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Two new archive themes
Justin Duke
January 10, 2026
Introducing Arbus and Lovelace, two new ways to style your newsletter's web presence.
Justin Duke
January 2, 2026
Add a prominent message at the top of your archive pages.
Matias Artopoulos Kozak
November 25, 2025
A stricter CSP to make your subscribers' experience safer.
Dark mode
Justin Duke
August 25, 2025
Dark mode support for the Buttondown interface, now in beta.
Dedicated archive settings page
Steph Monette
June 26, 2025
Design settings split into separate pages for email and archive customization.
Archive click tracking
Justin Duke
May 27, 2025
Tracking clicks in archives, too
Are.na sharing
Justin Duke
May 9, 2025
Share your newsletters on Are.na
Own tracking infrastructure
Justin Duke
March 31, 2025
Our tracking infrastructure is now our own
Tumblr auto-sharing
Matias Artopoulos Kozak
March 10, 2025
Share your emails on Tumblr automatically
Pageviews by referrer
Justin Duke
February 17, 2025
New analytic pageviews by referrer
Header/footer variables
Justin Duke
January 15, 2025
Template variables in headers and footers
Cross-post to Twitter
Justin Duke
August 12, 2024
Automatically cross-post your newsletter to Twitter directly from Buttondown.
rel='me' support
Justin Duke
June 12, 2024
Add rel='me' links to your profile for identity verification on platforms like Mastodon.
Labels for RSS feeds
Justin Duke
December 6, 2023
Add labels to RSS feeds to easily identify multiple feeds in your newsletter.
Email vs web content
Justin Duke
November 21, 2023
Custom content for email vs. web
More social network integrations
Justin Duke
September 20, 2023
Auto-post and share handles for Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, and Threads.
Email page views
Justin Duke
August 14, 2023
You can now view (and sort by) page views in the Emails page!
Made-for-you share images
Ben Borgers
June 8, 2023
Auto-generated share image templates based on your newsletter name and email subject.
Automations
Justin Duke
May 16, 2023
Supercharge your newsletter with automations!
Improved RSS-to-email
Justin Duke
April 4, 2023
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
Subscribe page OG image
Justin Duke
March 29, 2023
Set an OG image for your subscribe page!
Google Tag Manager
Justin Duke
March 24, 2023
Track your web archive traffic using Google Tag Manager!
Linktree integration guide
Justin Duke
March 21, 2023
A guide to integrating Linktree with your newsletter
OG image picker
Justin Duke
January 10, 2023
It's now easier to choose the share image (or 'OG image') for an email!
Faster archive page
Justin Duke
November 2, 2022
Archive list pages now load twice as fast, plus removed the address field.
Custom canonical URLs
Justin Duke
October 31, 2022
Change the canonical URL of your emails
Email slug and metadata
Justin Duke
October 28, 2022
You can now modify the slug and metadata of emails
More useful 404 pages
Justin Duke
September 5, 2022
404 pages on hosted archives now include a call-to-action for visitors to subscribe.
Send old emails
Justin Duke
March 19, 2022
Send old emails to new subscribers
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