pay per view
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I would like to blog my autobiography, is there a way to do this so people have to pay to read it?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
You need to monetize your blog.
There are number of different ways to monetize your blog like Simple Payments or WordAds. However both of these features require at least the Premium Plan.For detailed information regarding this please visit below link
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
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Hi there, hope you don’t mind me adding something to this discussion. This is the ideal situation for creating a “membership” site. First you create a site for teasers and signing up with payment and then create a second site which is Private and by invite only for your paid subscribers. You can learn more about that in this tutorial here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/
Let us know if you have any other questions after reading that tutorial.
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Ah, perfectly clear now on how to go about it. Doubt it will be economically viable for me though.
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Doubt it will be economically viable for me though.
Hello again, in case it isn’t clear, it’s entirely possible to do this using 2 *free* sites (one Publicly visible and the other Private) and PayPal as your payment processor. No cost to you other than processing fees from PayPal.
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Wow, thanks again as I just assumed (and you know what that makes me) that I would need at least a personal paysite, however, on a second careful read I see that is not correct. My ‘puter skills being just one step above finding the on/off mode it will take a while but I’ll slog through it. :)
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Hi justjennifer, I’ve run into a snag with the CNAME thing, it appears I need to purchase a domain name for $13 for the subdomain. Is this correct or am I missing a step?
Dave
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Hello again Dave, You can skip that entire bit about domain and subdomain in the support guide. I’ll try to outline here the steps for using 2 free sites as briefly as I can:
1. Create your first free site (Public site-Site A), let’s say “rancholasbrisas.wordpress.com,” and have that site your Primary site in your profile (and linked to your username) and make your site visibility Public, open to search engines.
2. Create a second free site (Private site-Site B), let’s say “rancholasbrisassubscription.wordpress.com” and make that site visibility Private, https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ only available to users you invite, i.e. the people who have paid their subscription fee to access it. Here you’ll publish the full content of your autobiography.
On your Public site you’ll post an intro and regularly post “teasers” of what it is you are making available on your Private site. If you are writing a book, you might consider from time to time publishing a few pages of a chapter. Search engines love regularly posted, new content, and you want to keep them happy too.
On your Public site you’ll also post your PayPal link https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ so that people can subscribe to your full paid content. (Where you post that PayPal link is up to you; I’d suggest at the end of each teaser as well as in the sidebar or widget area of your site.)
Once a person has paid their subscription fee on PayPal, you can then invite them as a Viewer to your Private site using the email address they indicate. https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ It’s best to have them use the email address associated with their WordPressdotcom account, otherwise they will have to create a WordPressdotcom account in order to access your Private site.
That’s it in a large-ish nutshell. Let me know if this is clear or feel free to ask me anything else.
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Wow, thanks for the explanation
I now have the sites created, just a couple of minor glitches, I have my link to PayPal, however, when I click on the ‘personalize’ sidebar I can find no place to post it.
Also in the tutorial section 4 on linking my two sites is as clear as mud, I am at a complete loss there, is it even needed?
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Hello again, You’re welcome. :)
The theme you are using on your Public site “Independent Publisher2” isn’t sidebar friendly. The widget area of this theme is in the footer.
You could also add that PayPal link to a separate Subscription page and add the page to your navbar using a Custom Menu. If you add that Subscription page link to the end of each teaser on your Public site, that will also give the readers a quick link to click through to subscribe.
As far as adding a link to the Member’s only website, anyone clicking on the link who isn’t a logged in subscriber will be met with a Private site gateway page. However, you can add it as a Custom Link to the Custom Menu.
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OK, just one final question that I neglected to add to the last post then I shall stop bothering you.
It appears that anyone wishing to access the private site must have a WordPress site, is this correct or do they only have to provide me with their email? -
You aren’t bothering me. I’m happy to help.
You are correct. Anyone wishing access to a Private site on WordPress.com must have a WordPress.com account. That is the only way access to a Private site can be controlled.
Keep in mind that any website with a paid subscriber base requires its users to log in to access subscriber-only content. In that regard your Private WordPress.com website is no different.
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Thanks again for the clarification, seems like a reasonable way of keeping the tire-kickers and trolls at bay.
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One last question, my book which I plan to blog with a chapter weekly has around 142,000 words contained in 50 chapters with lots of links to other sources a few Youtube links plus over 1,000 photos.
Any tips on making it reader plus downloadable friendly?
Thanks
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Hi Dave, give me some time over the weekend to ponder that. I may not have a quick reply for you.
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Thanks, no rush, this project has been ongoing for the better part of two years now. That’s why it’s titled ‘I Did it My Way’
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I’m sure that @justjennifer will be able to give you some great pointers, but in the meantime, I just wanted to share some of my suggestions.
That’s a lot of content! You can include it all in one blog post (the limit is 4,294,967,295 characters long for a single post), but you’re right in saying that such a large amount of content might not be user-friendly, based on load times and ease of accessibility.
My recommendation is to use Pagination to split up your content, perhaps into chapters? That would give you an effect like this, and you could always post a link at the end of one page to the next page: https://prnt.sc/lj9509
For a site with thousands of images, it may be worth considering optimising images, although that could be a pain not worth doing with such a large scale of images: https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
Other ways on splitting a large amount of content can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/
Thanks! :)
@justjennifer Hope you don’t mind me adding this in. :)
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