October 30, 2025: Streamline your site’s subscription purchases

October 30, 2025

This week’s release introduces a new ‘Primary Subscription’ option, which makes it easier for readers to purchase a subscription on your site.

To set a Primary Subscription product, navigate to Newspack > Audience > Subscriptions and select your subscription product from the dropdown. Any variable subscription and grouped subscription products on your site will be listed:

Once a subscription product is selected, a URL will be generated like in the screenshot above. When a reader follows that URL, they’ll be prompted to purchase a subscription or to upgrade their subscription if they already have one. This URL can be used to trigger this streamlined purchase flow from calls-to-action, campaigns, and from your newsletter:

A new subscriber will see the prompt on the left, where they can pick a tier; an existing subscriber will be presented with the opportunity to change their subscription.

Other changes

[NEW] Support inline image caption, horizontal rule, all headings and blockquotes in the InDesign Exporter (#4201)
[NEW] The Social Links Menu now supports links to Nextdoor (#2561)
[NEW] Check donation products for issues and show a warning in the Audience Configuration page if any are found (#4163)
[NEW] The Newsletters’ Ad and Share Newsletter blocks no longer allow changing visibility settings, as they are email-only blocks (#1941)
[NEW] Update the campaigns generated by Audience Management so the Newsletter Sign up and Donate blocks will use the modern style by default going forward. (#1477)
[FIX] Update the one and two column layouts for the Collections block so they remain one and two columns respectively on tablet and mobile-sized screens (#4224)
[FIX] Remove the left text alignment as a default on the Content Loop block so it respects the text direction in RTL languages. By default the block will now pick up the webpage’s text direction, which can then be overridden with the left, center, and right alignments (#2215)
[FIX] Borders and padding applied in the newsletter editor should be much more accurate when rendered in email HTML. (#1948)
[FIX] Fix a couple minor display issues in the editor that happened when certain blocks were set to ‘skip reading’ in Everlit. (#2564)