Hey, Hashnode community 👋. Here's a list of exciting updates and improvements on Hashnode.

Blog search

We shipped a Search feature to every Hashnode blog to help readers find specific articles on your blog very fast.

This feature is auto-enabled and is available for every Hashnoder.

Hotjar integration

Hotjar is behavior analytics and user feedback service that helps you understand your website users' behavior and get their feedback through tools such as heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys.

The Hotjar integration on Hashnode powered blogs will enable every Dev Blogger to understand their readers better. Find out more in this article by Catalin Pit.

Disable comments feature

We added an option to disable comments on your articles.

If you ever want to disable comments on any article published on your Hashnode powered blog, click on the Disable Comments check box at the bottom-right corner of your article's draft page.

Add your YouTube channel to your blog's header

You can now add your youtube channel to the social media section of your blog. Follow the steps below to activate this new feature.

• Go to your Blog's Dashboard.
• Click on GENERAL.
• Scroll down and add a link to your youtube channel in the Youtube Channel section of the page.
• Click on the Update Changes button to complete the activation process.

If you followed the steps above correctly, Youtube's logo linked to your channel would now appear on your blog's header, just like the image above.

A few weeks ago, one of our community members Simon Høiberg created an interesting feature request for Hashnode to support connecting a GitHub repository as a source for every article published on your Hashnode powered blog.

We thought it was fascinating and started working on it.

We are happy to announce that you can now connect a GitHub repository as a source for your Hashnode articles. With this, you can use your favorite editor to write your article, and as soon as you commit it to your GitHub repository, it gets published on Hashnode automatically!

Learn more in this article by our founder Sandeep Panda. 🙌

This feature is in private beta and currently available to Hashnode Ambassadors.

This week, we shipped one of the most requested features by the Hashnode developer community.

You can change the look and feel of your blog with CSS.🎨

Find out all you need to know about customizing your Hashnode powered blog with custom CSS in this article by our founder Sandeep Panda.

Custom CSS is in beta and is only available for Hashnode Ambassadors at the moment.

We've introduced a new badge to reward authors whose articles are Featured on Hashnode.

Every time your article is featured on Hashnode, this badge will appear on your blog's badges page and the article that was featured.

To hide the featured badge from showing on the article, go to the top of the article, click on more and select hide the badges from the dropdown menu.