Connect your WordPress site and your Patreon to increase your patrons and pledges!
Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions! If you would like to add yours to this list, please email email protected. View the source on github. You may also manually refresh the token on the appropriate client in your clients page. Getting access to a Patreon user’s account via OAuth works much the.
With Patreon WordPress, you can bring Patreon features to your WordPress website and integrate them to make them work together. You can even easily start posting patron-only content at your WordPress site and encourage your visitors to become your patrons to unlock your content.
You can lock any single post or all of your posts! You can also lock any custom post type. Your visitors can log into your site via Patreon, making it easier for them to use your site in addition to accessing your locked content.
Read how Lawless French increased their income 50% in just 3 months using Patreon WordPress.
This plugin is developed and maintained by Patreon.
FEATURES FOR CREATORS
Choose one of your tiers or a minimum pledge amount necessary to access a post or custom post
All patrons with pledge at or above that minimum tier will be able to access your post
Visitors who are not your patrons can click the “Unlock with Patreon” button on the locked post to pledge to you and access content
Visitors will be automatically redirected to Patreon, pledge to you and come back to your site to original unlocked post
Plugin will automatically log in Patreon users
Alternatively, you can set a minimum pledge amount to see all posts
Set custom HTML that non-patrons see instead of the post, prompting them to become a patron
You can post entirely independently on your WordPress site from your Patreon page. There is no need for WordPress and Patreon posts to correspond to one another in content or in locked status. The choice is up to you as a creator.
Got ideas? Post them on our Patreon WordPress Ideas Thread
FEATURES FOR PATRONS
This plugin adds a “Unlock with Patreon” button to every post you lock.
“Unlock with Patreon” takes care of everything: whether they’re not yet a patron, need to upgrade their pledge, or already pledging enough, we’ll guide them through the process and back to your content
FEATURES FOR DEVELOPERS
Extend this free basic WordPress plugin with your own inter-operable plugins that install side by side.
Rapidly develop patron-only WordPress features without initial overhead
Immediately usable by existing Patreon creators running this plugin
Learn more in our developer portal.
PRICING
Add User To Wordpress Database
This plugin is provided by Patreon for free.
Install the Patreon WordPress Plugin
Install & activate the plugin
The setup wizard will kick in, helping you to easily connect your WordPress site and Patreon in only two clicks
That’s it!
Your plugin is now set up and you can start making your posts patron only!
Gating Posts
When posting a new post or editing an existing post (or a custom post type) you will see a dropdown in the right hand column titled “Patreon Level”.
This box shows a dropdown of your Patreon tiers. When you select a Patreon tier and then update the post, visitors will need to be your patrons from that tier level or above to be able to access that post.
To make a locked post public again, just choose “Everyone” from the select box and update your post.
Protecting Videos
It is difficult to protect videos due the intensive bandwidth requirements of hosting video and having to rely on third parties such as Youtube or Vimeo. Youtube allows you to set videos to ‘private’ but Vimeo offers extra controls by only allowing videos to be played on specific domains. Visit this guide to protecting your video content with Vimeo.
Installation
Install & activate the plugin
The setup wizard will kick in, helping you to easily connect your WordPress site and Patreon in only two clicks
That’s it!
FAQ
Does it work with any theme?
Patreon WordPress works with any theme.
Does it work with this particular plugin?
Patreon WordPress should not affect functioning of any of your other plugins. Patreon WordPress sticks to WP coding standards and would play nice with any other plugin that does the same.
Does it work with this particular membership plugin?
Yes, you can use Patreon WordPress side by side with any other membership plugin.
Does it work with WooCommerce?
You can easily install and use Patreon WordPress alongside WooCommerce at the same time.
How To Use Patreon
Do my patrons get charged again if they unlock a post on my site?
Your patrons do not get charged again if they unlock any post on your site via the ‘Unlock with Patreon’ button. The plugin just checks if they are qualifying patrons, and if so, it lets them access your content.
Do my posts at my site and Patreon need to be the same?
Not at all – you can post different content totally independently at your site and Patreon.
How To Make A Patreon
Will anything be changed at my site after I install the plugin?
Nothing will be changed at your site – the plugin will just connect your site to Patreon to allow communication in between your site and Patreon.
Reviews
The plugin works as expected and I recommend it to anyone using Patreon as a paywall or as a way to support your art. Real game-changer for me. It's constantly being updated and bugs are being fixed. Good contact with the developers.