How much can I make? Does WordPress really pay per view?

Make money by turning your blog content into a WordPress pay per view site.

Turned off by annoying display ads? Tired of jumping through hoops and joining affiliate programs only to have their terms and commissions change overnight or going out of business all together? 

Well, there are more ways to make money on your WordPress blog than those monetization models. 

How? By turning your blog content into a WordPress pay per view site.

You can either turn part of your content into a pay per view version, where readers pay a fee to read premium content. 

You can also put your entire WordPress blog into a pay per view model as well. You can have a members only access area, where viewers pay for a monthly or yearly subscription for full access to your blog. 

If you have video content, you can also use a pay per view model for access to your video content as well. How?

Through the use of various WordPress plugins that I will go over below. You can either turn your WordPress blog into an entire pay per view site or you can turn parts of it into pay per view access only. 

You can even add a membership area, forum as well as a video section too. All through WordPress and all through the use of WordPress plugins. 

Hey, if the New York Times and other well-known publications can put all their content behind a paywall, why can’t you?

Let’s go over what all this means and how you can turn either your entire WordPress blog into a pay per view model or parts of it through the use of the plugins below.

How to create a pay per view WordPress website.

The best way to create a pay per view WordPress website would be to either keep your current theme or change to a different theme. 

If your current theme does everything you need it to and you like how it looks and functions, then you should keep it. 

But to turn your WordPress website into a pay per view website you will need the help of a few plugins. Below I will give you the most popular and highest rated plugins to do so.

WordPress Pay Per View Plugins.

Below I’ve listed some WordPress pay per view plugins that you can use to turn either your entire WordPress blog into a WordPress pay per view site or you can simply turn parts of your current WordPress website into pay per view sections only. 

You can also add various other features like a forum or a member only section for your WordPress website as well. 

You can charge by view, meaning pay per view certain sections or amounts of content. You can also charge a subscription model to access premium content. 

You can even add a video section where your viewers can pay to access certain premium content videos. 

If you would like to add quizzes, tests, games,  etc., you can also put them behind a pay per view area as well. 

Your WordPress pay per view options are only limited by your imagination. 

So let’s check out the various plugins that you can add to create that WordPress pay per view functionality you’re looking for. 

You will see that WordPress does pay per view and can pay very well indeed If you do it right.

WordPress, “Pay For Post with WooCommerce”.

Sell access to pages, posts and custom post types through WooCommerce with Pay For Post. This plugin basically sells access to a particular page or post through WooCommerce. Here are some more key features of their free plan:

• Restrict content from pages, posts and custom post types based on if they have purchased a specific WooCommerce product.
• Ability to protect a single post or multiple posts with a single product.
• Ability to protect posts with multiple products.
• Simple to use.
• Uses native WooCommerce functionality to ensure future compatibility.
• Global restricted content message which is used for all protected content.
• Utilize any standard WooCommerce shortcodes.

If you would like more advanced features, check out their paid premium version of this plugin. I may be well worth the upgrade.

Here’s a video on how it works:

Memberpress.

Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.

Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system.

Features

• Role Editor: Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.
• Multiple User Roles: Give one, two, or even more roles to any user.
• Explicitly Deny Capabilities: Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.
• Clone Roles: Build a new role by cloning an existing role.
• Content Permissions / Restricted Content: Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content.
• Shortcodes: Shortcodes to control who has access to content.
• Widgets: A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.
• Private Site: You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want.
• Plugin Integration: Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it.

Here are some additional add-ons which come with this free version:

• Block Permissions.
• Privacy Caps.
• Admin Access.
• Core Create Caps.
• Categories and Tag Caps
• Role Levels
• Role Hierarchy.
• EDD Integration: Integrates the Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.
• GiveWP Integration: Integrates the GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.
• Meta Box Integration.
• WooCommerce Integration

Pay Per View Live Stream with the WpStream WordPress Plugin.

WpStream is designed for Live Streaming, Video-On-Demand and Pay-Per-View. 

Choose from an array of monthly streaming plans.

You may stream live directly from the browser or use specialized RTMP broadcast software like OBS, Wirecast, Larix, etc. Moreover, you are not limited to desktop Apps, you can even use your smartphone. 

Complete instructions and video tutorials are available on WpStream’s website and YouTube channel.

Video playback is compatible with all modern browsers and platforms, including mobile. 

Each event you create will have its own pre-made video page and you may also include the player in any webpage of your WordPress site via shortcodes. 

You can set up unlimited channels, unlimited videos, and have unlimited viewers.

Your content is secured. No matter what kind of content you choose to broadcast to your viewers, your data is fully encrypted and that you have full ownership and control over it. 

This highly secure tool gives customers full authority and control over their data. 

Monetize your content by setting up the WooCommerce plugin and turning your live or recorded videos into products and offer them for free, as a one time-purchase or as recurring subscriptions.

WordPress Membership & Content Restriction – Paid Member Subscriptions.

This is a Paid Member Subscriptions plugin.

It offers a complete membership solution, allowing you to accept member payments, manage members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content.

This plugin also integrates with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict product viewing and purchasing to members-only as well as offer special discounted products and pricing based on subscription plans.

You can also use it to set up an Elementor membership site as well.

Features

• CONTENT RESTRICTION.
• MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS.
• HIERARCHICAL SUBSCRIPTION PLANS.
• MEMBERS MANAGEMENT.
• MEMBER EMAILS AND MESSAGES.
• FREE TRIAL AND SIGN-UP FEES.
• REPORTS AND EXPORTS.
• WOOCOMMERCE INTEGRATION.

And much more, especially in the Pro version of this plugin.

WordPress pay per view, how much does it really pay?

As you can see WordPress does offer various pay per view models.

How much you can make through this pay per view monetization approach is entirely up to you and your imagination.  

However, as I have demonstrated above, it can be done. It can also be done quite easily through the use of plugins. 

All you need to do is decide which parts of your blog or all of it, that you want to monetize in a pay per view model. Then download the appropriate plugins as well as set up your payment gateways and you’re good to go.