverage that ran under a media partnership, or Sponsored for paid placement. The label shows beside the date on the article's card in every news listing and in the byline at the top of the article. None (the default) shows nothing.

In an Offer Grid block, each offer has Starts and Ends fields (a date and time), plus Sponsor or Operator, Eligibility, and an Official Rules link. Once an offer's Ends time has passed it shows Ended in place of its entry button, so nobody can enter a finished giveaway. By default an ended offer also drops off the page. Turn on Show Ended Offers on the block to keep past offers listed with the Ended label.

Keep one Offer Grid block for a promotion and reuse it on Home and on your Offers page, so changing the end time in one place updates every page that shows it. A third-party auction is the same thing: name the operator in Sponsor or Operator and put its close time in Ends. Dated offers show a running countdown to their opening or closing time. Leave the link empty for a sample card that cannot be entered.

For auction lots, set the block's Card Style to Auction lots. Each card then shows whether the lot is Live now, Closing soon (its last two days), Upcoming or Ended, the time bidding opens or closes in the visitor's own time zone, and a countdown on one line, such as 17d 02h 00m 49s. The auction house goes in Sponsor or Operator and the estimate, such as $800 to $1,200, in Price. Give an upcoming lot a Starts time as well as an Ends time.

Add a Video Row block and add a video for each one you want. Paste the YouTube address into Video Link (a watch link, a share link or a Short all work), and add a Title and Maker if you want words under the picture. A Facebook video or reel address works too.

Each video shows YouTube's own picture until someone clicks it, then opens in a large player in a pop-up over the page. Closing the pop-up stops the video and leaves the page where it was. Nothing loads from YouTube before that click. Choose Picture only when you want a different still than YouTube's. Facebook has no picture to borrow, so give a Facebook video a Picture; it plays in Facebook's own player, and a reel stays upright like a Short.

Layout picks Grid, which shows every video and wraps onto new rows, or Strip, one row that slides sideways with arrows. A Short stays upright and a widescreen video stays wide in both. Set Feature The First Video to Yes to show the first video large above the others, with its title beside it; the row under it holds the rest. Heading Link turns the heading into a link to a page with more videos.

Add a Directory block and add an entry for each place or thing to follow: a convention, a shop, a haunted attraction, a website, a podcast. Give each one a Name, a Kind, a Picture, a Group (Event, Place to go or Online), and a Link. City, State or Country, ZIP Code, When and Note are optional.

Each entry shows as a card with its picture, under the heading for its Group: Events, Places to go or Online. An event shows its dates, from When, under its picture. Visitors can narrow the cards with the Category dropdown (a whole group or one kind), the State dropdown, or the search box. Typing in the search box narrows the cards by name and place as they type. A ZIP code, a city and state, or a street address, followed by Enter, puts the nearest places first, each with how many miles away it is, and Distance keeps only those within that many miles. The dropdowns come from what you enter, so the first entry of a new kind adds it to Category.

Open Site Settings, then Icons & Share Graphics, and type it in Line Under The Logo. It shows under your logo in the header on every page. Leave the field empty to show no line.

The Follow link or button in your header opens your Join pop-up, where visitors sign up. For a signed-in member it reads Member and opens their members page. Every new website starts with one.

It is an ordinary entry in your header, of the Member Popup type, so you change it where you change the rest of the menu. Open your website in Website Builder, then Menu Layouts and Header. On the Links tab, look for Follow in the menu list, or under Buttons further down. Type a new Display Label to rename it, such as Join or Mailing List, drag it to move it, or press the X on its row to remove it. Then save.

To add one back, add a link or a button there and set its Type to Member Popup.

Open your website, then Content, Events Calendar. Add dates, a time zone, tags, an image and the links visitors need. Date-only events keep their calendar dates everywhere; timed events display in the visitor's time zone. A canceled event stays labeled as canceled.

Add an Events block to a page and set its Layout: event cards, a date list, a month calendar, or a strip (one sliding row of event cards, made for a home page). Layout is the layout the calendar opens in, and a new block starts as event cards. A strip's cards have Event details only, which opens the event on the page its Heading Link points to, with its details showing. In cards and strips, an event without an image shows your site's logo in its place, so every card keeps the same shape. Choose tags to make separate calendars, such as screenings and festival announcements. Set Opening Month to a month such as 2026-10 to open the calendar there, or leave it empty to start at the next event. Visitors pick a layout with the Cards, List and Calendar switch and a tag from the Display dropdown, and move month by month with the buttons named for the months before and after, in the list and cards as well as the month calendar. Every event has an Event details link under its text. It opens the event's picture, date, place, tags, whole note and its own link, with an Add to your calendar panel: Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook.com and Microsoft 365, each with its mark. Adding an event happens only in that pop-up; rows, cards and strips carry no calendar buttons. The Add Calendar button opens the same panel to subscribe to the matching calendar, with a download and the subscription link. Calendar Button changes what that button says, such as Add the 12AM Calendar. A downloaded .ics file is a one-time copy; subscriptions refresh on the calendar provider's schedule.

A calendar with the layout switch or the Display dropdown has a search box on the right. Typing narrows the events by name, place, tag or note as you type, and the matches from every month show together as a list. When events have a City or a ZIP Code, the same box takes a ZIP code or an address, with Distance as a small dropdown under it, so visitors see the nearest events first and how many miles away each one is. An event's ZIP Code is used only for that and is not shown on the site.

Turn on Countdown Clocks on an Events block to show a running countdown on each event that has not started, such as Starts in 9d 4h 12m 05s, in place of the word Upcoming. A date-only event counts to the start of its first day in the event's own time zone.

The Events block lists the event records you manage under Content, Events Calendar, in your website's menu. Under Which Events, All upcoming events (the default) shows every published event that is still ahead or on the air, soonest first, up to the number you set in How Many. Events I choose shows only the ones you pick, in the order you pick them. Only the events typed below ignores the shared records and shows the entries typed into the block itself.

Each event carries a status: Upcoming, Tonight, Today (for a date-only event), Live now, Replay, Ended, or Canceled. Tonight and Today are worked out on the visitor's own calendar day, and times are shown in the visitor's own time zone with the event's local time in brackets when they differ. The button follows the state: RSVP or tickets before the event, Watch live while it is on, Watch the replay after. An event without a replay link reads as Ended. A date-only event is never shown as live. With a film chosen, the block also lists that film's screenings from Film Studio.

Use the Podspun Dataweaver blocks in the website builder. Social Feed shows the latest posts from one account as a strip or grid. Social Explorer shows the whole catalog, posts and any episodes, with Ask & Search, clusters, topics, filters, and sorting.

Live Portrait reads every channel included on the site together with its published news. It shows recurring subjects, recent changes, people, time periods, and topics found in more than one source. Each finding links to the episode, post, or article behind it.

Social tiles open the post on the current page, playing from Podspun's own archive, with a link to TikTok or Instagram for liking and commenting. Nothing is embedded from the platforms.

Each post carries the date TikTok or Instagram gives it, and that is the date your website sorts by when it lists your newest posts. One exception: a reel you uploaded earlier and only put on your profile grid later. Instagram still dates it by the upload, so when the daily import finds a post for the first time that was uploaded more than a week earlier, it dates it by the day it reached your profile. It then shows among your newest posts, where your profile shows it. Your first import, and channels set to import only some posts, keep the platform's dates.

When you have both a TikTok and an Instagram channel, a clip you put on both is shown once. Two posts count as the same clip when their captions match (hashtags, mentions and links aside), or when the video runs the same length, went up on both within a few days, and the two captions share their main words. The first upload is the one shown, unless the other copy is a reel that just reached your profile; then that one is shown. The other copy is set aside, not deleted.

Add the Related Social Posts block to the page or post (it is in the Social section of Add a block). In the block's settings there are three ways to fill it. Search Posts searches your captions; with the box empty it lists your newest posts. Scan This Page has the AI read the page's title and text, including edits you have not saved yet, and suggest your posts about the same places. Describe What To Find takes one sentence in your own words, like "posts from the Path of the Gods hike", and suggests posts for it.

The AI only suggests. Each suggestion shows why it matched, and you choose Add or Skip for each one (or Add all). Drag the chosen posts into the order you want. On the page they show as a strip or a grid, and each tile opens the post in place, the same way the Social Feed does. A post you later hide or delete drops out on its own.

Yes. Every post's cover is read when it is imported, and the posts page offers an "In the picture" filter built from what was found: with people, posed for camera, landscapes, cities, food, animals, indoors, memes and screenshots, and posters and graphics.

A filter only appears once at least three posts match it, so a visitor never presses one and finds nothing. Nothing needs setting up: covers are read automatically as posts arrive.

Categories sorts your episodes and posts into cards by what your show is about. A travel show gets Destinations (one card per country or city), a true-crime show gets its cases, a cooking show its dishes, an interview show its guests. Each card names the thing, a small line over it says what group it belongs to (a region, a decade, a cuisine), and it shows how many episodes and posts it has and its newest episode's picture. A card with two or more episodes opens its own page; a card with one goes straight to that episode or post.

Podspun reads each episode's title and description, and each post's caption, and sorts it. A passing mention does not count, and neither does a trailer that lists things from other episodes. When your site is made, Podspun names three ways to sort it and sorts every episode into all three; you pick the one to show in Site Settings, on the Content Categories tile, and can switch at any time. Use Categories, at the top of that tile, turns the whole feature on or off for the site.

Each card is a stack of up to three of its pictures with the name and count under it, the same look as on the Live Portrait, in the Social Explorer and under Other on a card page. Every new site has the block on its home page and the same cards as a section of its Live Portrait; any site can add it with Add block. It stays hidden on your live site until there are three cards, and while Use Categories is off; the editor says which. Under the first few cards, an Explore all button opens your explorer page, where every card is listed.

Yes. Open the page in the page editor, open its Categories block and set Style to List with episodes and quotes. The block then shows every place that has an episode, in the same order as your cards. Each place shows its name and counts at the top. Under them, on the left, is its episode (or episodes) as a short row with a picture, title and date that opens the episode page, and one quote from the episode with a Hear it at link to the moment it was said. On the right, under More about and the place's name, are your other articles and posts about the same place, a few of each, each with its picture, title and date. When there are more, a See everything about link opens the place's own page.

The quote is the first one that names the place (Morocco or Moroccan, for Morocco). If none does, it is one from a moment about the place, then the first quote of an episode whose title names the place. A line that names your show is never used. When no quote fits, the place shows without one. A place that only posts mention, with no episode, stays on the cards and in your explorer.

List suits a page of its own. A page you make at /destinations is shown at that address, instead of forwarding to your explorer page. Articles are listed when Include news articles is on in Site Settings, Content Categories. To choose the quote a place shows, open Site Settings, then Content Categories, open that place and pick one under Quote on the Destinations List: Podspun's pick, any quote from its episodes, or No quote.

One or the other, never a mix. Set it with Cards Show in Site Settings, on the Content Categories tile (it shows when your category is Destinations). Automatic (the default) shows one card per country, unless almost all of your episodes are in one country; then it shows one card per city or area inside it, such as Rome, Florence and Sicily. If you add episodes from new places later, Automatic picks again. The note under Cards Show says what it picked and why, for example "Right now: Countries. Your episodes visit 17 countries."

Choose Countries or Cities and areas to decide yourself; the block then stops switching until you choose Automatic again. Your pins, hidden cards and added cards are kept for each choice, so switching back restores them.

A region that spans several countries, such as the Caribbean, is not a card. An episode about it counts toward each country it names; if it names none, it is on no card, and you can add it to a country yourself.

Every new site gets one. When Podspun builds a site from your show, it sorts the episodes three ways (see Site Settings, Content Categories) and puts the Categories block on your home page, after the newest episodes and posts. A show about places (travel, food travel, outdoors, history told place by place) gets Destinations as its first category; every other show gets what fits it, such as cases, guests or topics. The block stays hidden on your live site until there are three cards, and the editor says so. A new site starts with Use Categories on (Site Settings, Content Categories), so it also gets its explorer page in the menu: Social Explorer at /social when the site has TikTok or Instagram, Explore at /explore when it does not.

To hide the cards everywhere, set Use Categories to No. To remove only the home page block, open the home page in the page editor and delete the block, or turn it off with its On/Off switch. Any show can add it later with Add block, and it fills itself from your episodes.

Open your website, then Site Settings and the Content Categories tile. Under the category options is the list of your cards.

• Order: cards follow the block's Sort Order: Most episodes (the biggest card first), Newest episode, or A to Z. To set the order yourself, drag any card by its handle and drop it where you want it. That card, and the cards above it, become your order and always come first; the rest keep following the Sort Order. The pin button adds a card to your order or takes it out again.
• Hide (the crossed-out eye) takes a card off the page. It moves to the hidden list at the bottom and stays hidden, even when new episodes about it arrive. Show again brings it back.
• Fix an episode: click a card's arrow to see its episodes. Move to puts one on another card (or, for Destinations, any country); Remove takes it off this card. You can also search for an episode to add.
• Rename (the pencil) changes the words on a card. Merge into, inside an opened card, joins its episodes to another card when the reader spelled one thing two ways. Both are for named categories; Destinations uses the world's own names.
• + Add adds a card yourself: for Destinations a country (and the city or area when the cards show cities), for any other category a name and its group, then the episodes that belong on it.

Your changes are kept on the site, per category, so new episodes and later readings never undo them.

Open your website, then Site Settings and the Content Categories tile. It has six parts.

• Use Categories: Yes shows your categories in the Social Explorer, the cards on your home page and Live Portrait, and adds your explorer page to the menu if the site has none. No hides the cards. Sites made before the switch existed start on No.
• Your categories: every category, each a cluster in your Social Explorer, in the order they show there (drag a row to move it; the first is where the explorer opens). Each has Show in Social Explorer, Rename and Delete, and + Add a category adds one. Years is always the last cluster.
• Featured on home page and Live Portrait: the one category whose cards the Categories block and the Live Portrait section show, and whether the Live Portrait shows them at all.
• Include news articles: also sort your News articles into every category.
• Filters in the sidebar: which filters your Social Explorer shows, with Podspun's pick for each.
• Cards: a tab for each category with its cards: pin a card to the top and drag pinned cards into order, hide a card and Show again, open a card to move or remove an episode or add one, and add a card by hand. A named category (cases, guests, dishes) can also merge two cards and rename a card.

Click Save to keep your changes. They are kept on the site, so a later reading never undoes them.

In Site Settings, Content Categories, under Your categories. + Add a category asks for a Name, What Counts As One Card (for example "The dishes and restaurants in each post") and, if you like, Group Cards By (the small line over each card, such as Cuisine). Click Add and sort: Podspun reads every post, episode and article on your site and sorts it into the new category, only that one, so your other categories stay as they are. It takes up to an hour, and the cluster shows in your Social Explorer once it has three cards. A site can have up to six categories.

Rename changes the name everywhere the category shows. Show in Social Explorer: No takes it out of the explorer's clusters but keeps its cards, so it can still be the featured one. Delete first lists what it will change on your site, worked out for that category: its cluster leaving the Social Explorer, which category the explorer, home page and Live Portrait switch to, how many card pages stop opening, and, for a places category, the Where filter. Then it asks you to type DELETE, and removes the category and its cards from your site when you click Save; your posts and episodes stay. A deleted category goes to Recently deleted, under your categories (the last ten), and Restore brings it back as it was, with its cards, when you click Save; nothing is sorted again. A site keeps at least one category. Drag the rows to change the order of the clusters.

Under the clusters, the Social Explorer's sidebar can show five filters: Platform (where each item came from), Where (part of the world, then country), In the Picture (what Podspun sees in each photo), Topics (the topics tagged on each item, with a search box) and Date.

Podspun picks which ones fit your site from what it already read, at no cost: In the Picture when most of your photos show a place, a thing or an activity rather than only people and graphics, Where when a good share of your items are about real places, Platform when you have two or more sources, and Topics and Date always. So a travel or food account gets In the Picture, and a true-crime show, whose photos are mostly people, does not.

In Site Settings, Content Categories, Filters in the sidebar lists all five with Podspun's pick and why, and a Yes or No for each that you can change. A filter with nothing to show stays hidden either way. Sites made before this setting keep all five until you change one.

A card with two or more episodes or posts gets its own page, at an address like /explorations/mexico or /explorations/ted-bundy, whatever the category. Older addresses (/destinations/mexico, /categories/ted-bundy) forward there. It shows the card's name, its group line, how many episodes, posts and articles it has, for a country the cities or areas inside it, and then the items newest first in up to three lists: Episodes, Posts (which open in the usual post window) and, when Include news articles is on, News. Each list shows 50, then a Load more button. The breadcrumb reads Home, then your explorer page (Social Explorer or Explore), then the card. At the bottom, four more cards and a link back to the explorer.

A card with a single episode has no page: it goes straight to that episode. These pages exist only while your site has a Categories block.

These pages are lists of posts with no writing of their own, so they are left out of your sitemap and ask search engines not to show them in results. Visitors still reach them from the cards, and the episodes, posts and articles they link to are listed as usual.

Yes. Your Social Explorer page (it was called Social) opens with its name, how many posts there are, and the Ask & Search box across the page: search the words said in the posts, or ask AI. The first section of the sidebar is Clusters: All posts, then your site's categories in the order set in Site Settings, Content Categories (the page opens on the first, Destinations on a travel site; then others such as Activities), then Years, each with how many posts or stacks it shows. A link to one post, a topic or a photo opens All posts. Changing a filter brings the list back to its top, under the header. All posts is the wall of posts. The other clusters show the same posts as stacks, one for each destination, category or year, with its three newest pictures and how many posts it holds. Under the explorer are the topics in your most recent posts and your most viewed post.

On a site that also has shows, the explorer holds the episodes too. The first cluster is then All episodes and posts, the counts read like 23 episodes · 2 posts, and the episodes list as rows (picture, date, length and title) above the wall of posts. With Include news articles on (Site Settings, Content Categories), your articles are listed too, under News. Episodes, posts and articles each show 50, then a Load more button; the list never keeps loading by itself as you scroll.

The sidebar filters (Platform, Where, In the picture, Topics and Date) apply to every cluster, so picking Italy under Where and then Years shows the years of your Italy posts. Clicking a stack narrows the wall to its posts, with a chip above the wall to clear it. A stack that has its own page (a destination such as California) shows a short preview instead, 8 posts, 3 episodes and 2 articles, with a See the California Page button beside the chip and a See all button under the preview; its page holds the rest. The filter sections start folded; click a heading to open it. A section with a pick in it opens by itself. Each filter list shows five rows and a "more" button, and Topics has its own search box.

Yes, your explorer page. On a site with TikTok or Instagram it is Social Explorer, at /social; on any other site it is Explore, at /explore, the same page over your episodes and news. It is in your menu, and the Explore all button under the Categories block and the Live Portrait section opens it.

It opens on your category's cluster: every card is a stack of its three newest pictures with how many episodes, posts or articles it holds, and the same sidebar filters apply. Destinations take turns by part of the world, the biggest place in each first, so the first rows show the range of places. Clicking a stack narrows the list to its items, and a card that has its own page gets a link to it (See the Mexico Page).

When an Explore site connects TikTok or Instagram, the page renames itself Social Explorer and moves to /social, and /explore forwards there, so no link breaks. The old /destinations and /categories addresses forward to your explorer page too.

By themselves. Every hour Podspun reads new episodes and posts (and any episode whose description changed) for every site with a Categories block, for all three of its categories at once, and the new items slot into the cards. Opening Site Settings, Content Categories starts a read right away. On a preview, only the sample episodes are read; after you turn the site on, the rest of your catalog is read over the following hours.

Switching to another of your three categories reads nothing again: every episode was sorted into all three when it came in. Only shows on a site with a Categories block are ever read, so it adds nothing for anyone else.

For Instagram and TikTok posts, three things are read. The location you tagged when you posted (TikTok also gives the address) is the strongest sign of where the post was made. Every photo in the post, including every slide of a carousel, is looked at by a vision model, which describes it, gives it tags such as beach, food, museum or sunset, and names a landmark when one is clearly in the picture (the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Pyramid). The caption is read last.

Destinations uses all three, so a post whose caption talks about one place but whose tagged location or photos show another is filed under the place in the photos. A beach on its own is never guessed to be any particular country; only your location tag or the caption can say which beach it is.

On your site, the post popup shows the post's place and what its photos show, and the social wall's In the picture filters let visitors narrow to Beaches, Museums, Sunsets and the rest. Ask & Search also reads the photos, so a question about beach sunsets finds posts whose pictures show them. On a site with a Destinations block, it reads the place each post is about as well: a question about one town leads with the posts made there, and a post that lists the town among several places comes after them. New posts are read every hour.

The standard Search page finds published pages, news, events and visible products. Results show their type and link to the matching page. Private, unlisted and draft pages stay out, and members-only article text is excluded. Sites with connected shows also keep their episode search. A custom Search page continues to use its configured blocks.

Ask & Search is the search on your website, trained on every word in every episode and post you have published. It is one box with a switch over it. Ask a question and you get an answer drawn from your own posts, with a link to each one it used. It also reads your site's News / Blog articles, the outside news stories you list there, and a Substack you connected, and answers from them too. Switch to Find a word and you land on the exact moment a phrase was said, plus the News / Blog articles and Substack posts that contain it.

Visitors narrow a search with the line under the box (Searching all channels, Change), which opens Choose channels: each channel, plus your News or Blog (named what your site calls it), which covers your own articles and your Substack posts together.

It runs on your site's Search page, at the end of your Live Portrait, and anywhere you place a Search block in the page editor. The example chips under the box are yours to set in your site's CMS under Site Settings, then the Search tile.

Search reads transcripts, so it covers the episodes and posts that have one. For an Instagram or TikTok post it also reads the caption you typed under it, the location you tagged and what its photos show. On a site that is not turned on yet, that is the newest 10 of each show, and on a site still importing it is whatever has finished. Both Ask a question and Find a word work in either case, and the Search page states how many of the total are covered so far. Turning the site on adds the rest.

When Ask a question finds nothing to answer from, the page still shows any episode whose title matches the question, marked Title match, so a visitor who asked for an episode by name or number can open it. The question still appears under Questions asked in your Analytics.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Settings, then the Search tab. Two lists live there: up to six example chips for the Find a word side, and up to three example questions for the Ask a question side. The chips change with the switch, and a visitor who clicks one runs that search or asks that question. Standard example questions follow the visitor's selected website language. Leave a list empty and the site fills it with your own most common topics, read from your real posts.

Yes. In your site's CMS open Theme, then Advanced, then Loader. That is the little animation that plays while an AI search is working. Pick Microphone (a podcast microphone that suits any show), True Crime (a fingerprint under a scan beam), Retro (an old TV tuning through static), Explorer (a compass finding its bearing), Film (a clapperboard snapping a take), or Artist (loose shapes and a brushstroke). Whichever you choose is drawn in your accent color automatically, so it always matches your theme. Each one brings its own line of text as well, so a film website reads Scanning the footage rather than Searching the episodes.

Your website starts with one already chosen for you. Three themes bring their own: Dark Cinematic the fingerprint, Retro Neon the old TV, and Voyage the compass. Otherwise it follows what your website is, so a film website starts with the clapperboard and an artist's with the Artist loader. Picking one of those themes later changes the loader with it, and you will see the new one marked in the Loader panel. Once you pick a loader yourself it is yours, and changing your theme after that leaves it alone.

An Events block that shows the layout switch or the Display dropdown has a ZIP code or address box and a Distance dropdown once at least one listing has a place. A Directory block does the same through its one search box, which also finds entries by name. A visitor types a ZIP code, a city and state such as Burbank, CA, or a street address. The list then shows the nearest places first, each with how many miles away it is. Distance keeps only what is within 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 miles. On a month calendar the dates stay in order and events farther away drop out.

Each listing is measured from its ZIP Code when it has one, otherwise from its City and State. On a Directory entry the state goes in State or Country; on an event it can follow the city, as in Burbank, CA. A place too small for the US Census list of cities and towns, such as Ulster Park, NY, needs its ZIP Code. The ZIP Code is not shown on the site.

Listings without a place, such as online shops and live streams, follow the others and drop out once a Distance is chosen. The search covers the United States. Street addresses are looked up with the US Census Bureau's address service, and nothing a visitor types is saved.

Yes. Add it as a channel in the Dataweaver: choose Add channel, pick Substack, and enter your publication's address (a name.substack.com address, the custom domain your Substack is on, or your substack.com/@name profile link). Podspun imports every post you have published there, like the episodes of a show. Subscriber-only posts are read as far as their free preview goes. It is listed with your other channels, with how many posts were imported and when. Its channel page has Check now and Remove.

Ask & Search then answers from your posts as well as your episodes, and the AI Site Editor uses them when it suggests article ideas and when it writes in your voice. Under the episode moments beside an answer, Related posts lists up to three of your posts the answer drew on, each with its picture, title, newsletter and date, opening the post on Substack. When an answer used none, that list does not show. Each website picks which Substack its AI reads in the site's Settings, Search tab.

To list the posts on a website, turn on Substack Posts in News in that site's News / Blog, Automation Config. Each post appears in News as a card with its title, date and cover picture that opens on Substack in a new tab. In the News / Blog list they sit under their own Substack filter, apart from what you wrote. Turning it off stops adding new posts and leaves the ones already listed. Every post already read is added as soon as this is turned on. On a paid plan, new posts are read once a day and appear in News as soon as that read finishes.

A podcast episode your Substack publishes that is already on your site as an episode is not listed a second time. If your Substack has sections (separate newsletters), each post is filed under its newsletter's name as a News category, and posts from your main feed under your publication's name, so visitors can read one newsletter at a time.

When you build a new site from a website that is your Substack, even on your own domain, Podspun recognizes it: it connects the Substack, lists your posts in News, and uses your Substack subscribe box for sign-ups.

Not on Substack, or starting a newsletter from scratch? You do not need it. News / Blog is Podspun's own: write a post, choose whether everyone, members or paid members can read it, and configure whether published posts are emailed to your members in News / Blog, Automation Config. The website, the newsletter and the members are then on one platform. See what News / Blog is and how members work.

Yes. In Site Settings, open the Language tab, choose your Website Language, set Localize Site to Yes, then select additional languages under Also publish in. Your main address opens in your primary language. Podspun prepares and saves the translations, then adds each ready language to the visitor's picker with its own address.

With Open in the visitor's language on, someone arriving at your site sees the version in the language their browser is set to, when your site is published in it. Choosing a language in the picker switches it and is remembered on their device, and a link to a specific language version always opens in that language. Search engines are never redirected, so every version stays in search results at its own address.

Published website text, navigation, buttons, forms, episode descriptions and search descriptions can be translated. Audio, transcripts, direct quotations and original social captions keep their original language. Visitors read saved translations, so switching languages does not start another translation job.

Automatic website translation is included at no additional charge for now.

Podspun checks published text and new imports every five minutes and translates the sections that changed. Longer updates may need more than one check to finish. Existing saved translations remain available while an update is prepared.

Open View translation progress and edit translations on the Language tab of Site Settings to see progress, update now, or correct individual translations. Your corrections stay in place. If their original text changes later, the translation is marked for review.

Choose your Website Language on the Language tab of Site Settings, then open Content, Site Assistant, Translation Cleanup. It scans editable page text and shows suggested translations into your website language. Accept the changes you want, then open each page draft to review and publish it. Accepting a cleanup suggestion does not change the live page.

Use the additional language settings when you want visitors to choose another language for the site.

Whichever one you choose. Open Settings in your website editor and pick your Time Zone under the tagline; it starts on Pacific. Every date on your site is written in that zone: article dates, episode dates, the dates on cards and highlights, and the dates in this editor's lists.

It matters most for scheduling. Set an article to publish at 5pm and it goes live at 5pm in your zone, and the date readers see is the date it was your evening, not the next morning somewhere else.

That is the goal. Podspun builds your episode pages with clean structure and the structured data that search engines and AI answer engines read, so your show can rank in Google and get quoted by tools like ChatGPT and AI Overviews. Because every word is transcribed and indexed, there is real, searchable text on every page for them to pull from.

In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then the SEO tile. Under GEO / AEO / AI answer engines, these settings describe who the website is about. Search engines and AI tools read them from your home page. They are not shown on your pages.

• What this website represents: a person, a business or organization, or a podcast or show. The name given to search engines is the Site name from Site Settings, General. The site title you wrote for search results is never used as the name.
• Known for: the few subjects you want to be the quoted source on.
• Job title: what you do, in a few words, like Fine artist. It appears when the website represents a person.
• Based in: the city or area you work from, written the way you would say it, like Los Angeles, California. It is used for questions that name a place.
• Also known as: up to four other names people use for you or the website, like a brand name or a social media handle.

Job title, Based in and Also known as are optional. Nothing is published for one that is left empty.

Open the page in your site's CMS, go to the SEO tab, and set What This Page Describes to A service you offer. Then publish the page.

The page then tells search engines and AI tools that it describes a service and that you provide it. The service is named by the page title, and the page's Custom SEO Description is used as its description. Who provides it comes from Site Settings, SEO / GEO, under GEO / AEO / AI answer engines. Nothing changes on the page itself.

Use it for a page about one thing people can hire you for, like Hotel Photography. Leave pages such as About or Contact as A regular page. News posts do not have this setting.

You pick which surfaces you use: podspun.com, your own domain, the Data API, or any mix. Your custom site runs on your domain with its own canonical setup, so it stands on its own. If you only want your own site indexed, you don't have to surface the same pages on podspun.com.

Yes, automatically. Every Podspun site publishes two standard files that AI assistants and answer engines read: llms.txt, a plain guide to your shows, pages, and latest episodes, and agents.json, a machine-readable summary that points them to your full catalog and on-site search. There is nothing to set up; both stay current as you publish.

To see them, open your site's CMS, then Site Settings and the SEO / GEO tile. Site files, at the top, links to sitemap.xml and robots.txt, and to llms.txt and agents.json while Publish a guide for AI tools is on. Before a site is live and public, robots.txt asks every search engine and AI tool to stay out, sitemap.xml is empty, and the two guide files are not published yet. Setting Publish a guide for AI tools to No takes both guide files down.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then Integrations, and paste your Google Analytics measurement ID (it looks like G-XXXXXXX). Turn on the cookie consent banner in the same place and Analytics only loads after a visitor clicks Accept, so the setup stays compliant out of the box.

The banner has two buttons, Accept and Decline, and it remembers the choice for a year so it does not nag on every visit. Decline means Analytics never loads. A Cookie Preferences link is added to the footer so a visitor can change their mind later, which reopens the banner. Your podcast video embeds already use YouTube's no-cookie player, and Podspun's own visitor insights are cookieless, so Analytics is the only thing the banner needs to gate.

No. When you link a word to one of your own pages, pick the page from the list rather than typing an address. The link remembers the page itself, so renaming that page later moves every link with it.

To make one, select the words and choose Link. To change or remove one you already made, right-click it: the menu shows where it currently goes, and offers changing it, removing the link while keeping the words, or opening it in a new tab. Links to other people's sites open in a new tab on their own, so you never have to think about it.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Site Settings, then Key Domain Setup, then Redirects. Add the old address (the part after your domain, like /about-the-show) and pick where it should send people. Anyone who visits the old address lands on the page you chose instead of a "page not found" screen. Useful when a page moves, or when this site replaces an older website whose links are still out there.

Each redirect has a Type of move. Permanent (the default) tells search engines the page moved for good and hands its ranking to the new one, which is what you want almost every time. Temporary is for a short detour: it sends visitors along but keeps the old address in search results, so use it only when the old page is coming back.

To move a whole section at once, end the old address with a star, like /old-blog/*, which catches that address and everything under it. End the destination with a star too (like /blog/*) to keep the rest of each address, so /old-blog/2020/my-post lands on /blog/2020/my-post.

When visitors have reached addresses on your site that do not exist, the page lists them under Addresses That Showed "Page Not Found", with how many visits each had in the last 30 days. These are often links to an older website. Press Add redirect beside one to start a redirect for it, pick where it sends people, and save.

The same page has With or Without www: Remove www, Add www, or Leave as entered. Both versions of your address work, and this picks which one visitors end up on.

When Podspun reads your existing website for a migration, it also reads the links on it. A YouTube channel, an Apple Podcasts show, a TikTok profile, or an Instagram profile the site links to is opened the same way a pasted channel is and added to the plan already ticked, as a chip at the top of the plan page. Each one says "found on your site", and the site is built with it.

To take one off the site, open the site in Website Builder, then Site Settings, and turn it off under Podcasts/Episodes (or Social, for TikTok and Instagram).

A plan you analyzed but did not approve can be looked at by the Podspun team. When they fix something in it (a page that came across wrong, a theme, a missing channel), they leave a note on the plan and email you. The note appears at the top of the plan on Imports Ready and as a To-do on your Dashboard.

Open the plan, click Preview draft of website to see the draft site as it stands now, then Approve and start migration when it looks right. Nothing is charged until you turn the site on.

Yes. Connect your Instagram account and Podspun builds a website on your own domain from it: a page for every post, search across your captions and spoken words, AI answers from your posts and reels, and a full website builder around them. New posts and reels join the site on their own.

Every public post on the account, with its caption and media. The audio of your videos is transcribed and the captions are indexed, so the words are searchable, and the recurring subjects and people are grouped so visitors can browse by topic.

No. A link-in-bio page is one page of buttons. Podspun builds a full website on your own domain: a page for every post and reel, search, AI answers, and everything a website builder does, and you can put that website's address in your bio.

Yes. Once the account is connected, each new post is imported, indexed, and given its own page automatically. You post the way you already do and the site stays current.

Yes. Your account can connect a podcast (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or RSS), Instagram, and TikTok together. They share one catalog and one website, with episodes and posts side by side and one search across all of it.

Yearly billing is $529.20 for the Dataweaver and 1 website, with 1,600 catalog items included. Each additional 100-item yearly band costs $16.20 for a full year and is prorated through renewal when added mid-term. Monthly billing is $49 with 800 items included. Setup and preview are free, with no card required. You pay only when you go live.

Podspun translates published website text into the additional languages you select and saves the results. Visitors use the language picker to read the saved version. New or changed published text is translated again, while unchanged text keeps its existing translation.

Yes. Set Italian as your main website language and select English as an additional language. The site opens in Italian, with Italian standard labels. Visitors can choose English from the language picker.

No. Visitors read saved translations. Translation work happens when you enable a language or publish new or changed text.

No. Website translation covers website text. Your audio, transcripts, and original social captions remain in their source language.

Language Cleanup checks for website text that does not match the main language and suggests corrections. You review the suggestions before accepting changes.

Automatic website translation is included at no additional charge for now. Check the plans page for current website pricing.

Yes. Choose the site's main language and the additional languages you want to offer. Podspun translates the website text, saves the translations, and updates them when published text changes. Visitors choose from the languages you enable. Original audio, transcripts, and social captions keep their source language.

It is a tool that turns your podcast into a website. Podspun does it from the episodes you already publish: connect your channels and it builds a site with a page for every episode and post, transcripts, clips, and search, on your own domain.

Squarespace and WordPress are general website builders. You start from a blank site and add every episode, transcript, and clip by hand, and there are no podcast tools in the box. Podspun is made for podcasters and creators: connect your channels once and it arrives with your whole catalog, transcripts, search, and clips already in it. You keep full design control and your own domain, and the approach is a two-time Webby honoree.

No. Podspun builds the site from your catalog and gives you finished themes to start from. You edit right on the page, click text and type, or hand the change to the Visual AI Editor. There is no blank page.

Yes. The built-in Visual AI Editor changes your page when you ask in plain words: shorten an intro, add a questions and answers section, give a section a dark background. It works on a draft, every change is checked against your site's design, and nothing goes live until you press publish.

Yes. Your site runs on your own custom domain, and the domain connection is included in the website price. You can also run more than one site, each on its own domain, from the same catalog.

Yes. Once your channels are connected, each new episode and post is imported, indexed, and given its own page automatically. You publish the way you already do and the site stays current.

Yearly billing is $529.20 for the Dataweaver and 1 website, with 1,600 catalog items included. Each additional 100-item yearly band costs $16.20 for a full year and is prorated through renewal when added mid-term. Monthly billing is $49 with 800 items included. Setup and preview are free, with no card required. You pay only when you go live.

Yes. Setup and preview are free, with no card required. You pay only when you go live.

Yes. Connect any custom domain to your Podspun site, and the connection is included in the website price. You can bring a domain you already own or point a new one.

Hosting is included. The website price covers hosting, the security certificate, and the custom domain, so there is no separate hosting bill.

Yes. You can run several sites from one account, each on its own domain, all drawing from the same catalog. Each extra site is its own monthly line.

No. Podspun provisions and renews the SSL certificate for you, so your site is secure without any setup.

Yearly billing is $529.20 for the Dataweaver and 1 website, with 1,600 catalog items included. Monthly billing is $49 with 800 items included. Hosting and the custom domain are included with the website.

Yes. Point an existing domain at your Podspun site by adding one DNS record. Your episodes and pages stay intact.

A tool that turns your social accounts into a website. Podspun does it from what you already publish: connect Instagram, TikTok, and your podcast and it builds a site with a page for every post and episode, search, AI answers, and a full website builder around them, on your own domain.

Instagram and TikTok accounts, plus a podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or RSS. Connect one or all of them; they share one catalog and one website.

No. A link-in-bio page is one page of buttons. Podspun builds a full website on your own domain: a page for every post, search, AI answers, and everything a website builder does, and you can put that website's address in your bio.

Yes. Once an account is connected, each new post, video, or episode is imported, indexed, and given its own page automatically.

Yearly billing is $529.20 for the Dataweaver and 1 website, with 1,600 catalog items included across every connected account. Each additional 100-item yearly band costs $16.20 for a full year and is prorated through renewal when added mid-term. Monthly billing is $49 with 800 items included. Setup and preview are free, with no card required. You pay only when you go live.

Yes. Connect your TikTok account and Podspun builds a website on your own domain from it: a page for every video, search across your captions and spoken words, AI answers from your videos, and a full website builder around them. New videos join the site on their own.

Every public video on the account, with its caption and media. The audio of your videos is transcribed and the captions are indexed, so the words are searchable, and the recurring subjects and people are grouped so visitors can browse by topic.

No. A link-in-bio page is one page of buttons. Podspun builds a full website on your own domain: a page for every video, search, AI answers, and everything a website builder does, and you can put that website's address in your bio.

Yes. Once the account is connected, each new video is imported, indexed, and given its own page automatically. You post the way you already do and the site stays current.

Yes. Your account can connect a podcast (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or RSS), Instagram, and TikTok together. They share one catalog and one website, with episodes and posts side by side and one search across all of it.