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AI THEME BUILDER FOR GHOST - PIXELGLASS

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Bespoke blogs for Ghost®

DITCH YOUR THEMEFOREST THEME<br>MAKE BEAUTIFUL GHOST® WEBSITES THAT SPEAKS TO YOUR READERS

A marketplace template locks your articles into the same layout as a thousand other blogs. PixelGlass builds you a real Ghost blog true to your own style and branding. You reshape any of it just by asking. From $9.99.

feature my best posts up top, then a section for each topic

Get Started<br>Standard Ghost theme. Yours to keep — no lock-in, no subscription.

The problem

Your writing keeps moving. A template doesn't.

The same hero. The same three feature boxes. The same newsletter bar you've seen on fifty other blogs — because it is the one on fifty other blogs. And it's frozen the day you install it: your archive grows, your best work shifts, your topics multiply — but the layout just sits there. Your writing is one of a kind, and it never stops moving. Your blog shouldn't come off a shelf.

How it works

A sentence in. A living blog out.

01<br>Describe it

Type the blog you want in plain words — the look, the sections, the feel. Then keep shaping it by talking. No settings to hunt through.

02<br>Watch it build

PixelGlass writes the Ghost theme and its living sections — featured posts, topic archives, related reads — and you watch them take shape in a live preview beside the chat.

03<br>Keep it

It's a standard Ghost theme, and it's yours — read every file, keep it for good. It runs with or without PixelGlass. No lock-in, no black box.

A prompt, the Handlebars it wrote, and a live preview — on one screen.

Built with PixelGlass

Real, live Ghost sites. Click any one.

Each started as a sentence — open one and poke around before you pay a cent.

Open live ↗

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Why switch

PixelGlass vs. the old way

PixelGlass<br>Marketplace template<br>Custom dev

Price<br>from $9.99<br>~$99<br>$2,000+

Ready in<br>Minutes<br>Minutes<br>Weeks

One of a kind<br>Yes<br>No — sold to thousands<br>Yes, built to order

Redesign by just asking<br>Yes<br>Hire a developer<br>Back to the developer

Yours to keep, no lock-in<br>Yes<br>Yes<br>Yes

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Pricing

Buy credits once. No subscription.

Credits are metered by usage — big asks spend more, quick tweaks spend less. Pay once, use them whenever.

Micro

Try it out. Small tweaks and experiments.

$9.99

18 credits · $0.56 each

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Most popular<br>Maker

Build a full theme and refine it freely.

$24.99

50 credits · $0.50 each

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Studio

One bespoke theme, end-to-end — without watching the meter.

$49.99

110 credits · $0.45 each

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Bulk

Multiple sites at a lower rate each.

$99.99

240 credits · $0.42 each

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Agency

The most credits at the lowest rate each. Buy once, build for ages.

$199.99

520 credits · $0.38 each

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Every pack is a one-time charge — no subscription. Pay once, use your credits whenever.

RL

“I spent 9 years building on Ghost, 3 of them on the core team. Creators love Ghost — they just can't get a blog that feels like them, and moves like them, without paying a developer thousands. PixelGlass is the tool I always wished existed.”

Ronald Langeveld · founder · @ronaldlangeveld

Questions

Answered.

Is this a subscription?

No. You buy a one-time pack of credits — no monthly bill, ever.

What does a credit get me?

Credits are metered by usage: each message to the AI spends credits based on the work it does — a bigger task costs more than a quick tweak, so how far a pack goes depends on how much you build and iterate. Credits only count when the AI does the work — looking around is free.

What makes it a ‘dynamic’ blog and not a template?

A marketplace template is one fixed design, sold to thousands of sites — the layout is the same the day you install it and the day you leave. A PixelGlass blog is built from your own words, with living sections that pull from your real posts: your featured picks up top, an archive for each topic you write about, related reads at the foot of every article — all rendered by Ghost from your live content. And when you want it to work differently, you don't hire anyone — you just ask, and it's rebuilt. Same standard Ghost format; none of the sameness.

Ghost(Pro) and self-hosted?

Both. PixelGlass produces standard Ghost themes that install the normal way (Settings → Design → Upload a theme), on Ghost(Pro) or self-hosted. One-click push to your live site over the Admin API is on the way.

Can I keep my theme if I leave?

Always. It's a standard Ghost theme — Handlebars, CSS, JS — not a locked format. It runs with or without PixelGlass and moves to any Ghost install. No lock-in, ever.

Contact

Got a question? Email me.

Straight to my inbox — no ticket queue, no bot. I read every one.

ronald@pixelglass.co

Life's too short for a template.

Describe the blog you actually want, and watch PixelGlass build it from your own words — not a template. Get started in minutes.

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