Are you trying to make money online using your blog? Well, you can now sell access to some of your WordPress posts with the help of a plugin called EasyPaypal.

It involves the creation of users in your WordPress-powered blog...

...and that implies they will each have a special password in order to access certain places in your site. For example, you can password-protect some posts or require your readers to log in first.

Or (and this is my favorite) you can publish a post for public consumption, and hide certain portions or paragraphs for paid subscriber access. This way, non-subscribers can sort of preview your post, get some amount of free information, and then easily pay via Paypal so that they can access the "premium content."

The great part about this is the info is packaged in nice, bite-sized chunks right there on your blog. There are no voluminous ebooks to wade through, or time-zapping 50+ video libraries to vegetate in front of.

You can offer your readers blog posts that, for example, list 7 Ways To Make Profitable Viral Videos, except that items 4 to 7 will be revealed only after your readers pay.

You can also have some kind of Membership Site (complete with Paypal recurring billing), except your members will be billed only when they try to log into your site again in the future.

And where can you get this free plugin?

Head on over to....

[Login Required] Please send $7 for your 30-day access to the Premium Content of this site.

Just kidding! :-)

You'll find the earlier info about the EasyPaypal Plugin in Shannon Whitley's site, and the more current info in Codeplex.com

Anyway, if you're interested in other ways of monetizing your site (I mean, aside from AdSense or affiliate marketing), then try the EasyPaypal plugin today.

UPDATE: There's an error when using EasyPaypal with WordPress 2.5 (please see the screenshot below)

easypaypal-pay-error.jpg If you are trying to sell Subscriptions to your WordPress blog (pretty much similar to a Membership Site), EasyPaypal requires you to create a page called [pay], which will contain the various Subscription Packages, plus a Paypal Buy Now button which allows your subscribers to pay for access.

The problem occurs after logging in. Your subscriber-to-be is brought to the WordPress "Your Profile and Personal Options" page, and the contents of the [pay] page are displayed in between the lines of the Profile page.

In short, people will not be able to read your [pay] page properly. They will have to "View the Site", and then click on the link that leads to your Subscription Packages page.

Anyway, I hope a future release of the EasyPaypal plugin fixes this soon. When I have time, I'll go test it on another version of WordPress.

UPDATE #2: The plugin works with WP version 2.3.3

UPDATE #3: The issue with WP 2.5 is now resolved with EasyPaypal version 3.1 (Thanks, Shannon!)

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"EasyPaypal Plugin | Sell Your WordPress Posts"
First Posted: April 1, 2008 | Filed in: Wordpress

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