What's New at AuthorLoft — September 2026

It's been a big stretch — here's everything we shipped to help you build a site that looks great, reaches more people, and grows with whatever you create.

🎨 A brand-new look, site-wide

Your public pages — homepage, pricing, blog, and every solution page — now share one polished visual identity: richer color, a warmer display font for headlines, and cleaner buttons throughout. Same AuthorLoft, looking like the professional platform it is.

🎯 Your homepage now shows off what you actually make

Sell Books, teach Courses, and share Music? Your homepage hero — and the sections right below it — can now spotlight whichever one you want front and center. Change it any time from Branding → Hero.

🎵 Music has a real home on your site

Musicians can now publish playlist pages right on their own AuthorLoft site — paste a YouTube playlist and we build it automatically, or bulk-paste links straight from a spreadsheet. We've since redesigned Music pages into a streaming-app-style grid with playable track cards, and added 8 new genre-matched color palettes (Rock, Country, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electronic, Jazz, Classical, R&B/Soul) so your page looks like it belongs to your sound.

🌐 Bring your own domain

Standard and Premium authors can now connect a custom domain themselves, right from Settings — no more waiting on us. Type your domain, get the DNS record to add, and you're live under your own name.

📚 Course creation got a lot faster

Import an entire course straight from a YouTube playlist or a CSV, and your courses are now discoverable in the AuthorLoft Bookstore. Discount codes now work on Courses and Bundles too, so your promotions cover your whole catalog, not just books.

✉️ Easier to find, easier to sign up

Readers can now email you directly from your homepage and About page with one click. And signing up got simpler: creating an account is a single step now (no more picking your web address up front), and — new — you can change your site's address later from Settings without losing your search ranking or breaking old links.

📣 Behind the scenes

New authors get a one-stop Getting Started checklist, early supporters can now be recognized with a Founding Member badge, our login and signup pages got a brand refresh to match the rest of the site, and a new /compare hub lets prospects see how AuthorLoft stacks up for Books, Courses, and Music side by side.

Thanks for building with us — more soon.

New here? Create your author site free → /register

— The AuthorLoft Team