# No password. A code by email.

> 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.

A PixelGlass site has members from day one. A reader types an address, **gets a six-digit code by email**, and is signed in. The screens wear your theme's colours and fonts, and open over any page.

## By hand, in the admin

1. Open **Settings › Audience** and check that **Let readers sign up and sign in** is on. A new site starts with it on.
2. Under **Avatars**, choose the face members wear: Pixel art, Personas, Adventurer or Initials. Save.
3. Look at your site. Every bundled theme shows **Sign in** and **Sign up** to a visitor, and **Account** to a member.
4. To place the doors yourself, open **Settings › Design › Navigation**, pick **Sign in**, **Sign up** or **Account** under **Shortcuts**, and save.
5. A reader enters an address, then the code from their inbox. The code works for ten minutes.

## With your agent

> Put Sign in and Account links at the end of my footer menu.

> Move Sign up to the end of the main menu, after About.

> Give the sign-in screens our green accent and the serif we use for headings.

The tools it calls: `get_navigation`, `set_navigation`, `list_theme_files`, `read_theme_file`, `edit_theme_file`.

The switch that turns sign-in on or off is yours, in Settings › Audience. An admin's agent places the doors in your menus and dresses the sign-in screens in your theme.

## Examples

- **A neighbourhood paper.** A local news site keeps the theme's Sign in in the masthead. **Readers sign in to comment** on the council reports, and nobody makes a password.
- **A recipe site with a quiet footer.** A cook takes the doors out of the masthead and asks her agent to put Sign in and Account in the footer menu instead.
- **A portfolio with no members.** A photographer turns sign-in off. The doors leave the theme, the sign-in pages are gone, and no data is deleted.

## Questions

### How do readers sign in to a PixelGlass site?

With a six-digit code sent to their email. They type their address, then the code. The code works for ten minutes, and five wrong tries spend it.

### Do PixelGlass members need a password?

No. Signing up and signing in both use a code by email. A reader who signs up can give a name too.

### What happens when I turn sign-in off?

Readers cannot sign up or sign in, and the Sign in links leave your theme. No member and no data is deleted. Turn it on again in Settings › Audience.

### Do new members join my newsletter?

A reader who confirms their address joins every newsletter set to Subscribe newcomers automatically. A reader who left every list joins none.

### Can the sign-in screens match my theme?

Yes. PixelGlass draws the sign-in screens in your theme's accent, fonts and corners. A theme can also bring its own stylesheet or its own templates for them.

### Can a member sign in to my admin?

No. A member is a reader, never a staff account. A member's sign-in opens your site and nothing in the PixelGlass admin.

## See also

- [Moderate comments](https://pixelglass.co/guides/moderate-comments): 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.
- [Manage your member list](https://pixelglass.co/guides/manage-your-member-list): 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.
- [Add a subscribe form](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-subscribe-form): 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.
- [Members and comments](https://pixelglass.co/features/community): Give readers a member account with no password, a conversation under every post, and badges that honour your supporters. Moderated by your team.
- [Every guide](https://pixelglass.co/guides)
- [Pricing](https://pixelglass.co/pricing): every feature on every plan, 14 days free
- [Create your site](https://pixelglass.co/signup)