Pay Per Post Plugin Description
The Pay Per Post allows you to charge your users a specific amount in order to access restricted pages and posts on your website for a limited time, using your own MicroPayment virtual currency or by making a direct payment.
Post Pay Per ViewAfter you activate the pay per post plugin, a metabox will be added to all of your pages and posts. You can define the pricing plan or duration for that particular page or post. |
Post Page with Subscription Options |
Pricing Plans per article or a group of posts
The pay per post plugin supports unlimited pricing plans which can be divided into several tiers, i.e. granting access for differing length of time. For example, you can charge $1 for 1 day access, or $5 for 10 days access.
Post Per Pay View Subscription PlansYou can also define a pricing plan or subscription service that will apply to a group of posts rather than just a single post. This will enable you want to sell access to a collection of documents instead of just a single one. |
Settings Screen Showing Subscription Settings |
Detecting User Pricing Plan
Once a post is assigned to a pricing plan, the plugin will automatically detect whether users are logged in and whether they have an active subscription to that particular page. If they do, they will see the complete post content.
If they have NOT purchased access to that pricing plan, they will only be able to see selected parts of the post (until the more tag or up to X number of characters defined in the plugin setting), followed by a buy now button showing the different pricing tiers available.
Supporting Micropayment Transactions
Payment can be done using the CM MicroPayment plugin. With the MicroPayment plugin you can define your own virtual currency or use a regular currency.
Supporting Direct Transactions with WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads
With direct payments you don’t have a virtual currency or wallet and the payment goes directly to the payment gateway using Easy Digital Downloads cart system or WooCommerce.
Easy Digital Downloads and WoCommerce support each more then 40 payments gateways including PayPal, Authorize.Net, 2Checkout, Skrill, PayMill, Stripe and many more (check this link for a full list of payment gateways available).
Upon installing the free EDD or WooCommerce cart system plugin you also get the PayPal and Amazon payment option included.
Pay Per View Reporting System
Active Subscriptions ListThe plugin's Admin reporting system shows all active subscriptions and lets you filter subscriptions by pricing plan. |
Showing Admin Dashboard with Active Subscription |
Pay Per Post User Dashboard
Users will be able to see their active subscription services from their dashboard and get notified of the time they have left to view each document.
Using the Pay Per Post Plugin
- Pay Per View Posts – Sell access to specific posts and pages on your site
- Membership and Subscriptions – Sell membership plans to access a group of documents on your site
- MicroPayments Support – Use with your own defined virtual currency or with a standard currency
- Direct Payment Support – Integrate with with Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce to support direct payments for each subscription
- Control Subscription Length – Supports tiered pricing based on lengths of time
Pay per Post Localization and Supported Languages
ALocalizing Plugin FrontendAll frontend labels can be easily changed to any language so the user interface will speak your language. This also includes adjusting the terms used to match your personal use case. |
Settings Screen For Plugin Labels and Messages |
Setting up the Pay Per Post Plugin for WordPress
- Define Pricing Plans – After installing CM Pay-Per-Post, define your pricing plans
- Define Pricing Tiers – Define pricing tiers for each pricing plan
- Select Post – Select the posts and pages you want to include in each pricing plan
- User Dashboard – Add a shortcode into your users’ dashboards to help them view their active subscription
- Manage Subscriptions – Monitor your plugin performance and active subscriptions from the admin panel
Pay Per Post Plugin Image Gallery
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- Shortcode support showing user’s active subscriptions
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- Manually Adding a Subscription to a Post
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- Admin Dashboard of Active Subscriptions
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- Metabox of Pay Per Post Pricing Option in each Page or Post
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- Pay Per Post Plugin Payment Screen
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- Pricing Groups and Pricing Tiers
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- Pay Per Post Labels
Back-end Gallery
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- General-Subscriptions
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- General-Post Types
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- General-Search Engines
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- Pricing
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- Refund
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- Notifications
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- Labels-Pay Box
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- Labels-Subscription
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- Labels-Shortcode
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- Labels-Refund
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- Add Subscriptions
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- Shortcodes
Pay Per Post Online Demo
 | This is a demo which shows how a logged-in user can pay with virtual currency for viewing an article. This is done by also using the MicroPayment plugin. Goto Live Demo |
Pay Per Post Additional Addons and Modules
The following is a list of additional modules and addons which when installed together with the Pay Per Post plugin provide additional functionality
Pay Per Post Related Related Plugins
Pay Per Post Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Is there a way for users to view and track their subscriptions on WordPress?
Yes. Using the shortcode [cmppp-subscriptions] you can let each of your subscribers view exactly which pages and posts they are subscribed to and how much time they have left until their subscription expires. Once you insert this shortcode into the protected page or post, users will be able to see their subscriptions on WordPress frontend, and renew them if needed.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Can I create a subscription plan for specified post groups?
Absolutely. You can create post groups that will be hidden or shown to users depending on their subscription status. Once a user subscribes to a post groups, all posts within the group will become available for viewing.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Can I integrate the Pay Per Post plugin with a WooCommerce shopping cart?
Does this Plugin handle refunds or does this have to be done manually?
Our plugin assists you in managing refunds. Refunds can be processed automatically if the payment method was Micropayments, if they payment was made using EDD or WooCommerce then it will need to be processed manually
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Should I go with EDD/WooCommerce or Micropayments?
That really depends on what you’re going to do, the two payment methods work quite differently
With EDD or WooCommerce the payment is direct. This method is more appropriate if you expect most of your customers will buy one or two posts or on an infrequent basis.
Our Micropayments payment method on the other hand is more geared towards a site that will have regular users. If you think that your visitors will come back a lot and want to access pages or posts regularly it can make sense to use this option. Micropayments will open a virtual wallet for a site user and they can buy points or credits for paying for posts. It is also more useful if you will be selling content or a lower price as you can set a micropayment credit to equal 1c where as such a direct purchase with EDD or WooCommerce wouldn’t make much sense.
Finally Micropayments allows you to gamify your site and distribute credit to users for different things. Completing actions or even just on a recurring basis for staying with the site. This can in some cases be valuable.
To read more about the MicroPayments see the Product page for more details.
Do I miss out on SEO opportunities by hiding content behind a Pay Wall?
To learn how this option is enabled see this Documentation Article