Writing and publishing

Pictures in place.
At the width you choose.

Images and video are cards in the PixelGlass editor. Upload a file, pick one from your library or Unsplash, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link, and set each card to regular, wide or full width.

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Upload these three photos to my library and put them in the post about the harbour, one after each section.

  • upload_media
  • get_post
  • edit_post
  • set_feature_image

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. In the editor, open Blocks or the column of cards beside the page, and choose Image or Video.
  2. For an image, press Upload or From the library, or drop a file on the card. The library sheet also searches Unsplash.
  3. For a video, paste a YouTube or Vimeo link and press Embed, or upload a film of your own and choose a thumbnail.
  4. Select the card to set its Width: Regular width, Wide or Full width. An image can also take a link and a caption.
  5. For the cover, use Upload, From the library or Unsplash above the title, then pick how the header shows it.
  6. Open Media in the navbar to see every file, where each is used, and to purge the ones nothing uses.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

Upload the photo at this address and make it the cover of my post “Low tide”, with alt text that describes it.

Put these three photos in the harbour post, one after each section, with a short caption under each.

Remove the cover from the post about the old bridge.

The tools it calls

  • upload_media
  • get_post
  • edit_post
  • set_feature_image

For example

  • A recipe, step by step

    A cook uploads a photo for each step and sets the last one, the finished dish, to full width.

  • A talk, embedded

    A design studio pastes the YouTube link of its conference talk into a Video card. The reader's player is made again from the link on every page.

  • A travel post from the road

    A cyclist sends his agent photo links from his phone. It uploads them to the library, makes the best one the cover and places the rest.

Questions, answered

How do I add an image to a post on PixelGlass?
Choose Image from the Blocks menu, then upload a file, drop one on the card, or pick one from the library or from Unsplash.
Which video can I put in a post on PixelGlass?
A YouTube or Vimeo link, embedded with the Video card, or a film you upload yourself, with a thumbnail you choose.
Can images be wider than the text?
Yes. Each image or video card is Regular width, Wide or Full width. Your theme sets what each width measures.
Where are all my uploads?
On the Media screen. It lists every file, shows where each one is used, and Purge unused deletes the files that nothing shows.
Can my agent add pictures to a post?
Yes. It uploads a picture from an address with upload_media, writes it into the post's Markdown, and sets the cover, its alt text and caption with set_feature_image.

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