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From the blog · Jul 18, 2026
Analytics: Google and Clicky

If you use Google Analytics or Clicky, you can now connect it with a setting rather than pasting a script into your site. Why a setting rather than a script box Three reasons, all practical.

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From the blog · Jun 13, 2026
Link Monitoring Across Your Site

Every request for an address that does not exist is recorded: what was asked for, where the visitor came from, and how often it happens. Patterns raise an alert.

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From the blog · May 16, 2026
Automatic Sitemaps

Your actor website now generates and maintains its own sitemap. Add a page and it appears in it. Change a page and its date updates. Hide a page and it comes out.

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From the blog · Apr 18, 2026
Domain Availability Checker

There is a domain checker in your admin now. Type a name, see whether it is available across the extensions worth having, and get alternatives when it is not.

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From the blog · Mar 28, 2026
Order Management for Your Shop

There is now an orders screen behind your store. Every enquiry becomes a record you can move through statuses, annotate and search.

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From the blog · Feb 21, 2026
Custom JavaScript, Safely Reviewed

You can now add custom JavaScript to your actor website. Unlike custom CSS, it does not go live immediately. It is reviewed first, usually within a working day.

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From the blog · Feb 14, 2026
Custom CSS for Advanced Users

There is now a custom stylesheet box in your design settings. What you write there is applied to your site after everything else, so it can override any rule in the design.

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From the blog · Nov 15, 2025
How Backstage and YouTube Scanning Works

Press mentions works by searching a set of sources for your name on a schedule and putting what it finds in your dashboard. Backstage and YouTube are two of those sources.

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From the blog · Nov 15, 2025
Real-Time Alerts While You Work

The admin now receives updates as they happen. A message arriving while you are editing your credits shows up immediately, in the counter and in the list, without you doing anything.

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From the blog · Oct 25, 2025
Follow Your Ranking Over Time

The ranking panel introduced in STARmeter tracking now draws a full history: weekly, monthly or yearly, with your own credits and press items marked on the line.

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From the blog · Oct 18, 2025
STARmeter Tracking for Actors

Your dashboard now tracks your industry ranking and keeps the history, so you can see the direction of travel rather than whatever the number happens to be on the day you look.

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From the blog · Oct 11, 2025
Newsletter Signups on Your Website

You can drop a newsletter signup onto any page of your free actor website.