Metered Content for WooCommerce

Metered Content for WooCommerce adds flexible access plans and a publisher-friendly paywall to WordPress.

• Unlimited access plans or a fixed number of unique articles per day, week, month, or year.
• Repeat reads of the same article do not consume another credit in the same period.
• Metered paywall: let readers without a plan open a number of free articles per period before the paywall.
• Restrict individual posts, whole post types, or any category, tag, and custom-taxonomy term.
• Sell plans with ordinary WooCommerce products as fixed-duration passes; buying again extends the pass.
• Automatically recognize active WooCommerce Subscriptions when that extension is installed.
• Refunded or cancelled orders revoke the access they granted.
• Manual grant and revoke from the user profile.
• Hard, partial-preview, and metered paywall presentations.
• Shortcodes for partial-content protection, remaining usage, and pricing.
• A WooCommerce My Account screen with plan usage and reading history.
• Registration wall: visitors who run out of free articles are asked to create a free account for more, before being asked to pay.
• Gift links: members share a link that opens one premium article for anyone, with a monthly limit and an expiry.
• Expiry reminder e-mails before and after a pass expires, managed as WooCommerce e-mails.
• Reports: reads, paywall views, sign-ups and purchases started at a paywall, attributed revenue, gift usage, top articles and active passes.

Notes

• Guests must create an account when the cart contains a plan product, because access is attached to the account. Filter wcmc_require_account_for_plans to disable this; guest orders are then granted once WooCommerce links them to an account.
• Metered free reads for visitors are tracked in a signed cookie, and metered premium pages are excluded from page caching (DONOTCACHEPAGE plus no-cache headers).
• Only users with the manage_options capability (filter wcmc_manage_capability) can manage plans, settings and manual grants.
• Reports count paywall views on article pages that are not served from a full-page cache; hard-paywall pages for visitors may be cached and undercounted.
• Gift tokens are signed with the site salts; changing the salts invalidates outstanding gift links.

Shortcodes

[wcmc_premium_content plan="pro,unlimited"]Protected content[/wcmc_premium_content]

[wcmc_subscriber_only]Visible to members[/wcmc_subscriber_only]

[wcmc_non_subscriber_only]Visible to visitors without a plan[/wcmc_non_subscriber_only]

[wcmc_remaining_articles]

[wcmc_pricing_table]<h3>Hooks</h3>

Filters: wcmc_access_result, wcmc_restriction, wcmc_paywall_args, wcmc_paywall_html, wcmc_teaser_text, wcmc_plans_url, wcmc_bypass_paywall, wcmc_should_meter_visitor, wcmc_require_account_for_plans, wcmc_manage_capability, wcmc_supported_post_types, wcmc_active_subscription_statuses, wcmc_reads_retention_days, wcmc_enqueue_frontend_style, wcmc_can_gift, wcmc_gift_box_html, wcmc_gift_notice_html.

Actions: wcmc_plan_granted, wcmc_plan_revoked, wcmc_read_recorded, wcmc_visitor_read_recorded, wcmc_paywall_rendered, wcmc_order_granted, wcmc_gift_created, wcmc_event_logged.