Changelog

See which pages search engines can index, without opening them

Your page list now shows each page's indexing setting on the row itself, so you no longer have to open a page to find out. A globe next to a page means search engines can index it, and a crossed out globe means it is hidden from them. Hover either one for a short explanation. Above the list you will find three new buttons, All, Indexed and Not indexed:

• Choose Indexed or Not indexed to show only those pages, and choose All to go back to the full list.
• A count appears underneath, for example "12 pages not indexed", so you can see how much of your site is affected at a glance.
• The buttons cover every page in your brand, not only the ones currently on screen, and they work alongside the Filter pages search box.

The Indexing Switch guide explains what the setting actually changes on a page, and when it is worth turning off.

The Indexing Switch: Keeping Pages Out of Search, Finding and Searching Your Pages

Registration links can now set a visitor's age range

The Registration URL API accepts two new parameters, agemin and agemax, so a signup flow you build on your own pages can set the age range a new member wants to see, for example agemin=40&agemax=50. How it behaves:

• Sending either one fills the range and skips the age range step entirely, so the member goes straight past it.
• Send only one and the other takes a sensible default: 18 for the youngest, 80 for the oldest.
• Because the step is skipped, the values are used exactly as you send them, so check them against the range your own signup steps offer before you build the link.

The Registration URL API documentation covers the rules, the limits and what happens when you send a date of birth instead.

Developers Hub

Interests in a registration link are now separated by a semicolon

Some interest names contain a comma of their own, so the interests parameter announced yesterday now separates values with a semicolon instead: interests=Friendships;Cooking. Links written with the comma format need updating.

Developers Hub

Registration links can now carry a visitor's interests

The Registration URL API accepts a new interests parameter, so a signup flow you build on your own pages can pass a visitor's interests straight into their new profile. Send a comma separated list, for example interests=Friendships,Cooking. How it behaves:

• Each value is matched against the interests on that site's own signup steps, so the labels to use are the ones your members already see.
• Matching ignores capitals and stray spaces, and interests whose labels contain spaces work fine.
• Anything that does not match is simply ignored, so a stale or misspelled value never breaks the registration.

The Registration URL API documentation covers the matching rules, worked examples and where to find your site's interest labels.

Developers Hub

Member Quicksearch API documentation for partners

New developer documentation for the Member Quicksearch API, which returns a live sample of your own members filtered by location, age and member type, so you can show genuine local members on the landing pages you run. It covers the parameters and response fields, worked curl and JavaScript examples, the full list of countries and regions with downloadable location data, and the rules on showing only your own members and keeping profiles fresh.

Developers Hub

Page rebuilds are more reliable

A page could occasionally sit waiting to rebuild after an edit until someone nudged it with Force page update. Rebuild requests are now retried automatically if one goes astray.

Forcing a Page to Update

Choose the language of your brand, and of any single page

Your brand's language is now yours to change, and you can override it on individual pages. There are three places to set it, and a guide to how they fit together:

• Your brand's language, on the About your brand tab, next to your niche. You no longer need to ask us to change it.
• A single page's language, on that page's Landing tab, for the times one page needs to speak a different language from the rest of the site.
• Many pages at once, through the Page Language column on the Bulk Page Editor's SEO Metadata tab.

Changing a language does not re-translate copy that is already on your pages. It changes the parts HubPeople provides, such as the cookie banner and the legal links in your footer.

Languages: Building Your Brand in Another Language, Editing Page Settings in Bulk

Change your brand's niche

Your brand's niche can now be changed on the About your brand tab, in the same place as the language. Click Edit, type at least three letters into the Niche box, and pick from the niches available for your brand's audience. As with the language, changing it does not rewrite the copy already on your pages.

Introduction to Your Brand

Say whether your articles are written by a person or an organisation

Article pages can now declare their author as either a Person or an Organization in the data that search engines read, which is what Google expects for article results. Set a default for the whole brand on the Social and Sharing Defaults card, override it on any individual article, or set it across many articles at once from the Bulk Page Editor's Social and Schema tab. The page and bulk controls also offer Inherit, so a page can simply follow your brand default.

Social & Sharing, Editing Page Settings in Bulk

Report a problem with Hubbi without leaving the chat

If Hubbi does something unexpected, there is now a flag icon in the chat to report it. Describe what went wrong, send it, and the conversation is passed to the team along with your note, so we can see exactly what happened rather than working from a description after the fact.

Creating a Brand with Hubbi

One page template retired

The Minimal No Scroll With Menu landing template is no longer offered when you create a page. Pages already using it are unaffected and continue to work exactly as before.

Creating Pages

New guide: Xsell, promote one brand on another

Xsell puts an advert for one of your brands in front of the members of another. The new guide walks the whole flow, from building the offer page on the brand you want to grow, through targeting and launching the campaign, to reading the numbers it sends back. It also covers the parts of Xsell that have moved on since it launched:

• Global Brands: promotional brands built by HubPeople that any partner can cross-sell to, with revenue shared according to your partner agreement.
• Extra audience filters, so you can target by Premium Status (Classic or VIP) and by Verification as well as member type, seeking and country.
• A per-brand results breakdown on the campaign summary: ad clicks, registrations, upgrades and your share of the revenue, for each brand the advert is showing on.
• An Xsell page linked to an active campaign can no longer be deleted, so a live advert can never point at a page that has gone.

Xsell: Promote One Brand on Another

Hubbi keeps your chat history

The Hubbi assistant now remembers your conversations. A new History panel lets you reopen any earlier chat and carry on where you left off, with tools to keep the list tidy as it grows:

• Each conversation is titled automatically so you can tell them apart at a glance.
• Star the chats you come back to often, and archive the ones you are finished with (you can restore an archived chat later).
• Some Hubbi replies now include clickable suggestions, so you can pick the next step instead of typing it.

Creating a Brand with Hubbi

Brand Builder tweaks

The Brand Builder on this help site now syncs its niche list straight from the platform's new niche system, so newly added niches appear automatically and retired ones drop out. The prompt it hands to Hubbi has been sharpened too: it passes your chosen niche in exactly the form Hubbi expects, and firmly asks Hubbi to confirm the plan back to you and wait for your yes before creating anything.

Brand Builder

Metadata fixes for deeper pages and share cards

The canonical address on nested pages now resolves correctly, share cards search your brand's images more thoroughly for a usable picture when a page has none of its own, breadcrumb data is generated more robustly, and automatic sitemap refreshes now trigger on more kinds of page change.

The Indexing Switch: Keeping Pages Out of Search, Social & Sharing, Sitemaps: Telling Search Engines What Exists

Redirect rules: send old addresses to the right page

Your brand can now redirect any old or retired address to the right destination, so links keep working after you rename, move or remove pages and search engines follow you to the new address. Create and manage rules on your brand page, under the Redirect Rules tab:

• Three rule types: Direct (one address to one destination), Wildcard (a whole folder in one rule), and Regex for advanced patterns.
• Choose permanent (301) or temporary (302), set priorities when rules overlap, and pause a rule without deleting it.
• Built-in warnings flag a rule that clashes with a live page, overlaps another rule, or points at a page that does not exist.
• Works before your domain is linked too, so you can set up and test redirects on your temporary address ahead of launch.

Redirects: Sending Old Addresses to New Pages, Deep dive: Redirect Rules

A clearer Hubbi chat

The Hubbi assistant's chat has been reworked: a cleaner conversation layout that is easier to follow, expandable Reasoning panels that let you see how Hubbi is thinking a task through, and clearer prompts when Hubbi suggests switching chat mode (Ask, Plan or Agent) for what you have requested.

Creating a Brand with Hubbi

Sitemaps now look after themselves

Once your sitemap exists, you no longer need to regenerate it by hand. Your XML sitemap refreshes itself shortly after any page is added, changed or removed (a burst of edits is batched into one refresh), every entry carries the page's real last-updated date, and the file is stamped with when it was generated so you can see at a glance that it is fresh. The Regenerate button is still there for an on-demand rebuild.

Sitemaps: Telling Search Engines What Exists

A Developers hub on this help site

There is a new Developers area on this help site: technical reference documentation for the people building integrations with HubPeople, starting with the Registration URL API (how to construct sign-up links that carry your tracking and targeting). More API docs will land there as they are written.

Developers Hub

Edit page settings in bulk

Bulk edit your pages' attributes quickly, either straight in the portal or by exporting and re-importing a CSV. Filter to a section of your site by path, then change many pages at once across three areas:

• SEO metadata: page title, description, keywords, indexing and the canonical address.
• Social and schema: the share-card fields, plus article type, author and dates.
• Menu configuration: which navigation and footer menu each page uses.

Editing Page Settings in Bulk

Multi-delete mode

You can delete multiple pages across your brand more quickly.

Deleting Pages in Bulk

A clearer toolkit download screen

The Agentic Toolkit download screen has clearer wording and shows your brand data options up front. Before you download, you can see at a glance how much poll and demographics data you have to include, and a How it works link takes you straight to the setup guide.

Working with the Agentic Toolkit

French and German languages now added

When your brand is set to French or German, the shared parts of your public pages now appear in that language: the footer, the cookie-consent banner, the legal-link labels and the social widgets. This joins the English, Spanish and Portuguese already supported. You can now create a French or German brand with Hubbi, too.

Languages: Building Your Brand in Another Language, Brand Builder

Sitemaps handle unusual dates and time zones

Sitemap generation is now stricter about odd or missing page dates and pins every entry to a consistent time zone, so a page with a stray date can no longer produce an invalid sitemap entry for search engines to trip over.

Social & Sharing

Clearer, live page render status

The Page Render Status area now updates live while a page rebuilds: an animated indicator shows when a render is pending, the status keeps checking on its own until the page settles, and a 'Last rendered' time tells you how long ago it finished. Confirming that a rebuild has actually happened is now immediate and reliable.

Forcing a Page to Update

Smoother page browsing on large brands

Moving around your page tree no longer triggers unnecessary reloads or jumps back to the top, so navigating a brand with many pages feels quicker and keeps your place.

Better, fresher sitemaps

Sitemaps are now produced the moment you generate them instead of waiting behind the render queue, and each entry carries the page's real last-updated date rather than today's, so search engines get an accurate, up-to-date picture of your site.

Social & Sharing

Quotation marks no longer break page rendering

Pages whose content contains quote characters now render correctly, instead of certain quote sequences occasionally breaking the page.

Creating a Canvas Page

Search and filter your pages

The page browser has been rebuilt with a filter box: search your pages by name or path, see a live count of matches, and clear the search in one click. You can also switch between a Brand Pages view and a Brand Assets view. Behind the scenes the page tree now updates instantly after you create, move, or change pages, even on brands with a lot of pages.

Finding and Searching Your Pages

See and copy rejected items after a bulk upload

After a bulk (ZIP) upload, a Rejected tab lists every page and asset that was skipped along with the specific reason it was rejected, and a 'Copy rejection report' button copies the whole list so you can act on it or share it. No more guessing why something did not come through.

Uploading a Site with a ZIP

Current version clearly marked in content history

In a page's content history, the version you are currently on is now labelled 'Current' and locked, so you cannot accidentally restore the version you are already using, and dates are shown in a consistent format.

Clearer content version history

The content history view for a page is easier to read. It shows how many versions there are, numbers each one, gives an accurate count of what changed in each version, and states exactly what each version is compared against. Telling versions apart and restoring the right one is now much simpler.

More reliable bulk (ZIP) imports

Bulk imports are steadier. One problem page no longer stops the whole import, the rest of your pages still come through, and images on imported pages now display correctly instead of sometimes appearing broken.

Uploading a Site with a ZIP

Custom JavaScript in uploaded pages is now restricted

For security and compliance, pages brought in through a bulk (ZIP) import can no longer include custom JavaScript in the page body. Structured data for search engines (JSON-LD schema) is unaffected and keeps working as before. If your pages rely on custom scripts, please get in touch so we can help you find the right approach.

If a page you expected is missing after an import, a custom script in the page is the likely reason.

Building CSS-first Pages (no custom JavaScript), Uploading a Site with a ZIP

Correct custom-domain setup instructions

When you connect your own domain for a members area, the portal now shows the correct address to point your domain at for your type of brand. Some brands previously saw the wrong target.

Sitemaps work on temporary domains

Brands still on a temporary HubPeople address now get a valid sitemap, so search engines can read your pages before you have connected a custom domain.

Social & Sharing

See when a page was last rendered

The Page Render Status indicator in the page editor now shows a version number that ticks up each time a page is rebuilt, plus a last rendered time telling you how long ago the page finished rendering (for example '2 minutes ago'). It is now easy to confirm that a rebuild has happened, and when.

Forcing a Page to Update

Open a brand in a new tab

Opening a brand from My Brands now opens it in a new browser tab, so your brand list stays where it was while you work.

Help and feedback within reach

The dashboard navigation now has a direct Help link to this help centre and a Feedback link to the HubPeople community, so support and a place to share ideas are always one click away.

Share images use widely-supported formats

Social share images now accept JPG and PNG. SVG and WebP are no longer offered for share images, because social platforms do not display them reliably. Your other brand images are unaffected.

Social & Sharing

Clean up stale pages

A new Clean Stale HTML button clears out stale page HTML left over for your brand: for example when a page you deleted or moved still loads at its old address (often spotted when Google Search Console flags it as still returning a 200). Normally the platform tidies these up for you; this is there to force it on the occasions when one slips through.

Cleaning Up Stale Pages

Social and SEO controls for every page

Set a custom share image, title, and description for each page and watch a live preview update as you type, showing how the page will look when shared on social and how its search snippet will appear. Leave any field blank and it falls back to your brand-level defaults. Every page now generates search-engine markup automatically, and pages marked as articles can carry an author and publish date for richer search results.

Social & Sharing

Deeper page hierarchies

Organise pages up to seven levels deep, previously three.

Larger, faster bulk imports

Import a ZIP of up to 400MB to create pages in bulk. You review exactly what will be created, updated, or skipped before confirming, can pick which items to process, watch live progress with an estimated time remaining, cancel a running import at any time, and have images uploaded and linked for you automatically.

Creating Pages

More reliable custom domain linking

Linking your own domain is clearer and more robust, with an explicit confirmation before removing a domain and a 'your app is live' email once the link completes.

A more robust agentic toolkit

The agentic toolkit now runs through a single, more reliable flow with clearer error handling.

Working with the Agentic Toolkit

Cleaner link tracking

Partner tracking (the pn parameter) is now added only to your sign-up and registration links, rather than to every link on a page, so the rest of your links stay clean.

Bulk edit pages

Edit several pages at once: change their template, their SEO title, description, and keywords, and their navigation and footer menu and visibility. An 'apply to selected' shortcut copies a value across all the pages you have chosen.

Agentic toolkit downloads with brand data

When you download your toolkit you can choose to bundle in your own brand data, so it arrives pre-loaded with your real content. General toolkit improvements are included too.

Working with the Agentic Toolkit

Links with special characters

Links that contain characters like the ampersand now render correctly.

Reliable page search

Searching within your page hierarchy now works reliably.

Generate Canvas pages with AI

Select one or more pages and have AI draft their content. Set a creativity level and the instructions, add keywords per page, then track generation progress and view or edit the result.

Creating a Canvas Page

Homepage contact form and mailing list signup

The homepage now has a contact form and a protected mailing list signup.

Improved content history

A clearer view of a page's content history.

Interface polish

Assorted interface fixes, including icon sizing, the page preview form, and the Hubbi reasoning view.

Hubbi refinements

A smoother Hubbi experience when switching modes and viewing its reasoning.

Improved brand assets upload

Uploading brand assets is smoother and more reliable.

Uploading a Site with a ZIP

Chat with Hubbi

Hubbi, the in-portal AI assistant, now has a full chat panel you can open on any screen. Ask about your brand, have it draft a plan before making any changes, or let it act directly: creating and updating pages, switching templates, and setting SEO. Replies stream in as they are written, with a stop button, an optional view of its reasoning, and one-tap follow-up suggestions.

Choose the AI model for your chat

Pick which AI model powers Hubbi and save it as your default.

Build several pages at once

Ask Hubbi to create up to twenty pages in one go and review them in a panel, adjusting each page's address, type, template, and SEO, before anything is created.

The agentic toolkit arrives

Download a ready-to-use toolkit bundle for working with the agentic toolkit for your brand, and upload files for the platform to process, with a review-and-confirm step before anything happens.

Working with the Agentic Toolkit

Canvas pages and brand assets for everyone

Canvas pages and the brand assets area are now available to all users in the portal, not just admins.

Creating a Canvas Page, Introduction to Your Brand

Content history and text editor improvements

A clearer content history view, plus link support in the text editor.

Better image quality

Images on your published pages now render at higher quality.

Canvas image optimisation and brand assets access

Canvas images are optimised automatically, with new help text and wider access to the brand assets area.

Introduction to Your Brand