Building Pika Out Loud

We’re proud and quite fond of the default hypertext-focused design language of Pika blogs, but sometimes an icon just feels right (and it may help your readers).

Hot on the heels of our site-wide Custom Code announcement, we’re excited to share that Pika now offers Pika Pro subscribers the ability to add custom code directly into your individual posts and pages.

It’s August and summer is waning.

Pika has offered the option for custom CSS since the beginning.

Tables are finally available in Pika!

Pika offers a variety of special Pika Variables you can insert into your posts and pages that help you do things like output a list of your posts, create a table of contents, add a newsletter, search, or contact form, and more.

It’s time: The Pika Pulse is live again!

Pika’s latest round of updates includes a familiar mix: writing improvements, better support for custom sites, more translations, and plenty of under-the-hood work to keep everything running smoothly.

Pika has supported writing your blog in a non-English language for nearly a year.

Over the years, many who blog tend to move their site around to different hosts, or change their domain names.

A while back a customer asked if the Pika variable to list out blogs posts could have a year option to show posts from a specific year.

Not so long ago we added post previews to Pika.

They said it couldn’t be done.

Sometimes you want to share audio or a video, but you don’t want to upload it to some third-party service for embedding.

[Update June 23, 2026: It’s alive!]

There are many blogs that would like to live in a dual state of being mostly public, but occasionally private.

Hyperlinks are a fundamental building block of the hypertext web, and often a fundamental part of both blogging and personal websites.

We love Bandcamp and what they do for artists, fans, and the independent music scene as a whole.

Almost two months ago we shipped Dashboard Search, allowing you to easily find where you wrote about [enter thing here] right from your dashboard.

Pika’s latest collection of small updates is rather extensive!

It has been over two years since Pika launched, and we’ve been fortunate to attract hundreds of bloggers from many and varied backgrounds.

We’re happy to announce that Pika now has an API!

Are you using Pika’s Guestbook feature?

In Pika when you add a page to your site’s navigation, we use the page’s title as the label in the navigation.

This is just a quick update!