A mailing list for everyone, your logo on your site, and a phone-sized preview

Hi there,

It's been a busy three weeks. Three new things you can use today, one fix you should know about, and a list of smaller improvements.

A mailing list, for every teacher

Some of you have had this for a while as early testers. Now everyone has it. If you use Flodesk or Mailchimp, your site can collect email signups straight into your own list. We never hold the addresses; they go to your account, where they belong.

Open the account menu in your editor and choose Mailing list. It has a page of its own now, instead of being squeezed into the bottom of Site Settings.

Connect in a couple of steps. Pick Flodesk or Mailchimp, paste your API key, and press test. If you've never gone looking for an API key, there's now a Where do I find my API key? guide right under the field, with the steps for your provider. It also covers the two traps we've seen people hit: Flodesk only gives keys on paid plans, and both providers show the full key only once.
Your lists load by themselves once you're connected, so there's no refresh button to hunt for. If a key has stopped working, this is where you'll find out.
Choose where the form goes: a newsletter section on your page, a column in your footer, or both. You can rename the section right there with Section title, and change the heading, button label and thank-you message.
The preview shows what a visitor gets, and it updates as you type. It draws the form at the width a phone would, so a narrow screen never surprises you.
Your newsletter section now appears in your editor, too. Before, a section you'd switched on showed up on your live site and nowhere in the editor, so you couldn't move it. It's there now, with the same up and down arrows as every other section.

Your logo, on your site

If you have a logo or a wordmark, upload it once and it replaces your text site name everywhere your site names itself. That covers the top of every page, your retreat and workshop pages, your footer, and your links page.

Open Site Settings and press Choose logo. Once it's uploaded you'll see it right there in the panel, with Update logo over it for when it changes. (Previously the settings panel gave you a button and never showed you the logo.) SVG files work too.

Two details, both on purpose:

Your copyright line keeps your name as text. A picture in the middle of "© 2026 … All rights reserved." isn't a sentence.
On your links page, a display name wins. If you've set a different name for /links, "Sarah" rather than "Serene Yoga", we keep your choice rather than drawing over it.

Search engines are now told your site's name, logo and social profiles as well, which helps Google show the right name and picture for you.

See your site on a phone

Most of your students will meet your site on their phone. Now you can see what they see.

There's a Desktop / Phone switch in the top row of your editor and on the preview while you're setting up. Phone shows your site in a phone-sized frame, laid out exactly as a phone lays it out, not a squashed copy of the desktop page. In the editor it's a preview of what a visitor gets. Switch back to Desktop to carry on editing, and anything you hadn't saved is still there.

While you're going through setup, the preview now also scrolls to the part of your page each step is changing, so you can watch your bio land in your About section as you type it.

Messages from your contact form now reach you

This one matters, so it gets its own section.

The contact form on your site wasn't delivering messages to you. A student could fill it in and be thanked, and nothing arrived. We're sorry. It's fixed now: every message comes to your inbox, and pressing reply goes straight back to the student.

Messages go to the address in Send submissions to, in your Contact section. If you've left that empty, they go to the email you sign in with.

While we were in there, the form also got a proper Subject dropdown again (typing your own subject could make it fail), and it now refuses to send an empty message.

Finishing setup, and sharing your site

Pick up where you left off. If you left setup partway through, your editor now shows a small card saying which step you stopped at, with a Pick up where you left off button. You can dismiss it if the editor suits you better; setup is optional, and the card won't nag.
Save & Exit works. Setup's only exit button had never gone anywhere. It takes you to your editor now.
Your site's address is front and centre when you finish setup, with a one-tap copy button and a caption for an Instagram post that you can edit. The caption changes to fit what's on your site: it mentions your classes if you've added classes, and your workshops and retreats if you have those.
Setup speaks to you, not to a studio. The first step now asks for your Name, with examples written for an individual teacher.
Your links page looks right when you share it. Paste /links into a message or a post and it now shows a proper preview card with your title and image. Before, it showed nothing at all.

A truer editor header

The second row of your editor's header is meant to preview your site's own menu bar. It's no longer a copy that looks roughly similar: it is your menu bar, the same one your visitors see. It lines up with the rest of your page, sits where your real menu sits, and includes your Book Now button if you have one. Clicking a menu item scrolls your editor to that section, just as it does on your site.

The Menu & socials button moved up to the top row to make room, so the preview row holds only what a visitor sees.

Things that were quietly wrong

Events with a photo open again. Any retreat or workshop with a photo attached failed to load, both for visitors and for you in the editor. Events without photos were fine, which is why it hid for so long.
You can clear a mailing list you've picked. Choosing no list and saving used to put your old list straight back.
Your site sets no cookies on visitors. It was still handing each visitor a session cookie it never used. Your visitor counts were always cookieless; now the whole page is.
Setup's photo uploader and text editor are labelled for screen readers.

Also, under the hood

Patched every library with a published security advisory, upgraded Ruby, and set things up so a new advisory fails our checks the day it's published.
Every deploy now loads a real published site and checks it actually drew a page, and the part of the server that draws your pages restarts itself if it ever gets stuck.
Retired the last of the old editor pages from before the rebuild.
Your page's sections load with fewer database queries, however many cards you add.

Your two minutes this week

Send yourself a test message through the contact form on your site, so you can see where it arrives. Check Send submissions to in your Contact section if you'd like it somewhere else.
Use Flodesk or Mailchimp? Account menu → Mailing list, and connect it.
Press Phone in your editor's top row and look at your site the way your students do.

As always, if something looks wrong on your site specifically, message us through the support chat in the editor and we'll look at your setup.

— Jim & Michelle, the myMat team