When someone lands on your Modern theme subscribe page, they get your name, your description, and a box to enter their email. That's great for people who already know they want in — but a curious first-time visitor often wants to read something before they hand over their address. Until today, getting to your most recent issue from that page meant a couple of extra clicks into the archive, and we are removing those clicks. (If so you desire.)
Now the subscribe page can include a one-click link straight to your latest issue:
- Right under the subscribe form, your most recent issue shows up as "Read the latest edition: #12 — Your subject line here", linking directly to it.
- It only appears when your archive is public. If your archive is gated or hidden, the link stays away so you're not leaking subject lines to people who shouldn't see them.
It's off by default, so nothing changes until you want it to. If you're on the Modern theme (or Arbus, which builds on it), head to your archive settings and flip on the Latest issue link option. The Classic and Lovelace themes have linked to your latest issue for a while now — this brings Modern in line, on your terms.
Want full control instead of our very boring copy? Use template tags! Your subscribe-page description can reach straight into your recent issues, so you can write whatever framing you like around them:
Try it: a description that links to your latest issues
Loading playground...newsletter.latest_public_email gives you the most recent public issue, and newsletter.recent_public_emails gives you a list you can loop and slice — both only resolve when your archive is public, so the same privacy rule applies no matter how you write it.