Frequently asked questions
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What does Pagecord mean?
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How does Pagecord work?
Create an account by choosing a subdomain for your blog and supplying your email address. Verify your email, then your blog is live at yourname.pagecord.com. Premium subscribers can connect a domain name of their own.
Write posts in the editor, or publish from wherever you already write. Every account gets a private delivery address, so anything you email to it becomes a post. You can also publish from Obsidian, iA Writer, the command line, or the API.
Read the Getting Started guide
Do I own the content that I post?
Yes. As long as what you post is your own work, you own it (posting copyrighted material that you don't own is a no-no). Pagecord does not claim ownership of any content you post.
Does Pagecord support RSS?
Yes. Just append /feed.xml to any blog's domain, e.g. https://blog.pagecord.com/feed.xml
Is my blog good for SEO?
Yes. Every blog gets a sitemap at /sitemap.xml that updates itself as you publish, and a robots.txt that points search engines to it. Pages are server-rendered and fast, with clean readable URLs, canonical link tags, structured data, Open Graph and Twitter cards for social previews, and an RSS feed.
Per post you can set the slug, and a canonical URL if the post was first published somewhere else. Per blog you can set an SEO title and a Google Search Console verification code.
Pagecord doesn't submit your posts to Google – no platform can force indexing – but the sitemap means you don't have to submit anything by hand either. Verify your blog in Search Console once and Google will crawl it from there.
Learn more about SEO & discovery
Can I import my blog from another platform?
Yes, but it's not self-serve. Contact support and we'll look into it for you. We've already done this from WordPress, Ghost, static sites and others. A premium subscription is required to proceed with an import.
What is your refund policy?
For annual subscriptions, we'll refund your money if you've been a subscriber for less than a month. No questions asked (although we'd love to know why you didn't like it). Monthly subscriptions are non-refundable.
Can I change my subscription plan?
Monthly subscribers can upgrade to annual at any time from the billing settings page. You'll be charged a prorated amount for the remaining time on your monthly plan.
To switch from annual to monthly, let your annual subscription run out and then resubscribe on the monthly plan.
How much can I upload on the free plan?
Classic, the free plan, includes 20 uploads across everything you write. Images and audio both count towards it. Your avatar doesn't count, and neither do images you embed from a URL elsewhere on the web.
A post that takes you past 20 is still saved in full – it's the next upload that's refused. Nothing is ever deleted or hidden, and the count goes down again if you remove an image from a post. Video needs Premium, which also has a much bigger allowance.
What does the free trial include?
New accounts get a 14 day trial of the premium features that are yours to use straight away: analytics, writing your own custom CSS and footer, reply by email, the embeddable contact form and API access. Custom domains and email subscribers need a paid subscription rather than a trial, and uploads follow the free allowance of 20 during the trial.
When the trial ends, nothing you've made is taken away. Your posts, pages, themes, custom CSS, footer and every upload carry on exactly as they are, though you'll need a subscription to edit the CSS and footer again. What stops is the ongoing work: analytics, the API, the contact form and reply by email. The small Pagecord logo returns to the bottom of your blog.
How many email subscribers are included?
Pagecord Premium includes up to 250 email subscribers.
If you need more, contact support and we'll sort out a larger allowance for an additional fee.
Where is my data stored?
Pagecord is hosted on servers run by Hetzner, in their Falkenstein, Germany data centre. Your blog posts are stored in a managed Postgres database, run by Ubicloud in the same region. Anything you upload to your posts is stored in Cloudflare's R2 Object Storage, in their Western Europe (WEUR) data centre. Database backups are also stored in R2.
Pagecord traffic is proxied through Cloudflare to provide additional security and performance benefits for our customers who come from all corners of the globe.