Paid memberships

Lock the post.
Keep the reader.

Every post on PixelGlass has a Who can read setting. Choose members, paying members or the tiers you name, and everyone else sees the title, the cover and the excerpt, then the way in.

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Make my three newest guides for paying members only, and leave the rest public.

  • list_posts
  • update_post_settings
  • change_posts

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. Open the post in the editor and press Post settings.
  2. Under Who can read, choose Public, Members only, Paid members only or Specific tiers.
  3. For Specific tiers, tick the tiers whose members read the whole post.
  4. A draft saves by itself; on a published post, press Update. The paywall is live at once, on the site and in every theme.
  5. To lock many posts, tick them on the posts list, open Access, choose who can read and press Apply.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

Make the post called “Inside the March numbers” for paying members only.

Lock every post tagged Deep dives for members on the Studio tier.

List my members-only posts and open the oldest two to everyone.

The tools it calls

  • list_posts
  • update_post_settings
  • change_posts

For example

  • A weekly column, free for a week

    A food writer publishes each column for everyone, then asks her agent every Monday to lock last week's column for paying members.

  • A tier for the deep dives

    An analyst sells a Pro tier. Posts tagged Deep dives are for Pro alone; the rest are for every paying member.

  • Members-only, not paid

    A hiking club keeps trail reports for members who signed up for free, so the list grows before anything is sold.

Questions, answered

How do I make a post for paying members only on PixelGlass?
Open the post's settings in the editor and set Who can read to Paid members only. Readers who do not pay see the title, cover and excerpt, then a way to subscribe.
Can a post be for one tier and not another?
Yes. Choose Specific tiers and tick the tiers whose members read the whole post. A post with no tier ticked is open to every paying member.
Does a comped member read paid posts?
Yes. A comp counts as paying, so a member you comp reads every post for paying members.
Does the paywall work in my own theme?
Yes. The site puts the paywall in place of the post's content for a reader the post is not for, so every theme is gated without a change.
Can my agent lock posts for me?
Yes. An editor's agent changes who can read one post with update_post_settings, or many posts at once with change_posts.

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