Writing and publishing

Your agent makes the card.
You fill it in.

A card type is a card your agent makes once for your site: a carousel, a pull quote with a portrait, a pricing row. You insert it in any post and fill in its fields, and the site shows it in your theme's fonts.

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Say it to your agent

Make me a carousel card with a picture and a caption on each slide, and a switch to play it on its own.

  • list_site_pages
  • read_site_page
  • write_site_page
  • edit_site_page

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. Ask your agent for the card. When it is written, it is in the editor at once.
  2. In the editor, open Blocks and choose Custom blocks. Search, and pick the card by its title.
  3. Fill its fields in the card's box: text, links, pictures, switches, and lists of them with Add.
  4. Read the Card preview beside the fields, then publish the post as usual.

No screen makes a card type; your agent writes it as files in your site's folder. Filling one in is yours, in the editor.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

Make me a carousel card with a picture and a caption on each slide, and a switch to play it on its own.

Make a pull-quote card with the quote, the person's name and a small portrait, in our theme's fonts.

Add a caption under each picture to the carousel card, and keep the fields posts already use.

The tools it calls

  • list_site_pages
  • read_site_page
  • write_site_page
  • edit_site_page
  • render_page
  • site_pages_history
  • restore_site_pages

For example

  • A carousel for a photo club

    A photo club's agent makes a carousel card. Each member fills it with their own pictures in their weekly post.

  • Testimonials for a yoga studio

    A yoga studio asks for a quote card with a portrait and a name, and uses it on every class page.

Questions, answered

What is a card type on PixelGlass?
A card your agent makes once for your site, which any writer then inserts from the editor's Blocks menu, under Custom blocks, and fills in.
How is a card type different from a block?
A block is one program in one post, in a sandboxed frame. A card type is markup on the page itself, in your theme's look, made again from the writer's data every time the page renders.
What fields can a card have?
Text, a link, a picture, a yes or no switch, and a list of those. The editor makes the controls from the card's definition.
Does my agent's code run in the editor?
No. The editor's controls are PixelGlass's own, and the card's preview runs in a sandboxed frame. The card's script runs only on your site.
Who can make a card type?
An admin's or the owner's agent, which writes it with write_site_page. Every write is a version, and restore_site_pages takes it back. Card types are an early prototype.

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