Magic Pages Open House Q2/2026

Welcome to the first Magic Pages Open House! 👋 Newsletters and roadmaps are one-way streets, so we sat down with our customers and the Ghost community for an hour and a half to show what we've shipped in 2026 so far, what's coming next, and to answer questions live. What we cover: 🔒 Private RSS feeds for members (beta) — let your free and paid members read members-only content in their RSS reader, with branded feeds, automatic discovery emails, and privacy-aware analytics 💾 Off-site backups — daily backups of your site delivered to your own storage: S3-compatible, SFTP, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive 🤖 AI controls — block all AI crawlers with a single switch, or enable Ghost's llms.txt if you want AI to find your content. Your site, your choice — we don't police either way. 🔍 Advanced search v2 — semantic search that understands intent (not just keywords), members-only content indexing, search analytics, three new layouts — and it's fully open source 🏠 A look ahead — the new external customer portal: all your sites in one overview, consolidated billing with 10% off every additional site, shared email credits, digitally signed data processing agreements, and server-side analytics Ghost itself can't see 🎙️And a little surprise: the Magic Pages Podcast — biweekly conversations with the people building, hosting, and publishing on Ghost Chapters: 0:00 Welcome — why an Open House? 4:20 Private RSS feeds for your members (beta) 12:33 Q&A: private RSS feeds 14:15 Off-site backups: S3, SFTP, Google Drive, Dropbox & OneDrive 18:12 Q&A: backup destinations & EU-based storage options 23:45 AI controls: blocking AI crawlers & llms.txt 30:10 Pay-per-crawl & the Facebook preview problem 37:51 Advanced search v2: semantic search, now open source 45:07 Live demo: search layouts, filters & members-only results 48:05 Search analytics: learning what your readers look for 50:30 Roadmap: the new external customer portal 52:47 Multi-site discount & consolidated billing 54:19 Shared email credits across sites 56:57 Data processing agreements, signed digitally 1:01:52 Server-side analytics: AI crawlers, bots & cache hit ratio 1:05:58 Announcing the Magic Pages Podcast 1:10:12 Open-sourcing our themes 1:11:39 Community Q&A 1:14:13 Long-term goals for Magic Pages 1:17:14 Our relationship with Ghost & thoughts on competition 1:21:40 Ghost and WordPress — different tools, different purposes 1:24:20 Wrap-up: Indiecon in Hamburg & the Q3 Open House Links: 🌐 Magic Pages: https://www.magicpages.co 🎙️The Magic Pages Podcast: https://www.magicpages.co/podcast 🔍 Open-source Ghost search: https://github.com/magicpages/ghost-t... 💬 Questions? [email protected] See you at the Q3 Open House in September!