Wordpress Supporter Plugin
Supporter allows you to create your own profitable blog network, like https://www.tradebit.com or https://www.tradebit.com.
Offer your users the chance to upgrade their blogs and acdcess features like premium themes, plugins, extra storage, domain mapping or removing advertising.
You can charge monthly, multi-monthly or annually and set up subscriptions through PayPal and Amazon with more gateways coming shortly.
And it works too! We know because we developed it for the oldest and one of the most successful WPMU sites on the web - Edublogs - and its working great there.
Check out Supporter in action...
https://www.tradebit.com
Supporter allows you to create your own profitable blog network, like https://www.tradebit.com or https://www.tradebit.com.
Offer your users the chance to upgrade their blogs and acdcess features like premium themes, plugins, extra storage, domain mapping or removing advertising.
You can charge monthly, multi-monthly or annually and set up subscriptions through PayPal and Amazon with more gateways coming shortly.
And it works too! We know because we developed it for the oldest and one of the most successful WPMU sites on the web - Edublogs - and its working great there.
So what does this plugin do exactly?
Well, essentially it allows you to offer and charge for premium features or use of your WPMU or BuddyPress site - collecting either subscriptions or single payments in return.
Users have an extra menu item under Appearance, namely ‘Premium Themes’ (they’ll also see it under their new ‘Supporter’ menu).
Under this menu they will be able to see a whole heap of gorgeous themes.
They’ll be able to preview how their blog would look with each lovely theme.
But they’ll only be able to actually use them if they sign up.
Premium Plugins
And we didn’t just stop at themes… we decided to do the same for plugins too!
As site admin it’s now completely simple for you to make Plugins ‘Supporter only’ – and even allow for some plugins to be free, and others to be only for Supporters.
Just select from the plugins you have installed on your site, choose which ones you want to be ‘Premium’ and voila!
Your users can now pay for functionality as well as themes.
If we were to go on and on about every feature in this plugin wed never stop - so heres a brief overview of just some of the other features youll find in Supporter:
* You can rename Supporter to whatever you want… for example, ‘Pro’ or ‘Plus’ or ‘Premium’ :)
* A fancy payment screen that points out how much people save if they subscribe for longer periods
* Stunningly gorgeous reporting graphs and pie charts so you can track how your subscriptions are going
* Brilliant and powerful individual blog modification tools
* Increase storage space for paid up supporters
* Bulk upgrades so that you can offer batches at a heavy discount - very popular at Edublogs!
* Tab positioning right up the page (so it becomes more prominent)
* Google Analytics for Supporters integration (supporters can get analytics if they sign up)
* ‘Turn off Ads’ facility so you can display ads which are automatically turned off for supporters
* Ability for supporters to turn off ads *and* turn on Premium themes (if you choose) on other blogs (for example - a teacher for students)
* If you wish, disable the Write Post and Write Page pages on non-supporter blogs (i.e. you must be a supporter to blog)
* Limit remote publishing through XML-RPC or Atom to current supporters only!
* A nice widget badge people can have if they are a supporter, to show their friends :)
* A global widget that you can use on the front page of your site to display an honor roll of supporters of your site
* Allows you to provide a free trial period of supporter features to new blogs
* Sandpit option for you to test out PayPal and Amazon payments
* Ability to customize (html ok) all the messages that appear around the site describing supporter and asking users to become supporters
Released under the GPL license