New betas for PupperPost have just gone live, supporting two major new features. The first is a majorly-reconsidered subscription handling feature. It contends with what I’ve long considered the central problem of PupperPost’s business model: because the app offers annual subscriptions for hosting 1, 3 or 5 blogs, there needs to be a mechanism for selecting what blogs are covered!

That’s exactly what this new Subscription management screen is about:

Blog Export

I’m really proud to have finally built this feature. For the longest time, I wrestled with the best way to provide blog export: some kind of XML format? JSON? Should it be importable to some other blog system?

I surveyed the field for this feature and came away no less confused. It seems every blog system out there has an idiosyncratic export format, and the quality and support of their exports vary widely.

For my part, I want PupperPost’s customers to be assured that they can get everything they put into the system. That means every post and every image. As you can see at the top of this post, that’s exactly what I’m providing. Your export (see Settings > Blog Settings, and choose the Export command) contains your posts, micro-posts and static pages as separate folders. Each post has its own folder with a media directory that contains any images associated with the post.

And I have this working on both macOS and iOS. Give it a shot next time you’re trying out PupperPost!