SiteSmith

SiteSmith Blog

A blog with members and a newsletter.

Write posts in Workspace and publish them on a SiteSmith address, or on your own domain with a paid plan. Readers can subscribe, comment and pay for a membership.

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What Blog does

Write, publish and grow a readership.

Six themes

Classic, Magazine, Minimal, Newsletter, Cards and Editorial.

Bring your posts

Import from WordPress, Ghost, Medium, Substack, RSS or Atom, a zip of Markdown files or CSV. Export everything as a zip.

Paid memberships

Monthly and yearly prices with a list of perks. Members pay on SiteSmith invoices.

A newsletter

Send a published post to your subscribers and follow the send's progress.

AI writing and autopilot

Writing help in the editor, and autopilot schedules that write posts on the weekdays and hours you pick, in your time zone.

Comments and feeds

Comments from signed-in readers, RSS and JSON feeds, a sitemap, search, tags, series, author pages and an archive.

Make it yours

Redesign Blog around how you work.

Lay out the pages, menus and forms yourself, on the same builder that runs across Workspace. Start from a template or a blank page.

What you can design

Blog admin dashboard

A dashboard and pages of your own for each blog and for all your blogs, with tiles for posts, views, comments, members and newsletters, plus menus you rebuild.

10 dashboard templates

Blog site designer

Design the pages your readers see, with a draft you publish when it's ready.

Plans

Blog has a free tier, and its own plans.

Everyone gets the free tier, with no time limit. Pro and Business are one subscription per account for Blog, separate from Workspace+ and Pro. The limits and prices shown are the current ones.

  • Dashboard tiles drafted by AI from a sentenceWorkspace+
Per accountFreeFreePro$9.99/monthBusiness$14.99/month
Blogs1550
Custom domainsNone550
Authors per blog1550
AI writing requests a month205005,000
AI autopilot schedulesNone325
“Made with SiteSmith” on public pagesShownRemovedRemoved

Good to know

Good to know.

  • Custom domains connect with Domain Connect, or with automatic DNS setup at Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Porkbun and GoDaddy.
  • Several authors per blog, a media library, redirects and stats.
  • Membership payouts are sent by SiteSmith. There's no Stripe Connect.
  • A newsletter goes out once per post. There are no automated email sequences.
  • A blog can also appear at /blog on a website made with Sites.