# What you can do with PixelGlass > How to start a blog, send a newsletter, sell memberships, run a community and design a theme on PixelGlass: by hand, or with Claude or ChatGPT. Each guide is one thing a PixelGlass publication can do, shown two ways: by hand in the admin, and with an AI agent connected to the site's MCP server. ## Getting started - [Start a blog](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-blog) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-blog.md)): Sign up with your email, choose an address and start writing. 14 days free, with no card. Set it up by hand or with your agent. - [Start a blog from Claude](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-blog-from-claude) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-blog-from-claude.md)): Connect PixelGlass to Claude or ChatGPT and ask for a blog. Your agent reserves the address; you add a card at Stripe. 14 days free. - [Set up your publication](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-up-your-publication) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-up-your-publication.md)): Name your publication, write its line, add a logo, choose its languages and its theme. Do it in the welcome walk, in Settings, or with your agent. - [Choose a plan](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-plan) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-plan.md)): Seven plans, every feature on each. They differ in newsletter emails a month and storage, and the emails you do not send roll over for 12 months. ## Writing and publishing - [Write and publish a post](https://pixelglass.co/guides/write-and-publish-a-post) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/write-and-publish-a-post.md)): Write a post in the PixelGlass editor, check it in your theme, and publish it to your site, your newsletter or both. By hand or with your agent. - [Schedule a post](https://pixelglass.co/guides/schedule-a-post) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/schedule-a-post.md)): Pick a day and a time, and PixelGlass publishes the post on that minute, with its newsletter if you chose one. By hand or with your agent. - [Restore an earlier version](https://pixelglass.co/guides/restore-an-earlier-version) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/restore-an-earlier-version.md)): Post history keeps the last 50 versions of every post. See what changed, who changed it, and restore any version in the editor. - [Add a live chart to a post](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-live-chart-to-a-post) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-live-chart-to-a-post.md)): Ask your agent for a chart, a calculator or a small program, and it lands in the post as a block readers use on the page. In the editor or with your agent. - [Add images and video](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-images-and-video) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-images-and-video.md)): Add pictures, YouTube or Vimeo video and your own films to a post, set their width, and give it a cover. In the editor, or ask your agent for the pictures. - [Edit many posts at once](https://pixelglass.co/guides/edit-many-posts-at-once) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/edit-many-posts-at-once.md)): Tick posts on the list, or select every post a filter finds, and change their authors, tags or access in one go. By hand or with your agent. - [Organise posts with tags](https://pixelglass.co/guides/organise-posts-with-tags) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/organise-posts-with-tags.md)): Tag posts as you write, make the first tag the primary one, and give every tag its own page on your site. By hand or with your agent. - [Write alongside your agent](https://pixelglass.co/guides/write-alongside-your-agent) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/write-alongside-your-agent.md)): Your agent says in the editor that it is writing a post, and holds off while you have the post open. Every change it makes is a version you can undo. - [Make an About page](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-an-about-page) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-an-about-page.md)): Write an About page in the editor and put it in your menu, or let your agent build it as a page of its own design. By hand or with your agent. - [Build a directory of pages](https://pixelglass.co/guides/build-a-directory-of-pages) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/build-a-directory-of-pages.md)): A collection is a tree of pages: surf spots by country, region and spot, each level a page at its own address. Build it by hand or with your agent. Early access. - [Make your own editor card](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-your-own-editor-card) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-your-own-editor-card.md)): Ask your agent for a card you will use again, such as a carousel or a pull quote, then insert it and fill it in the editor, in any post. Early access. ## Newsletters - [Start a newsletter](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-newsletter) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-newsletter.md)): Every PixelGlass site starts with a newsletter. Name it, choose who joins, and send any post to it. Set up by hand; your agent writes the issues. - [Send a post as an email](https://pixelglass.co/guides/send-a-post-as-an-email) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/send-a-post-as-an-email.md)): Publish a post to the site and email, or email it alone. Pick the list, the readers and the design, then send now or later. Your agent drafts it. - [Run several newsletters](https://pixelglass.co/guides/run-several-newsletters) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/run-several-newsletters.md)): Run a weekly letter, a digest and a briefing side by side. Readers choose their lists, and each post goes to the one you pick. By hand, with your agent. - [Add a subscribe form](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-subscribe-form) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-subscribe-form.md)): Put a subscribe form anywhere on your site. Each address confirms with one email before it joins a list. With a theme that has one, or with your agent. - [See who opened your newsletter](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-opened-your-newsletter) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-opened-your-newsletter.md)): Every send has a campaign page: emailed, delivered, opened and clicked, the clicks on each link, and every recipient with what their copy did. - [Design your newsletter email](https://pixelglass.co/guides/design-your-newsletter-email) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/design-your-newsletter-email.md)): Choose Classic or Plain for each send, see it as it will arrive, and send a test to yourself. Your theme's fonts and your accent, built for mail clients. - [Set a reply-to address](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-a-reply-to-address) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-a-reply-to-address.md)): Choose where readers' replies go: one address for the publication, or one for each newsletter. Each is confirmed first. Set in the admin by an admin. - [Send from your own domain](https://pixelglass.co/guides/send-from-your-own-domain) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/send-from-your-own-domain.md)): Send your readers' email from newsletter@yourdomain.com, not a PixelGlass address. Add the domain, paste three DNS records, and it switches when they verify. Early access. ## Members and community - [Let readers sign in](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-readers-sign-in) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-readers-sign-in.md)): Readers sign up and sign in with a six-digit code by email, with no password. Turn it on, place the doors in your menus, by hand or with your agent. - [Moderate comments](https://pixelglass.co/guides/moderate-comments) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/moderate-comments.md)): Hide a comment, show it again or delete it with its replies, ban a reader from commenting, and close a post's conversation. By hand or with your agent. - [Give members badges](https://pixelglass.co/guides/give-members-badges) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/give-members-badges.md)): Make a badge with a name, a line and a picture, give it to members, and it shows beside their name on every comment. By hand or with your agent. - [Make a private circle](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-a-private-circle) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-a-private-circle.md)): A circle is a group of members with no price, and posts only they read. Make one, put people in it, lock posts for it. By hand or with your agent. Early access. - [Let readers share posts](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-readers-share-posts) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-readers-share-posts.md)): Members share short posts and photos on your site, liked and replied to, and your team moderates them beside the comments. By hand or with your agent. Early access. - [Import your subscribers](https://pixelglass.co/guides/import-your-subscribers) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/import-your-subscribers.md)): Bring your list in from a CSV or JSON file: match the columns, choose the newsletters and labels, and nobody gets an email. Request import first. Early access. - [Sign readers in with your app](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sign-readers-in-with-your-app) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sign-readers-in-with-your-app.md)): Readers signed in to your app arrive signed in on your PixelGlass site. A short signed token from your server, a secret only the owner makes. Early access. - [Manage your member list](https://pixelglass.co/guides/manage-your-member-list) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/manage-your-member-list.md)): Find any reader by name or address, filter by status, plan, newsletter and label, add a person by hand, and change many members at once. ## Paid memberships - [Sell paid memberships](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sell-paid-memberships) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sell-paid-memberships.md)): Connect Stripe, Paystack or Dodo Payments, make tiers with monthly and yearly prices, and lock posts for the readers who pay. No platform fee. - [Put a post behind a paywall](https://pixelglass.co/guides/put-a-post-behind-a-paywall) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/put-a-post-behind-a-paywall.md)): Lock any post for members, for paying members or for chosen tiers. Readers outside see the title and the excerpt. Do it in the editor or ask your agent. - [Choose a payment provider](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-payment-provider) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-payment-provider.md)): Stripe, Paystack or Dodo Payments: which one fits where you and your readers are, what each asks of you, and why PixelGlass takes no fee on any. - [Offer a free trial](https://pixelglass.co/guides/offer-a-free-trial) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/offer-a-free-trial.md)): Give new paying members free days before the first payment. Set the trial on a tier, from 1 to 365 days, on Stripe or Dodo Payments. - [Comp a member](https://pixelglass.co/guides/comp-a-member) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/comp-a-member.md)): Comp a reader on any tier, for good or until a day you choose: a guest writer, a partner, a press pass. They read what the tier opens and pay nothing. - [Sell in your own currency](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sell-in-your-own-currency) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sell-in-your-own-currency.md)): Price your tiers in won, naira, euros or any of 139 currencies. Choose the currency when you connect Stripe, Paystack or Dodo Payments. ## Design and themes - [Change your theme](https://pixelglass.co/guides/change-your-theme) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/change-your-theme.md)): Try any of the 9 themes on your own site, fill in its settings and make it live. Do it in Settings › Design or ask your agent. - [Design a theme with your agent](https://pixelglass.co/guides/design-a-theme-with-your-agent) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/design-a-theme-with-your-agent.md)): Describe the look you want. Your agent edits the theme's templates and styles, checks each page and sends you the link. Every step can be undone. - [Preview a theme before it goes live](https://pixelglass.co/guides/preview-a-theme-before-it-goes-live) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/preview-a-theme-before-it-goes-live.md)): See your own site in another theme, page by page, before readers do. Use the Design frame by hand, or a private preview link from your agent. - [Undo a theme change](https://pixelglass.co/guides/undo-a-theme-change) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/undo-a-theme-change.md)): Every change to a PixelGlass theme is kept. Look at any earlier version on your site, then restore it, in Settings › Design or with your agent. - [Edit your menus](https://pixelglass.co/guides/edit-your-menus) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/edit-your-menus.md)): Change the links in your site's masthead and footer menus. Add, reorder and remove them in Settings › Design, or ask your agent. - [Update a bundled theme](https://pixelglass.co/guides/update-a-bundled-theme) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/update-a-bundled-theme.md)): A new release of a PixelGlass theme merges over your own changes. Pick a side where they meet, or let your agent carry your design through. - [Add code to every page](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-code-to-every-page) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-code-to-every-page.md)): Paste an analytics tag, a chat widget or a site verification into the head or foot of every page with Code injection. Owners and admins only. ## Agents and MCP - [Connect Claude](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-claude) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-claude.md)): Add your PixelGlass site to Claude as a custom connector and sign in. Claude then writes, publishes and designs as you, on web, desktop and mobile. - [Connect ChatGPT](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-chatgpt) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-chatgpt.md)): Add your PixelGlass site to ChatGPT as an app in Developer mode and sign in. ChatGPT then writes and publishes on your site as you. - [Connect a coding agent](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-a-coding-agent) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-a-coding-agent.md)): Make a key in Settings › MCP setup and paste one command or file. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI and more then work on your site as you. - [Know what an agent may do](https://pixelglass.co/guides/what-an-agent-may-do) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/what-an-agent-may-do.md)): An agent on PixelGlass works as the person who connected it, inside that person's role. See what each role allows, and what the agent refuses. - [Let your agent run the weekly issue](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-your-agent-run-the-weekly-issue) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/let-your-agent-run-the-weekly-issue.md)): From a list of links to a ready draft: your agent writes the issue, adds the cover, tags it and fills in the search fields. You read it and send it. - [Disconnect an agent](https://pixelglass.co/guides/disconnect-an-agent) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/disconnect-an-agent.md)): Remove an app or a key in Settings › MCP setup and the agent is off your site at once. Connected through your account? Remove the app there. ## Search, AI search and analytics - [Get found in AI search](https://pixelglass.co/guides/get-found-in-ai-search) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/get-found-in-ai-search.md)): Every PixelGlass site serves llms.txt, a Markdown twin of every post, feeds and a sitemap. Here is what you add, by hand or with your agent. - [Set a post up for search](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-a-post-up-for-search) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-a-post-up-for-search.md)): Write the meta title and description, choose the address, add a share picture. PixelGlass writes the rest of the head. By hand or with your agent. - [Read your traffic](https://pixelglass.co/guides/read-your-traffic) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/read-your-traffic.md)): The Dashboard shows visitors, views, sources, countries and devices, with no cookie and no banner. What each figure means, and how to filter it. - [Track campaign links](https://pixelglass.co/guides/track-campaign-links) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/track-campaign-links.md)): Tag a link to your site with utm_source, utm_campaign or ref, and see the visitors it brought on the Dashboard. Newsletter clicks are tagged for you. - [See who is reading now](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-is-reading-now) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-is-reading-now.md)): The Dashboard counts the visitors on your site in the last five minutes, and counts again every half minute. Then read today by the hour. - [Fix broken links](https://pixelglass.co/guides/fix-broken-links) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/fix-broken-links.md)): PixelGlass checks every link in a newsletter as it goes out and tells you which look broken. Fix one, and every copy already sent leads to the new address. ## Developers - [Use PixelGlass as a headless CMS](https://pixelglass.co/guides/use-pixelglass-as-a-headless-cms) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/use-pixelglass-as-a-headless-cms.md)): Add .json to any address of your site and read posts, pages, tags and authors with a content key. Write in PixelGlass, show it in your own code. - [Sync members from your app](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sync-members-from-your-app) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/sync-members-from-your-app.md)): Keep your app's users and your PixelGlass members in step over the admin's JSON: find by address, add, change, label, and change many at once. Early access. - [Read your notifications from code](https://pixelglass.co/guides/read-your-notifications-from-code) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/read-your-notifications-from-code.md)): New members, comments, paid plans, sends and agents' posts, as JSON with a staff key. Every event of the audit log too, for owners and admins. - [Make a staff key](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-a-staff-key) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-a-staff-key.md)): A staff key acts as you, inside your role, on the admin's JSON and the MCP server. Make one, copy it once, remove it to close it. ## Running a publication - [Connect your own domain](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-your-own-domain) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/connect-your-own-domain.md)): Put your PixelGlass site on blog.example.com or example.com: type the domain, add the DNS records it shows, and PixelGlass checks them for you. - [Invite your team](https://pixelglass.co/guides/invite-your-team) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/invite-your-team.md)): Invite writers, editors and admins to your PixelGlass publication by email, each with a role that sets what they may do. No price per seat. - [Publish in many languages](https://pixelglass.co/guides/publish-in-many-languages) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/publish-in-many-languages.md)): Add languages to your PixelGlass site and translate each post into them. Every translation gets its own address, feed and search listing. - [Run the admin in Korean](https://pixelglass.co/guides/run-the-admin-in-korean) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/run-the-admin-in-korean.md)): The PixelGlass admin speaks English and Korean. Set it for the whole publication, or let each person on the staff pick their own. - [See who did what](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-did-what) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-did-what.md)): The audit log lists everything that happened at your publication, and who did it: staff, readers, agents and PixelGlass. Notifications show what matters. - [Make your site private](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-your-site-private) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/make-your-site-private.md)): Close your PixelGlass site to everyone but your staff, before a launch or for a newsletter that lives in the inbox. One setting in Settings › General. - [Reset your site](https://pixelglass.co/guides/reset-your-site) ([Markdown](https://pixelglass.co/guides/reset-your-site.md)): Delete every post, member, file and setting and start your PixelGlass publication again on the same address. The owner's alone, and it cannot be undone.