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<p>Bitcoin Lightning Publisher is a Paywall, Donation and Value 4 Value plugin for WordPress to accept instant Bitcoin Lightning payments.<br />
It allows you to monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions and receive payments from your visitors directly to your preferred wallet – no need for expensive service providers.</p>
<p>The plugin is the easiest and most flexible plugin to sell your digital content and to receive donations or Value 4 Value payments.<br />
Using the Bitcoin Lightning Network you can create the best visitor experience with seamless one-click payments.</p>
<p><strong>Benefits for you, the publisher:</strong><br />
– Monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions<br />
– Create custom paywalls according to your needs<br />
– Best and fastest checkout payment experience<br />
– Superior paywall user experience<br />
– Save payment fees by using the inexpensive Bitcoin Lightning Network – no need to payment service providers<br />
– Receive payments directly in your preferred wallet (see “Lightning node connections”)</p>
<p><strong>Benefits for your vistors/customers:</strong><br />
– Seamless one-click payments and quick access to the content<br />
– Global availability – let customers from around the world send you payments through the open Bitcoin payment network</p>
<p><strong>Use Case Examples:</strong><br />
– Accept donations / Value 4 Value payments from your visitors<br />
– Monetize any digital content on your website: Articles, pages, file, videos, music, podcasts<br />
– Receive payments (boosts and boostagrams) from podcasting apps via the Podcasting 2.0 <code>podcast:value</code> RSS standard<br />
– Integrate payments with your website functionality<br />
– many more</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>Paywall to sell content</h3>
<p>Sell any digital content (pay-per-post, pay-per-view, pay-per-download, etc.) with a highly configurable paywall</p>
<ul>
<li>WebLN enabled by default for easy on-click payments</li>
<li>Add a paywall to posts and pages to easily charge for any published content</li>
<li>Crowdfund option: make the content freely available after a certain amount is received</li>
<li>Time-in option: keep the article freely available for a certain time and then enable the paywall after that</li>
<li>Time-out option: make the article freely available after a certain time</li>
<li>Configure the price in Satoshis, EUR, USD, or GBP (with real-time exchange rate)</li>
<li>Configure the paywall with a shortcode ([lnpaywall])</li>
<li>Or configure the paywall with a Gutenberg Block</li>
<li>Integrate with other tools and plugins like membership tools to control if the paywall should be enabled (see Paywall Hook section)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Donation / Value 4 Value payments</h3>
<p>The plugin comes with various options to receive donations and Value 4 Value payments.</p>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block for a donation widget</li>
<li>Donation widget for themes</li>
<li>Enable the Lightning meta tag to allow users to send payments (Value 4 Value)</li>
<li>Enable the <a href="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/value/value.md" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>podcast:value</code> tag</a> in your RSS feed to receive payments for your podcast</li>
</ul>
<h3>Lightning Node connections</h3>
<p>Connect to your existing Bitcoin Lightning node or simply create a new Alby account to instantly receive Lightning payments.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://getalby.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alby</a></li>
<li>LND</li>
<li>LNDHub (e.g. BlueWallet)</li>
<li>LNBits</li>
<li>BTCPay Server</li>
<li>Lightning Address</li>
</ul>
<h3>REST-API for full advanced custom usage</h3>
<p>For more advanced, custom Lightning integrations you can use the REST API to create and verify invoices. The API also provides a LNURL-pay endpoint. See the REST-API section for details.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Refer to the <a href="https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-publisher-wordpress#readme" rel="nofollow ugc">readme on GitHub</a> for documentation and more details on how to use the plugin.</p>
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
<p><strong>Contributing</strong><br />
This plugin is free and open source. We welcome and appreciate new contributions.<br />
Visit the <a href="https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-publisher-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">code repository</a> and help us to improve the plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Donations</strong><br />
Want to support the work on this plugin?<br />
Support the team behind it and send some sats to this Bitcoin Lightning Address hello@getalby.com</p>


Bitcoin Lightning Publisher for WordPress

Bitcoin Lightning Publisher is a Paywall, Donation and Value 4 Value plugin to accept instant Bitcoin payments directly to your favorit wallet.

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<h4>Upgrade to BTCPayWall -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/btcpaywall</h4>
<h3>This plugin will not be maintained any further. We are working on BTCPayWall, which is an up-to-date version of this plugin.</h3>
<p>WordPress Lightning Paywall for BTCPay Server by Coincharge.</p>
<p>Lightning Paywall is a WordPress plugin for publishers to charge for paid content. With the help of WordPress Lightning Paywall plugin you can offer blog posts (pay-per-post), videos (pay-per-view) and download file (pay-per-file), accepting bitcoin payment via Lightning Network.</p>
<p>Pay-per-Post, Pay-per-View and Pay-per-File<br />
Payment per newspaper article, blog post, video or file. Instead of offering its content for free and relying on advertising revenue from banner ads and Google, the WordPress Lightning Paywall offers publishers a viable alternative.</p>
<p>Sell high-quality content to readers willing to pay, who don’t want to subscribe but are willing to pay for a single and high-quality article, video or file.</p>
<p>Publishers can make the dependency on banner ads, Google and clickbait content and focus more on high-quality content that readers are willing to pay for.</p>
<p>With the help of WordPress Lightning Paywall, any WordPress site can be turned into a revenue stream in no time.</p>
<p>Advantages for the reader:</p>
<ul>
<li>No login or registration required</li>
<li>No transmission of personal data (data protection) required</li>
<li>No lengthy subscription if you only want to read a single article, watch a video or download a file</li>
<li>Fast and easy payment via Bitcoin and Lightning</li>
</ul>
<p>Advantages for the publisher:</p>
<ul>
<li>Generate revenue for your high-quality content and make yourself independent of banner ads.</li>
<li>With Lightning Paywall, you can earn money without forcing users to sign up for a monthly membership.</li>
<li>Offer free posts on your blog and especially high-quality posts are offered for a small fee.</li>
<li>Each article has a free part and after a certain point the article becomes chargeable.</li>
<li>Charge for your high quality videos.</li>
<li>Sell any file and offer it to your customers for download.</li>
</ul>
<p>Further information can be found here: https://lightning-paywall.coincharge.io/</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Prices can be set globally or individually for each post, video or file</li>
<li>Availability period of the paid contribution can be set individually</li>
<li>Future-oriented payment method thanks to the use of Bitcoin and Lightning</li>
<li>Use of the BTCPay server for payment processing and thus independent of banks and payment providers</li>
<li>Edit text within the paywall</li>
<li>Invoices overview</li>
<li>Supports Elementor, WPBakery, Gutenberg and Shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Prerequisites</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress installation</li>
<li>BTCPay Server for Bitcoin and Lightning payment processing</li>
<li>An additional WooCommerce installation is not required</li>
</ul>


Lightning Paywall

Upgrade to BTCPayWall -> https://wordpress.org/plugins/btcpaywall

Bitcoin Lightning Publisher for WordPress vs Lightning Paywall