👨‍🚀Features & requirements

Features

Paywall to sell content

Sell any digital content (pay-per-post, pay-per-view, pay-per-download, etc.) with a highly configurable paywall

• WebLN enabled by default for easy on-click payments

• Add a paywall to posts and pages to easily charge for any published content

• Crowdfund option: make the content freely available after a certain amount is received

• Time-in option: keep the article freely available for a certain time and then enable the paywall after that

• Time-out option: make the article freely available after a certain time

• Configure the price in Satoshis, EUR, USD, or GBP (with real-time exchange rate)

• Configure the paywall with a shortcode ([lnpaywall])

• Or configure the paywall with a Gutenberg Block

• Integrate with other tools and plugins like membership tools to control if the paywall should be enabled (see Paywall Hook section)

Donation/Value4Value payments

The plugin comes with various options to receive donations and Value 4 Value payments.

• Gutenberg block for a donation widget

• Donation widget for themes

• Enable Value 4 Value tags for your website and feeds:

• Enable the Lightning meta tag to allow users to send payments (Value 4 Value)

• Enable the podcast:value tag in your RSS feed to receive payments for your podcast

Lightning Node connections

Connect to your existing Bitcoin Lightning node or simply create a new Alby account to instantly receive Lightning payments.

• Alby

• LND

• LNDHub

• LNBits

• BTCPay Server

• Lightning Address

Requirements

• WordPress 5.6 or higher

• PHP 7.4 or higher (with internationalization functions)

Look through the next few pages of our guides for some simple instructions on how to set up various paywalls and widget donations.